Multiple instances of assault Following the death of a seven year old girl, her relatives claimed negligence, attacked the doctors and vandalized Apollo Hospital, Bannerghatta Road in Bangalore on Wednesday. The relatives attacked five doctors and ransacked the ICU. The girl was admitted after Tuesday midnight with symptoms of fever, headache and vomiting. The hospital […]
At around 1 AM Thursday, docs from Bengaluru travelled to Tamil Nadu with an ailing patient who required liver transplant. The donor, who was declared brain dead on Wednesday after he suffered head injuries in a crash, was from Erode in TN. The docs from Manipal Hospital travelled with the patient in a Karnataka-registered ambulance […]
The idea of a personal tragedy leading to something that’s to the advantage of the society isn’t limited to fiction. At least, that’s what the story of how Advanced Trauma Life Support(ATLS) came into being shows: The year 1976 turned out to be tragic for Dr.Jin Styner. In that year, the American orthopedic surgeon crashed […]
To revive the fading touch of the family physician, the Medical Council of India(MCI) steps into the picture MCI has decided to initiate an MD course in family medicine An official statement to this effect was made by Dr H S Ballal, Pro Chancellor, Manipal University, Karnataka Dr Ballal said that the decision was made […]
The MCI has given approval to three new medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh These colleges will start functioning with academic sessions for the year 2016-17 The three colleges come under the jurisdiction of NTR University of Health Sciences at Vijawawada The colleges are: Gayathri Vidya Parishad Institute of Medical Care and Health Technology at Marikavalasa, […]
The new bill drafted by NITI Aayog has come under criticism from the Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH) Some key points the doctors raised include: The bill promotes accelerated privatization and commercialization of medical education By proposing that for-profit entities be allowed to start and run medical colleges, the bill legalized profiteering in […]
With no provision for promotions, rural doctors are said to retire in the same post they joined in The Rural Medical Officers(RMO) cadre was created by the Punjab government in 2006, so that doctors would be available in rural Punjab The RMOs get neither promotion nor do they merit a quota in PG studies. However, […]
There seems to me no abatement in the number of dengue and chikungunya cases in Delhi. The upswing in numbers has seen the doctors-lesser in number struggling to find time for all the patients. The central zone of South Delhi Municipal Corporation is the worst affected this year Special “camps” have been set up in […]
Faced with mounting allegations against MCI, the council’s president Dr Jayshree Mehta defends the council, saying the body was not ‘given a reasonable opportunity’ to present their side of the story. Some of the things she said in this regard are: The negative attention which fell on the council is unfair. Though time was sought […]
Two hospitals in Orlando, Florida have decided not to bill the survivors of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting. The Orlando Health and Florida Hospital will write off bills of about Rs.36.8 crore for the injured. The health insurers who provide coverage for those treated by Orlando Health will receive bills. But the hospital will write […]