In solidarity with resident doctors in Mumbai, doctors have turned up at AIIMS hospital wearing helmets. Doctors are wearing it as a precautionary measure after relatives of a deceased patient had beaten up a resident doctor in Mumbai. Over 4,000 resident doctors from across Maharashtra have gone on mass leave,[Read More…]
The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014 that seeks to prevent and control the spread of HIV and AIDS, and prohibits discrimination against affected persons. The Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on February 11, 2014 by[Read More…]
As decriminalisation and legalisation of Marijuana are trending in western parts of the world, the Oxford University on Thursday has declared that it will start a research project of £ 10 million on the medicinal profits of marijuana. The research is in alliance with Kingsley Capital Partners, a private equity[Read More…]
As a protest against “discrimination” in the Seventh Central Pay Commission, nearly 5,000 nurses of the emergency services at AIIMS planned to go on a mass casual leave on Friday. The nurses union at AIIMS has also said that they will go on an indefinite hunger strike from March 27[Read More…]
At least 64 children below the age of six died every day in 2016 in Madhya Pradesh, according to Health Department report. According to a Hindustan Times report, Minister for women and development Archana Chitnis revealed in the state assembly that 25,440 children in the age group of 0-6 years lost their lives due to[Read More…]
Maharashtra Police on Sunday retrieved as many as 19 female foetuses from a sewer in a village in western Maharashtra’s Sangli district. The police, while investigating the death of a 26-year-old woman after an illegal abortion, discovered the abandoned foetus in plastic bags in the sewer a few metres away[Read More…]
An air ambulance of Gurgaon-based Medanta Hospital caught fire killing a pilot and four others which include two doctors and a nurse. The flight not only caught fire but also had a crash landing near Nakhon Pathom airport, about 730 km from Bangkok, Thailand. The air ambulance, a chartered single-engine[Read More…]
Environmental pollutants cost an estimated 1.7 million lives among children under 5 every year, according to World Health Organization reports. The report attributed the death of more than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years to unhealthy environments such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe[Read More…]
Central government on Thursday has approved over 4,000 Post Graduate seats in medical colleges and hospitals across the country, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said. Nadda added that these 4000 seats will take the total number of Post Graduate (PG) seats to 35,117. “Looking at the need to increase[Read More…]
A recent research has revealed that men who use cocaine at the time of conceiving a child may increase the risk of their sons developing learning disabilities and memory loss. A study proves that fathers who regularly abuse drugs might have a negative effect on the cognitive development and learning[Read More…]
The cases of depression are rapidly growing in India with more than 5 crore people suffering from the disorder – the highest in Southeast Asia and Western Pacific region including China. A fresh report by the UN health agency WHO also suggest that China and India are certainly the worst[Read More…]
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Thursday suggested the police to lodge an FIR against Safdarjung Hospital. The hospital allegedly twisted a case of delivery of a 19-year-old woman, handed her only one of her babies instead of her delivering twins. The incident happened last year on December 22nd.[Read More…]
Following an online petition signed by 1.3 lakh people against the alarming rise in caesarean section surgeries in India, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi wrote to health minister J P Nadda, suggesting to make it mandatory for hospitals to publicly display the number of c-section surgeries and normal[Read More…]
