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: Healthcare India In India, where there are only 60,000 MBBS seats, those who just qualified the NEET exam, and ranked 4 lakh also gets admission for MBBS. But how? With all colleges having to go by the NEET ranking in admission, the high fees charged by most private colleges make it possible. For Instance, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Students completing postgraduate degrees or diplomas in any faculty of the Goa Medical College (GMC) will have to compulsorily serve a three-year bond wherein the successful candidate will be required to work in a government hospital or any other medical institute under the public health department. Excuse of further studies – no more ! The […]