31 year old Dr Rohan Mhamukar who was assaulted by patient’s kin on Sunday in Dhule, Maharashtra has reached his Mumbai home, seeking treatment for the grave injuries he sustained. “I wish I had taken up engineering instead of medicine. I qualified for both courses,” said the doctor. Dr Rohan is to meet the dean […]
Dr Rohan Mamunkar, an orthopaedic surgeon was brutally assaulted by family members of a patient when he asked them to take the patient to another centre as there was no neurosurgeon on duty. The gory incident took place at the Government Medical College in Dhule, Maharashtra on Sunday night. It’s said that the patient was […]
The death of three people who were connected to different dialysis machines due to similar causes in around the same time has left doctors baffled. The incident took place in a hospital in Puducherry. Nephrologists are of the opinion that death of patients on dialysis because of power fluctuations is ‘nearly impossible.’ The equipment for […]
Indian doctors said that the 37 year old Egyptian – said to be the world’s heaviest woman-has undergone successfully a weight-loss surgery after losing more than 100 kilograms. The woman, Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty previously weighed about 500 kilograms. She has never left her house in Egypt for more than two decades. She arrived […]
A host of leading doctors from across India came together in Mumbai last month for a three-day meet where they proposed solutions to the high cost of medical care which is prohibitively high for the majority of Indians. High volume and low cost One major concern that the doctors expressed was over the increasingly commercial […]
Instance 1 At a rally during the recent UP election campaign, the PM, Narendra Modi became vocal about how his government has massively slashed the prices of stents. According to him, the decision would help the poor with heart ailments a lot. The stents which were earlier sold at Re. 45,000 now come at just […]
When Dr. Zarir Udwadia wrote a letter to a medical journal regarding patients in Mumbai suffering from an non-treatable form of TB, he hoped it would move authorities to heighten the fight against the disease. However, what happened was that the Indian government came out with a backlash, landing the Mumbai based doctor in controversy. […]
An overwhelming 5,070 gallstones were removed from a 45 year old man at a hospital in Rajastan’s Kota. The news is making headlines in many a mainstream media. The patient, Mohammad Shabbir is a grocery shop owner who has been suffering from stomach pains for the last three years. It was in mid-February that he […]
A study reveals that medical students and trainee doctors make up over half of all the injuries made by pricks from infected needles in hospitals. Aside from being overworked, these doctors and students don’t get vaccinated against diseases which could be transmitted through infected blood. The dangers of such injuries and the health risk that […]
The government said on Thursday that 4,000 Post Graduate medical seats have been approved in different medical colleges and hospitals for the 2017-18 academic session. The government has termed the number a record in medical academics till date. As of now, the total number of PG seats available in the country is 35,117. “In a […]