While the cases of coronavirus are still reiterating around the world, India has a piece of good news to share regarding one of its corona-positive patients. The patient zero of the country, a woman student from Thrissur, Kerala who returned from Wuhan, may soon get to go home. She is on the path of recovery […]
Over the past couple of decades, Kerala has built a robust reputation as one of the best places for palliative care globally. The contrast in the state of affairs for terminally ill patients now as opposed to thirty years ago could be seen in an experience related by Dr MR Rajagopal- an anasethetist based in […]
Resort hospitals as well as multispecialty hospitals that afford great views- mostly of water bodies are becoming something of a trend, if not a norm in Kerala. With market demand for such hospitals on the rise, many are the medium-sized hospitals(bed capacity: 50 to 100) that are being revamped to attune to this market preference. […]
Kerala Health and Social Welfare Minister K.K.Shylaja said on Monday that government hospitals will see the introduction of the family doctor. To this end, primary health centres are to be upgraded to family health centres. She said that the new system would ensure the presence of a doctor with first-hand information about a family’s health. […]
About 140 members of the Kannatthu family in Alappuzha, Kerala have webbed hands. The anomaly which has persisted in the family for two generations has attracted some media attention in recent times. Though the medical condition, syndactyly can be surgically treated the family members are not too keen on it. 65 year old Jagadamma who […]
In the previous two weeks, about 1 lakh children were vaccinated against diphtheria in the Malappuram district in Kerala. The vaccinated kids were either not immunized or only partially immunized before. According to the data from the authorities that was published on Monday, the number of children below sixteen years who were vaccinated as on […]
On Saturday, an unvaccinated 15 year old boy died in kerala’s Malappuram district due to diphtheria. Malappuram has attracted attention in recent times for its Muslim community with a strong reluctance to adopt immunization. According to Medical officer Dr.Ummer Farook, this year, two clinically confirmed cases of diphtheria have been recorded. The boy who died […]