Dr Shankare Gowda is known as the ‘Five rupees doctor’- an epithet which he ought to wear with pride given how well-earned it is. For the doctor who hails from Shivalli in Karnataka is someone who treats patients for just 5 rupees. And that’s not the extent of the man’s humanitarianism- he treats around 150 […]
According to WHO’s Global Burden of Disease study, every fifth person likely suffers from some type of pain. However, medical sector comes under criticism for failure to treating pain seriously. By some estimates, chronic pain-defined as pain which lasts for over three months affects some 10% of the global population. Due to lack of reliable […]
It was the deadly disease that he has- thalassemia major-which inspired Rohan Jobanputra to become a doctor. The 22 year old from Ahmedabad passed the exam this week, all the while struggling with the disease. Many people advised him to choose a job which someone with the disease could comfortably do. Evidently, the man has […]
A letter that was allegedly written by a doctor working in the Srinagar Medical College to the MCI has irked the college authorities. In the letter, the doctor- who is a faculty member of the college urged the MCI to cancel the college’s affiliation until the conditions improve. But instead of taking any positive measures […]
Faced with extraordinary issues like manpower crunch and infection control, the critical care sector in India still does a great job of saving lives. A recent article that appeared in the Indian magazine, The Week points out this often overlooked aspect of our healthcare sector. Some of the aspects that the article try to draw […]
Amidst ‘suggestions’ from the union minister of women and child development, Maneka Gandhi regarding the ‘racket’ in C-section deliveries, doctors are strongly criticizing the minister’s comments. ‘Government’s move will eventually harm doctors’ Speaking to the Hindustan Times, Punjab based gynaecologist, Dr Geetanjali Arora mentioned that the minister’s comment ends up trying to breach the foundation […]
A Mizoram MLA performed a doctor’s duty on Wednesday by doing an emergency surgery on a women, since the surgeon at the hospital was away. Dr K Beichhua, the MLA is an MBBS graduate from the Regional Medical College in Imphal. He decided to perform the operation when he least that the surgeon at the […]
Dr B.C Roy has had many things to distinguish him- from being West Bengal’s Chief Minister to one of Gandhi’s physicians. But none of these things prevented him from what he termed as ‘an example of the American caste system.’ In July 1947, the doctor was visiting the USA. When he, along with five others […]
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare conducts the ‘Mera Aspataal’ (“My Hospital”) survey every year to collect patient’s feedback about government hospitals. In this year’s survey, of the 22% patients who said they were dissatisfied with their experience with AIIMS, the major reason was staff behavior. Although this pertains to just one hospital, doctor’s […]
For a country where malnourishment and lack of access to health centers are as much a part of reality as cows roaming in the busy streets, India has a notoriously low budget allocation for healthcare- around 1.3 percent of its GDP. The ones that are hardest hit by this apathy are the ones who live […]