-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With a hammer in his hands to check the limb reflexes, a tape to measure the length of hands and legs and a goniometer to ensure precise measurement of angles, he looks more like a carpenter than a doctor. He carries no stethoscope like a regular doctor, but the orthopaedic expert has caught the attention of Bill Gates, no less, with the work he has...
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How A TV Serial Watched By 400 Million Changed Gender Beliefs In Rural India -Swagata Yadavar
-SabrangIndia.in In Pratapgarh, a village that could be anywhere in the Hindi belt, a young man, Ravi, gets to know that his wife, Seema, is pregnant with a girl child, third time in a row. He wants her to get an abortion because he wants a male child. He forces Seema to accompany him to a doctor who agrees to conduct the abortion though the foetus is past the 20-week deadline...
More »Vaccination rates among India's rich have dropped, the national family health survey shows -Nayantara Narayanan
-Scroll.in Meanwhile, 55% of all Indians do not go to public Hospitals to seek treatment. In 2017, India saw much uproar over the state of health facilities and medical services in the country. Rumours about vaccine safety dogged immunisation campaigns in some states, child deaths in government Hospitals have raised questions about the state of public health facilities across the country, and large corporate Hospitals have come under the scanner for...
More »RTI Reveals Modi Called Health Minister to Discuss Removal of AIIMS Whistleblower Sanjiv Chaturvedi -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in While it is not known what transpired in the conversation between the prime minister and the then health minister Harsh Vardhan, the RTI replies reveal a level of inertia in governance. New Delhi: At the peak of the controversy surrounding whistleblower Indian Forest Service officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi exposing major corruption in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made a telephonic call to the then...
More »IMA strike call may hit private OPDs today
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Services at private Hospitals in India are likely to be hit on Tuesday as the Indian Medical Association has called for suspending routine services for 12 hours in protest against the National Medical Commission Bill, which seeks to replace Medical Council of India with a new body. The bill is likely to be debated in Parliament on Tuesday. OPDs of private Hospitals may be hit...
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