The Bombay high court on Friday permitted a woman to terminate her 30-week pregnancy. The 33-year-old woman, from Nashik, told the court that the medical reports of the foetus showed that it had developed schizencephaly, a morbid condition incompatible with normal life often resulting in complete disability. Upon her request to terminate the pregnancy, a […]
The Indian government has launched the world’s largest publicly funded health insurance scheme, ‘Ayushman Bharat’- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana -also dubbed as ‘Modicare’ on Sunday, 23rd September. The scheme is set to cover some 500 million poor people around the country. It promises a health cover worth 5 lakh rupees per family per year […]
India is a country were the heart diseases account for 1.7 million lives annually. Usually, the patients are subjected to undergo several diagnostic tests. This rural doctor wants to revive the bygone art of diagnosing the cardiac problems by merely taking a closer look at the patient. Dr Himmatrao Bawaskar, who practices in Mahad, which […]
An analysis of the helpline calls in Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) reveals that one of the main reasons for stress among the resident doctors were seeing patients dying or those on the verge of dying. Though the NGO’s and some selected government bodies set up helplines, PGIMER started an in-house crisis […]
India’s under-five mortality rate has been recorded the same as global average, for the first time, according to a report by UNICEF, WHO, UN Population Division and the World Bank Group. It has been estimated that in 2017, the sex-specific under-five mortality rate was 39 per 1,000 live births for boys and 40 per 1,000 […]
‘DNB qualifications of a candidate who have done their course from 500 bedded hospitals will be considered equivalent to MD in all respects,’ clarified the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Earlier, this has been limited for only those DNB candidates who have completed their course from MCI recognized medical colleges. The latest declaration […]
Pneumonia is one of the leading cause of death among the infants in the world. Last year only, pneumonia claimed the lives of 9,20,000 children under the age of five. It’s the result of a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection in the lungs, which causes pus to build up in the alveoli, the oxygenation agents […]
The Union Health Ministry has decided to ban 328 combinations of medicines, according to the reports. The decision has been taken following the recommendations by its technical advisory body over a month ago. The implementation of the ban could possibly cut off Rs1,500 crore from India’s Rs 1.18-lakh crore pharmaceutical industry and would impact medicine […]
A study on the comparison of the costs of cardiac procedures in seven Asian countries shows that most procedures in India were costlier than many other countries, including South Korea, whose per capita income is five times higher than India. Based on the reports by Times Of India, the study found that India had the […]
Despite being one of the largest economies in the world, India still struggles when it comes to the healthcare sector. India, a growing hub of medical tourism were lacking a universal policy of patient rights. Now, the union health ministry has decided to implement a ‘charter of patient rights’, which explains the freedom for patients […]