The hospital that Dr.Ganesh Rakh started in 2007 in Pune delivers girl babies for free. This is done as part of the doctor’s effort to reverse Indian’s preference for male children. As Dr Rakh said to reporters, “As a medical professional I have seen the torture that a mother undergoes when she comes to know […]
Multiple instances of assault Following the death of a seven year old girl, her relatives claimed negligence, attacked the doctors and vandalized Apollo Hospital, Bannerghatta Road in Bangalore on Wednesday. The relatives attacked five doctors and ransacked the ICU. The girl was admitted after Tuesday midnight with symptoms of fever, headache and vomiting. The hospital […]
The MCI has given approval to three new medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh These colleges will start functioning with academic sessions for the year 2016-17 The three colleges come under the jurisdiction of NTR University of Health Sciences at Vijawawada The colleges are: Gayathri Vidya Parishad Institute of Medical Care and Health Technology at Marikavalasa, […]
The new bill drafted by NITI Aayog has come under criticism from the Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH) Some key points the doctors raised include: The bill promotes accelerated privatization and commercialization of medical education By proposing that for-profit entities be allowed to start and run medical colleges, the bill legalized profiteering in […]
Faced with mounting allegations against MCI, the council’s president Dr Jayshree Mehta defends the council, saying the body was not ‘given a reasonable opportunity’ to present their side of the story. Some of the things she said in this regard are: The negative attention which fell on the council is unfair. Though time was sought […]
The tuberculosis rate in India could be way more than what has been estimated, shows a study. Some of the most important facts that the study brings to light are the following: India’s annual TB cases was assumed to be 2.2 million. But the study puts the number at more than 3.8 million in 2014 […]
One factor that increases the cost of treatment in India is that 70% of medical devices are imported. Innovating in India could actually bring that cost down by 50% according to consensus. Doctors are bringing a change to this scenario, combining their insights about the medical practice with local conditions to create extremely cost-efficient solutions […]
The world gets it first exclusive vaccine for leprosy from India. The vaccine is to be piloted in five districts of Gujarat and Bihar in the coming weeks. This comes as part of India’s efforts to eradicate the disease which cripples 1.25 lakh people every year in the country. Around 60% of leprosy patients in […]
80 percent of the doctors, 75 per cent of dispensaries and 60 percent of hospitals in India are in urban areas as per a report released by research firm, KPMG and the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India(OPPI). The release of the survey happened at the Fifth Healthcare Access Summit organized by OPPI with the […]
Patients at Ram Mohan Lohla Hospital, AIIMS, PGI Chandigarh and NIMHAMS will exercise from next month what could become a permanent fixture in the Indian medial landscape-they will provide feedback regarding the quality of services which will help determine the rating for the hospital. As a way to provide star ratings to government health facilities, […]