Resident doctors in India may get a hardship allowance! According to the latest data by the health ministry officials, Resident doctors in India may get a hardship allowance of Rs 5,000-Rs 7000 for risking infections from needle-prick wounds or cuts suffered while treating patients. As per the records, the Union health ministry has approved the […]
Image used for representational purpose only. Around 30% of the faculty who teaches first and second-year medical students of the medical colleges doesn’t have MBBS degree themselves, reveals a presentation given to the Board of Governors (BOG), which replaced the Medical Council of India (MCI) as the country’s apex regulatory body for medical education. The […]
The state health department of Uttar Pradesh has proposed to raise the retirement age of government doctors to 70 years. The government has taken this move citing the shortage of doctors. The retirement age of doctors at present is 62 years. “If politicians can work till the age of 75 then doctors who are healthy […]
For the first time in India, a team of doctors at Delhi Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has performed the catheter-based procedure of MitraClip to repair a leaking heart valve without surgery. Mitral valve is the valve connecting two chambers of the left side of the heart that receives impure blood from all over the body […]
The students graduating from the medical colleges in the country from 2019, will not only turn out to be good clinicians but also they’ll be good communicators. India has revised its medical curriculum after a gap of 21 years. The MCI Board of Governors on Friday finalised the new undergraduate curriculum that acknowledges the importance […]
A specialised course for doctors and hospital staff focusing on how a critically ill or injured patient should be handled could bring down the rate of death due to medical negligence by 50%, claim the experts. A study by the Harvard University last year showed that nearly 50,00,000 deaths occur in India annually due to […]
In a Bihar hospital, a shocking incident has taken place where it clearly shows the carelessness of the health system. In a bizarre incident, a stray dog took away the amputated leg of a patient from a government hospital. The incident which ‘portrays’ the ‘health’ of hospital ironically took place at Buxar, the Lok Sabha […]
Indian Drug Advisory Board will soon take up a proposal for an independent registry to track implantable medical devices that could pose a risk to patients. According to two health ministry officials, the advisory board is likely to set up a national registry in its next meeting which is scheduled for 27th November. The proposal […]
Medical Doctors would not be essential for running a basic pathology lab in the country, according to the latest provisions confirmed by the health ministry. The Director of NHM, Ministry of Health have sent a confirmation for the policy directing all of the states to enforce the stated provisions. The provision for such a policy […]
After a successful uterus transplant, a woman from Vadodara has given birth to a baby girl. The baby girl was born prematurely, almost 32 weeks into the pregnancy at 12.12am on Thursday. She weighed 1,450 grams at birth. The woman from Vadodara had undergone uterus transplant 17 months ago in Pune’s Galaxy Care Hospital. She […]