-Scroll.in Medical admissions have been paralysed by the government’s inability to offer a rationale for the income criteria used to define economically weaker sections For nearly two weeks now, Hospital services in Delhi have been crippled by a strike by resident doctors over the deadlock in admissions to postgraduate medical courses. On Monday, the police allegedly thrashed and detained protesting doctors, registering a case against them, which prompted their association to announce...
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Police Cracks Down Doctors Protesting in Delhi, Several Detained
-TheWire.in The stir, led by the Federation of Resident Doctors' Association, has been going on for 12 days now. New Delhi: Protests by a large number of resident doctors in Delhi over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling on Monday took a dramatic turn, with police personnel cracking down on the protesters. Both the protesters and police have said that several persons suffered injuries in the ensuing melee. The stir, led by the...
More »Omicron drives Indians, especially health workers, to quietly get booster from pvt Hospitals -Mohana Basu and Anusha Ravi Sood
-ThePrint.in Centre is yet to recommend booster dose for Covid vaccine & CoWin neither allows registration for third dose nor issues certificate for it. But that appears to be no impediment for some. New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Fear of a drop in antibody level six months after receiving the second vaccine dose, and rising concern about the spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, have pushed people in some parts of the country...
More »Omicron: India eye on South Africa, North America to gauge bed needs -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Given Hospitalisation trends in the West, we may not see extreme pressures on Hospitals as during second wave, say experts Indian health officials are monitoring Covid-19 Hospitalisation rates in South Africa and Europe to try and predict how omicron-fuelled surges might impact the demand for critical care beds in India. The early signals appear to uncouple deaths from infection spikes. The daily new cases in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the...
More »Kerala and Tamil Nadu bucked the trend of falling Total Fertility Rate, indicates the latest NFHS data
After the release of the second phase data of the National Family Health Survey Fifth Round (NFHS-5), media commentators and experts have written that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for India has gone down just below the replacement-level fertility. The TFR for the entire nation was 2.2 in 2015-16, which decreased to 2.0 in 2019-21. According to the United Nations, the replacement-level fertility is reached when the TFR of a...
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