-The Indian Express Dr Venugopal, an obstetrician and secretary general of KFOG, said the state's health apparatus showed progress as a result of 'systemic actions' adopted by doctors and government officials. Kochi: Kerala’s superior health infrastructure and its advances in improving delivery care facilities and nutritional level among pregnant women have resulted in further reduction of the maternal mortality rate (MMR) (proportion of maternal deaths per 1 lakh live births) in the...
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Tuticorin violence: Madras High Court orders re-postmortem of 7 bodies -Lokpria Vasudevan
-IndiaToday.in Chennai: Almost a week after, 13 people were killed in the gruesome violence that gripped Tamil Nadus Tuticorin in protest against Sterlite plant, Madras High Court today ordered re-postmortem of seven bodies. The court ordered the re-postmortem after petioners alleged tampering of evidence. The court has mandated that a doctor from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) or Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) or Kerala Insititute...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: Three fathers who lost a child each to alleged medical negligence and a patients' rights group have asked the Union health ministry to establish new mechanisms to address complaints of negligence. The existing institutional mechanisms to protect patients has failed and broken down, their letter to minister J.P. Nadda and health officials on Saturday said. The parents and the rights group, the All India Drug Action Network, have sought...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: A panel of doctors has called for changes to the rules banning prenatal sex determination, warning they are depriving rural populations of easy access to the point-of-care ultrasound scans (pocus) needed to diagnose and treat critically ill patients. doctors associated with the Jan Swasthya Sahyog, which runs a rural hospital in Chhattisgarh, have recommended technology and better policing to improve access to the scans and curb their misuse...
More »1 in 5 kids in rehab homes has behavioural issues, finds study -Durgesh Nandan Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The poor mental health of many inmates of child rehabilitation institutions in Delhi has always been known. But it is only now that there are actual figures to show the extent of a brewing crisis as the children grow older. The data has been collated by the psychiatry department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, based on its assessment of 414 children living in...
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