-HealthIndia.com To improve the rural health scenario the government intends to introduce the Bachelor of Rural Healthcare course (BRHC), which will require all medical students to work in rural areas for a period of time. This will see a change in the Postgraduate Medical education guidelines, which will include a 50% reservation quota for medical officers in government service. Also as an added incentive, there will be a 10% increase in...
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Doctors pursuing higher studies in the U.S. to sign return bond
-The Hindu The Bachelor of Rural Health Care course seeks to create a separate cadre of public health professionals to serve in rural areas Any doctor travelling to the United States for higher Medical Studies from this year onwards will have to sign a bond with the government, promising to return to India after completing his/her studies. This has been done to prevent doctors from leaving the country on the pretext of higher...
More »Glaring gender bias ails heart health-Kounteya Sinha
Women in India face discrimination even when it comes to their heart health. Three separate studies - one of them from India and the other two from China and West Asia - presented at the World Congress of Cardiology in Dubai on Friday said that women don't receive the same treatment as men for heart disease across the world. They said that women with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) receive inferior or less...
More »Unwanted daughters: India battles with "gendercide"
-NYDailyNews.com Recent deaths of battered baby girls in different parts of India have jolted the nation's conscience. The United Nations ranks India as the deadliest place for female children. A few days back, 3-month-old Afreen died of cardiac arrest in a southern Indian hospital. She bore signs of beatings and cigarette burns, allegedly abused by her father. The 25-year-old father was apparently upset at having a daughter instead of a son, his wife...
More »Patent to plunder -Amit Sengupta
India's efforts to produce and supply life-saving drugs at affordable prices face challenges from multinational companies trying to “evergreen” their patents. THE average life expectancy across the globe has increased from around 30 years a century ago to over 65 years today. This has been made possible in large part by modern medicine. Never before in history have humans had access to such an array of medicines and devices to...
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