Regulations covering public health should override personal rights and the country cannot wait any more for a good public health law. The health care industry, including institutions of medical education, hospitals and pharmaceutical businesses, have grown into behemoths that can do considerable harm in the absence of independent and effective regulatory systems. While there are no success stories in the regulation of any kind of industry in India, I will focus...

Woman dies in Mahabubnagar  HYDERABAD: The swine flu virus, which was hitherto confined to a few cities, claimed its second victim in Mahabubnagar district on Thursday as the disease spread fast to new areas. A suspected patient was quarantined in Guntur. According to information reaching here, Saritha of Peddapur village in Veldanda mandal in Mahabubnagar district, died at a private hospital in Hyderabad in the early hours on Thursday. Saritha...

-The Hindu People coming from abroad have to undergo two different medical checks and are being stamped at the second screening point Delhi has begun stamping the forearms of people, who have been advised Home Quarantine in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. In a crackdown on people who have been advised Home Quarantine but are found travelling/mingling in public, authorities have begun stamping the hands of people with an indelible ink similar...