After allowing swapping of organs, India is working on another landmark step in organ transplantation: a single apex national organization that will procure and distribute human organs. Union health ministry is setting up the autonomous National Organ Procurement and Distribution Organization (NOPDO) at the Centre and 10 State Organ Procurement and Distribution Organization (SOPDO) under the country's new National Organ Transplant Programme (NOTP). Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, West Bengal, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh,...

-The Telegraph The Union health ministry plans to initiate a process to make tuberculosis a notifiable disease, compelling all private doctors nationwide to keep local health authorities informed about their TB Patients. A senior health official said the notification would mean private practitioners would have to inform health authorities about Patients who show up with symptoms for the first time and Patients treated earlier who may have developed drug-resistant TB. “This is not...

-PTI The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will put up a complaint and suggestion box at its pharmacy on the hospital campus to check discrepancies in the distribution of medicines at less than half the price. The 24-hour pharmacy is expected to provide all medicines and surgical consumables prescribed by doctors to outPatients at a 56 per cent discount on the minimum retail price. “The pharmacist has been instructed to provide...

Poor Patients will soon get free treatment at the country’s premier medical institute without having to run from pillar to post. The Institute Body of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday decided to give free treatment to all BPL card holders. AIIMS has been asked to prepare a proposal and submit it to the Union Health Ministry for sanction of funds under the plan head for the...

-PTI   An elderly resident of Indore has alleged that her husband died in 2010 following a drug trial a government doctor conducted on him without his consent. The doctor in question, Salil Bhargava, denied that he was involved in any “illegal or unethical” drug trials. “We have carried out all the drug trials after getting due consent from the Patients for which they were duly insured. We have all records with us in...