“IMA bats for cash transfer to the poor, investment of 5 per cent of GDP in health by governments and provide stimulus to clinics, small and medium hospitals run as professional medical practice.”
Tag: Healthcare
Soon C-sections delivery to be performed by robots: Report
London: Robotics are expected to become so sophisticated, hospitals may not need surgeons. Controlled by healthcare assistants, the machines will soon be delivering babies by carrying out C-sections as well as other surgeries, say experts. The predictions are based on the report by the “Commission on the Future of Surgery”[Read More…]
Ground Report: Bihar’s premier hospital (PMCH) to have super-speciality facility is a distant dream
Since last year, Bihar’s premier government hospital, the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) has become a priority for state government as many announcements, declarations with an installation of medical equipment have taken place. The above mentioned proclamations are as follows: PMCH to become a seven-storey hospital which will be[Read More…]
All-India electronic database system for healthcare by 2020: Nadda
New Delhi: Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on Thursday said the government is aiming to establish an electronic database system across all the districts in India. “We are aiming at establishing an electronic database in all its districts by the year 2020, to reduce the burden of paper-based data collection,[Read More…]
Ayushman Bharat: Here’s why these five states reject Centre’s healthcare scheme
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) on September 23 to provide health benefits to the poor, not all the states find it worth implying to their states. So far five states in the country have declined from opting the Centre’s healthcare insurance scheme[Read More…]
Odisha: Expectant mother carried on cot for 6 km, newborn died soon after
Lack of basic facilities including education and healthcare still remains a distant dream for the villagers of Bidarpakhana in Malkangiri district of Odisha. Unavailability of ambulance kills a newborn on Sunday. To utmost disappointment, family members of an expectant mother were forced to carry her on a cot to take[Read More…]
Right to healthcare to prevail over right to voluntary retirement: SC
The Supreme Court has ruled that the larger public interest of health and medical care would prevail over the right to voluntary retirement by the doctors as medical services are part and parcel of right to life itself. Right to retire as a fundamental right can’t be supreme then the right to[Read More…]
Nitish Kumar welcomes Budget proposals on MSP, healthcare
New Delhi: JD-U supremo and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday welcomed the Union Budget proposal of increasing the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of crops to 1.5 times of the input cost. He also congratulated Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for announcing the “grand initiative” of National Health Protection Scheme under[Read More…]
Indian women have evolved as able soldiers: President Kovind
More and more countries are entrusting women with greater responsibilities in their armed forces and in India too, women have evolved as able soldiers in whichever arm or service they have served in, President Ram Nath Kovind said here on Friday. Addressing the closing ceremony of the 42nd World Congress[Read More…]
How Rahul Gandhi’s U.S. trip presented his vision for Congress Party and India: A discussion on key issues
Rahul Gandhi’s trip to the United States of America where he interacted with political and business leaders, students, and Non Resident Indians is being largely seen as a success. It has been universally admitted that the young leader spoke with clarity and honesty seldom seen in politics. He was reflexive[Read More…]
Hospital in Bihar asks employees to declare virginity in declaration form
In a funny incident, a government hospital in Bihar is asking its employees some really weird questions in their declaration forms. In the marital declaration form of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science (IGIMS), Patna, employees are being asked to declare their virginity and also the number of wives[Read More…]
80,000 nurses in Kerala to go on an indefinite strike
In Kerala, 80,000 nurses will go on an indefinite strike from 17 July demanding higher wages which is likely to affect the functioning of hospitals. The United Nurses Association (UNA) and Indian Nurses Association, spearheading the ongoing agitation, said they would intensify their protest from 17 July. The situation could[Read More…]
Odisha: Degrading healthcare services, patients treated under trees
Exposing the degrading quality of health service in Odisha, in Mahakalapada in Kendrapara district patients are getting medical services under a tree. This comes at a time when poor healthcare services are taking a taking toll on patient’s lives in the state-run hospitals of Odisha. The patients have been undergoing[Read More…]
Health promises and the helter skelter
After a long wait of 6 years, Bhola and Sarita had their first child and they named her, Jyoti. In just three months of her existence, Jyoti had become the lifeline for the couple. Their mundane life in Birgaon village of Jamtara district in Jharkhand, had suddenly turned lively. Things[Read More…]
No decision on making Aadhaar mandatory at AIIMS, says Union Health Secy
Swedish Medicover plans to revolutionize Indian IVF market
Medicover, which has invested in India through a number of businesses such as Oriflame for over a decade, has now entered the Indian IVF market in May this year.Medicover plans to open 50 IVF clinics in India, andpromises high standards of operations and quality. After surveying the IVF markets in[Read More…]