When it comes to the health sector, India is always known to have an acute shortage of doctors, though some states is an exception. Now, while states with enough number of doctors and medical colleges are continuing to allow new private medical colleges, states like Jharkhand and Bihar, with an acute shortage of doctors have […]
In an extremely rare surgery, doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences operated a baby who had its conjoined twin that lacked a head and a heart growing with it. The abnormal twin was posing a threat to the life of the normal twin. In a normal pregnancy, the head and heart […]
A team of doctors identified a rare blood group ‘called ‘pp’ or ‘P null’ phenotype for the first time in India. The blood group was identified by Dr. Shamee Shastry and her team from the blood bank of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. Besides the known A, B, and Rh antigens, there are more than […]
Image: Hindustan times. Not so long ago, a heartbreaking incident, where nearly 70 infants died of lack of oxygen supply in Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, has stirred the collective conscience of the people in the Country. Now another incident which is too horrendous that it can make people quiet is slowly […]
For all the doctors who are fed up with long shifts and extra loads of work, Delhi High Court has suggested setting fixed working hours for the doctors and setting an accurate doctor-patient ratio! The suggestion was raised in the court by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar. […]
Image Credits: Times of India. On an average, she sees 60 patients a day. She starts consulting by 8 in the morning and continues until 5 in the evening, which makes a total of 9 hours of consultation! This is the story of Dr. Vibha Augustine, a gynecologist, who is the only hope for the […]
Image credits: Hindustan Times. Whenever we feel sick, we feel concerned about ourselves and goes to consult a doctor. But did anyone ever thought about how healthy our doctors are? Or what all kind of troubles do they face? Being a doctor is not as easy as it sounds. It takes years of hard work […]
A Syrian surgeon who said Indian doctors should ‘clean toilets, not practice medicine’, and claimed they would be the ‘downfall of the NHS’ has been struck off the medical register. Dr Ragheb Nouman, 52, also called a colleague an ‘Indian b******’ during an argument in front of patients at a hospital bus stop, but blamed his racist […]