Medical negligence has been a hot topic for many weeks now. It has been implicated as a contributing factor in the Gorakhpur tragedy, in which 70 children and newborns lost their lives over the course of a week. It has also been cited as the reason behind numerous other cases of child mortality. Is there …
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India will establish itself as the world’s third largest economy by 2028, claims the British bank HSBC. However, continuing to shortchange public spending on health may stymie the country’s longer–term growth, its report says. A report by the international banking titan says that India will overtake Germany and Japan in 2028, when its economy will …
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‘Nations Within a Nation’ A groundbreaking new study published today in The Lancet spotlights a major concern about healthcare in India: the vast disparities between its states. ‘Nations Within a Nation’, touted as ‘the first comprehensive analysis of health in India’, shows that the ‘substantial gains in healthcare’ made by India in recent years have …
India has avoided around one million deaths of children under five since 2005 claims a study recently published in The Lancet. Despite this reduction, India still has more child deaths than any other country, with 0.9 million child deaths occurring annually. The reduction since 2005 does indicate a positive trend, though India requires a great …
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On November 8, 2014, 140 women underwent surgery in two state-run sterilisation camps in Chhattisgarh. Five days later, thirteen of them had died. The tragedy grabbed global headlines. Three years later, it remains an open wound in India. At the time, it seemed as if there was one, easy-to-identify cause that could be addressed through …
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Until now, Rajasthan, India’s largest state by area, has had no capacity to test genetic samples. This has left a vital area of healthcare unaccounted for. This is soon to change with the announcement that J K Lon Hospital is to start up a facility capable of both genetic and molecular testing. The facility itself …
‘Delhi has become a gas chamber’ says Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, as smog in the national capital reaches critical levels and leads the Indian Medical Association (IMA) declaring a state of public health emergency. Deterioration of air quality in Delhi in recent days has caused widespread disruption. Junior schools in the city are closed until at least …
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India has built its first virology laboratory dedicated to finding homeopathic solutions to diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever and chikungunya. Shripad Yesso Naik, Union Minister for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), presided over the opening ceremony of the state-of-the art laboratory at Kolkata’s Dr Anjali Chatterjee Regional Research Institute …
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A community-based NGO has proposed a number of indigenously developed psychological therapies for depression and autism. While autism remains a largely undocumented condition in India, depression has become a common phenomenon, particularly amongst the young. It is estimated that 70 million Indians suffer from mental health issues; many of these will have some degree of …
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Expensive scans and X-rays may become obsolete if a newly devised medical camera becomes a commonly used tool in hospitals. The device, constructed by Kevin Dhaliwal – professor of Molecular Imaging and Healthcare Technology at the University of Edinburgh – is a first of its kind method of detecting devices such as endoscopes within a …
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