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Set up varsity safety panels: UGC committee by Aarti Dhar

For proper handling of radioactive, and other hazardous materials VCs must send duly signed reports Cobalt-60 isotope mishandled by Delhi University With a view to ensuring that the guidelines of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) and the Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules are strictly implemented, a UGC expert committee has suggested the setting up of university committees to review safety in handling radioactive and other hazardous materials used by the institutions. The...

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3-yr 'hands-on' Syllabus for rural medicos ready by Shobha John & Rema Nagarajan

The Syllabus for the three-year course for rural medical practitioners is ready. It promises to do away with what's "unnecessary" in the four-and-a-half-year MBBS course and prepare "hands-on" doctors at the primary level. The course, called the Bachelor of Rural Health Care (BRHC), is expected to change the landscape of medical education and delivery of health care and hopefully, solve the shortage of doctors in rural areas, home to 70%...

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Providing low-cost healthcare to villages by Anupama Chandrasekaran

That hospital births curb mother and child deaths is probably a no brainer. Convincing expectant mothers to get admitted to a hospital is only part of the problem in India’s rural healthcare system. The other challenge is abysmal infrastructure: There is just one hospital bed for every 10,000 Indians living in villages and one in 10 primary health centres in rural areas stumble along without doctors. The result is a human tragedy....

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Health ministry to finalise rural medical course soon

The health ministry will soon finalise the Syllabus for the proposed short-term medical course for training doctors especially for rural areas, an official said Wednesday. 'The course is now in its advanced stage of finalisation,' a senior official from the health ministry said. The official said almost all state governments have given their nod to the Syllabus. 'The Syllabus has got the nod of most of the state governments. Only...

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Rural health care degree plan as scheduled, says Azad by Aarti Dhar

The Union government will go ahead with the proposed Bachelor of Rural Health Care. This assertion came from Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in response to questions by journalists whether the government would put the proposal on hold in the wake of the arrest of Ketan Desai, president of the Medical Council of India (MCI). The Minister said it was a government initiative where public sector hospitals...

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