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 …
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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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 …
Epilepsy is considered grounds for divorce and the annulment of marriages in both India and China reports the World Health Organization (WHO). This is primarily due to more pronounced negative socio-economic conditions caused by the disease in these countries. This results from what is referred to as the “treatment gap” between low-to-middle income countries and …
The public perception of medication and treatment is a major obstacle to improving healthcare in India, says Monica Lakhanpaul (a leading professor of integrated community child health). India is a country deeply rooted in tradition. This often means that many in the population are not eager to accept modern technological or medical intervention, she says. …
Locals and volunteers will require treatment for long-term health effects following the oil spill in Chennai, recent reports suggest. MT BW Maple – a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker – and MT Dawn Kanchipuram – a petroleum, oil and lubricants (POL) tanker – collided in the early hours of January 28, 2017. The collision took …
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Measles will be eliminated by 2020 promises the 2017 health budget. Doing so would eradicate a public health scourge that kills thousands of children in India every year. To fulfill this ambitious yet viable pledge, the Indian government will seek to build upon the country’s success in combating the disease in recent years, through a …
A medical school admissions scandal in Madhya Pradesh has led to India’s Supreme Court revoking 634 medical licences. The latest development in the ‘Vyapam scam’ – named for the Hindi acronym of the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) – has seen the doctors in question accused by the Supreme Court of participating in “acts …
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