The controversial three-and-a-half year long medical degree -Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS) -- has now got the backing of Planning Commission's all powerful high level expert group on universal health coverage. The panel has in its report (finalized on Sunday and available with TOI) "endorsed" the all new BRMS cadre and said that as a career progression incentive, they should be promoted to the level of public health officers...
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Maternal deaths in Jharkhand expose lacunae in facilities by Aarti Dhar
Lack of appropriate services at the healthcare facilities led to three maternal deaths in one block of Deoghar district of Jharkhand while seven others died due to lack of back up emergency facilities during delivery and mechanisms to deal with postpartum complications. These maternal deaths were reported from Devipur block between march 2010 and February this year. A Maternal Death Audit conducted by the Network for Enterprise, Enhancement and Development...
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-The Telegraph Six children, aged between four and 10 years, died at the Malda Medical College and Hospital in the past 24 hours amid allegations that they were not treated on time and were made to wait by the doctors on duty. The hospital authorities, however, claimed that the children had been brought in very critical conditions. The Malda district magistrate has ordered an inquiry into the deaths at the hospital, which...
More »A man of God or an agent of war? by Aman Sethi
A mysterious death in Raipur hospital reveals routine cross-border raids in A.P. by Chhattisgarh police They lock the door when a post-mortem is under way, but the smell of death seeps through the exhaust vents of the mortuary at the Medical College Hospital in Raipur. Outside the morgue, a pack of dogs sniffed the air experimentally; inside, the corpse of Gangraj, a middle-aged Adivasi man lay in body bag in a...
More »Registration of four more doctors suspended
-The Times of India Four more doctors' registration has been suspended after a court farmed charges against them for their alleged involvement in sex determination. The Rajasthan Medical Council suspended the registration of the doctors after the court framed charges against them, health minister A A Khan said here on Monday. Soon after the provisional census 2011 revealed that the state's sex ratio is on the decline, the medical and health...
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