A recent BBC report highlights the gender disparity in mental healthcare. It is revealed that women in mental health wards are far more likely to be abandoned by their family following the diagnosis of a mental illness. This comes in the wake of a World Health Organization study indicating that around 7.5 percent of Indians suffer from …
Most Indian hospitals do not have any guidelines on antibiotic prescribing, according at a senior ICMR official, but that is about to change. New guidelines regarding the prescription of antibiotic medications have been issued to a number of hospitals in India. These guidelines, issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) aim to stem the …
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Seventy percent of patients requiring kidney dialysis in India don’t receive it according to a new study published in The Lancet. The cause of this deficit is a combination of both unavailability and unaffordability. An estimated 200,000 new patients require dialysis treatment a year, with kidney diseases becoming one of the highest causes of mortality …
Punjab is said to be “engulfed by drugs” – an addiction epidemic some say is being exploited for political gain. “A drug problem of alarming proportions” The northern state accounts for half of the total number of drug related cases in the country, DNA India reported in June 2015, citing data from the Narcotics Control …
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President Donald Trump’s plan to repeal American healthcare legislation could present challenges for Indian start-ups. Trump’s effect on Indian healthcare is a topic Health Issues India has explored before. In November 2016, we wrote that Indian pharma experts were emboldened by his upset election victory. His “pro-industry” leanings and calls for “barriers to entry into …
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Indian scientists have devised a way of repurposing nuclear waste for medical purposes. The Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in the Trombay suburb of Mumbai has put to use the radioactive isotope caesium-137 – created as a by-product of the nuclear energy process – to replace cobalt-60 in a life saving procedure used to prevent …
Hospital acquired infections (HAI) are far more common in India than in western countries. This occurs at the alarming rate of one infection per four hospital visits compared to one in ten for a European country and one in twenty for the United States. At a rate this high, and due to the potential infection …
Iron supplements have the potential to make those suffering from an infectious disease and from anaemia less healthy, says Cambridge researcher Dr Dora Pereira. The iron provided by the tablets can increase the patient’s blood iron levels, but is also made available to any pathogens — bacteria, parasites or viruses — present in the patient. …
An extreme example of medical tourism is currently underway. The world’s heaviest woman, Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, has been transported from Egypt to Mumbai. This is the culmination of two months of preparation. Specialist equipment such as cranes were required to move Abd El Aty, as well as a specially modified airbus. The entire …
A new book looks to provide a visual – and perhaps vital – representation of the disparities in Indian healthcare. Recently published by the Chhattisgarh-based non-profit Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS), “An Atlas of Rural Health: Chronicles from Central India” consists of fifty true stories, coupled with various health maps and cartograms. The book aims to …
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