Government doctors have met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to demand for a revision of the recommendations made by the 7th Pay Commission. The representatives of Joint Action Council of Service Doctor Organization(JACSDO) and the Federation of Resident Doctors Association(FORDA) met the Minister on June 20. The demands were raised mentioning that the recommendations of the […]
The government doctors in Punjab are expressing their distress about recruiting doctors under the Punjab Civil Medical Services on just the basic pay. In this regard, the state body of the Punjab Civil Medical Services Association(PCMSA) has said that a state level protest rally will be held against the government today at Jalandhar. The decision […]
Aiming to make cancer care accessible to those in rural districts, the Maharashtra State government, with Tata Memorial Hospital(TMH) unveiled on Thursday the ‘affordable cancer care for all’ project. It’s hoped that the project would help reduce the incidence of preventable cancer forms. The project comes at a time when rural patients come all the […]
More than 21,700 packets containing fake blood plasma were seized by the counter-intelligence department of the Bathinda Police on Tuesday. The contents of the packets would amount to about 7,600 litres. Related to this, five individuals who are associated with different city hospitals were arrested. Two of them are Dlibagh Singh, the chief lab attendant […]
Dismissing a complaint from a deceased patient’s widow, the National Commission observed that a physician is free to choose whom to serve except in case of an Emergency. The Commission also mentioned that it’s in the interest of both doctors and patients that such cases aren’t unnecessarily dragged to the Court. The compliant based on […]
Doctors at Hindu Rao Hospital in North Delhi have gone on an indefinite strike over non-payment of salaries for the past 3 months! Hindu Rao Hospital that caters to over 1,000 out patients daily is one of 6 hospitals run by the North Delhi corporation which is facing a deficit of Rs 300 crores. This […]
India needs a standardized unified healthcare system, to reduce the gap between the ‘quality’ of healthcare the rich and the poor are getting. Bihar People’s Health Movement and National Sample Survey have come across shocking data such as – average cost per admission at a government hospital costs 7 times the monthly income, instances of ghost […]
58 districts will have new medical colleges set up, leading to 5,800 fresh MBBS seats in India. This was the statement made to the Parliamnet by Health Minister JP Nadda. These colleges would be established under the centrally sponsored scheme for ‘Establishment of Medical Colleges attached with existing District/Referral hospitals.’ “In the first phase, total 58 […]
Over 1,000 people, including 350 infants, may have been exposed to tuberculosis in the maternity wing of a hospital in California after an active case of the disease was diagnosed in a nurse, hospital officials said on Sunday. The hospital said it was notified only in mid-November that an employee who worked in the area […]
Medical Council of India (MCI) has announced that it will no longer be making public the minutes of any of its ethics committee meetings. These are the meetins where medical negligence cases and cases of professional misconduct by doctors are heard. No minutes from ethics committee metings have been uploaded to the MCI website since […]