Acknowledging the complaints from Chemists association, the Drug Licencing Authority(DLA) of Meerut division has warned doctors operating out in the private clinics and the nursing homes in the six districts under its jurisdiction against selling medicines under the veil of ‘dispensing medicines’. The order directs the drug inspectors of all the six districts under the […]
Decoding some doctor’s handwriting is the most nerve-wracking task for the patients, their attendants or sometimes for other doctors. It is a fact that most of the general public couldn’t understand the prescriptions. What some doctors write on the prescriptions, either they or the pharmacists could apprehend it. A patient can understand nothing but some […]
Sariful Alam was on his way to college from home at Sylhet in Bangladesh when he met with an accident. He was a final year MBBS student when the fate played this game on him in 1995. Alam had multiple injuries in the accident with fractures of two major bones, including the right arm and […]
The Chennai city-based doctors have carried out an innovative technique called ‘pinhole pupilloplasty’ which is aimed to correct the vision of patients with astigmatism. The doctors have sutured up the iris, the coloured part of the eye to reduce the size of the pupil to a pinhole. The technique has helped ten people with astigmatism, […]
In three separate cases, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad Court has imposed a fine of Rs. 5000 each on three doctors for illegible handwriting. The accused doctors are Dr PK Goel of Sitapur, Dr TP Jaiswal of Unnao and Dr Ashish Saxena of Gonda. The injury reports of the victims of three criminal cases that […]
Image: ANI Rural Healthcare is still struggling to provide all the facilities at its best to the people. Shortage of staff, medical equipment, medicines are few among the many problems which rural India still finds it hard to meet. But the doctors in the hospital of Odisha’s Mayurbhanj demands something basic. Electricity. These doctors in […]
Emergency care is vital in the case of accident victims. In such a situation, while a person stands between the line of life and death, even the slightest emergency care can make a difference. A group of doctors and tech specialists from Karnataka are joining hands to launch a ‘saviour campaign’. The campaign is intended […]
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 […]
For the first time in India, the surgeons of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi, Kerala have successfully operated a fetus in the womb. The surgery was conducted on a 21-week-old fetus to correct the urine flow which was damaging its kidney. Doctors discovered the damage to the kidney of the fetus when the […]
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 […]