-PTI Ahmedabad: The state government today told the Gujarat High Court that there was a shortage of specialist Doctors at community health centres as they were generally unwilling to work in rural areas and small towns. In an affidavit filed in response to a PIL seeking the courts direction to the state to provide better diagnosis and treatment facilities to control vector-borne diseases, the government said that it was fully equipped to...
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Country's lowest infant mortality rate recorded in Manipur -K Sarojkumar Sharma
-The Times of India IMPHAL: It is hard to believe that the state, mostly in the news for reports of armed conflicts, has been achieving the country's lowest infant mortality rate (IMR) consecutively for the last three years — standing tall amidst other conventionally well-equipped states. According to the health ministry report, Manipur's IMR stands at nine deaths per 1000 live births. The national IMR, according to the latest available data,...
More »Indicators that matter: On the quality of public healthcare -Soumitra Ghosh
-The Hindu Governments must be judged on the quality and extent of the public health care they provide The deaths of more than 70 children in one hospital in Gorakhpur and 49 in Farrukhabad, both in Uttar Pradesh recently, reflect the appalling state of public health in India. However, it needs to be remembered that India’s public health care sector has been ailing for decades. According to the latest Global Burden of...
More »In U.P., babies pay the price of poor medical infrastructure -Omar Rashid
-The Hindu Doctors in hospital where 30 babies died in a month likely to get clean chit. FARUKKHABAD (U.P.): Shaheen lives in a cramped, two-room tenement in the congested Khatakpura Izzat Khan lane in urban Farukkhabad. Her husband Dishad sells embroidery scraps for a living. They have three daughters, aged 15, 10 and 6. In the dimly-lit room, Shaheen waits for Dilshad to return. Short on money, life is tough for the family....
More »Why the Indian patient is caught between the devil and the deep sea -Sanjay Kumar and Pranav Gupta
-Livemint.com A 2014 NSSO report shows that the majority of Indians prefer to consult private practitioners rather than public hospitals and those who do visit public hospitals often do so out of compulsion First it was Gorakhpur. Now it is Farrukhabad. The death toll in Uttar Pradesh’s government hospitals—from what appear to be preventable causes—has been mounting over the past month. Similar incidents have been reported from other states, pointing to the...
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