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Quackery: An epidemic in India?

Chennai is on alert against quack doctors, whom officials say vex the city every year during its fever season. The news comes as a reminder of the epidemic of quackery in India: unqualified, unlicensed practitioners account for a staggering proportion of the country’s healthcare workforce.  In the past decade, an estimated 1,500 quack doctors have …

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Doctors in Bihar: Efforts to increase numbers

Efforts are underway to increase the number of doctors in Bihar to address its shortage, with both the National Health Mission (NHM) and the state government taking steps to plug the gap.  The state health department is aiming to recruit 2,425 doctors to staff government hospitals, as the state’s public health infrastructure grapples with a …

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Doctor absenteeism: Still a problem in public hospitals

A recent case in Bihar saw a staggering 194 medicos disciplined after they were not present during a Medical Council of India (MCI) inspection – casting a spotlight again on the issue of doctor absenteeism in India.  The MCI was inspecting a number of medical colleges in the state in which a number of staff …

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Mental health treatment boon in Maharashtra

Three cities in Maharashtra will benefit from centres of excellence in mental health treatment.  The centres will be located at regional psychiatric facilities in Nagpur, Pune, and Thane which will be upgraded to offer curricula for students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels concerning mental health issues and their treatment. Tata Trusts is involved in the …

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A new medical college to come to Goa?

Goa – home to one of the first medical colleges in Asia – wants to open a second facility in the state more than 170 years after its first college was established.  A medical school in Goa was first established in 1842 whilst the state was under Portuguese rule. The facility was upgraded to a …

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More government medical colleges on the way

The establishment of 75 new government medical colleges has been approved and are expected to be set up within the next few years.  The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gave the nod to the new facilities on Wednesday, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. It comes as part of a five-year-long government push …

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Achieving the ideal doctor-patient ratio

India could reach the doctor-patient ratio recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) within the next few years, a member of the Centre’s leading think tank Niti Aayog has said.  “With the efforts of the Government of India, the country would be able to achieve the WHO norm of one physician for 1,000 population before …

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Recruiting retired doctors in Madhya Pradesh

To plug the state’s doctor shortage, the Madhya Pradesh state government is proposing recruiting retired doctors.  The cabinet has approved the proposal, which seeks to address the seventy percent shortfall of doctors in the state-run healthcare facilities. Health minister Tulsi Silawat claimed that 2,633 doctors’ posts were vacant in the state, although other estimates put …

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Odisha expands the number of doctors’ posts

Odisha has taken steps to plug the state’s doctor shortage by creating 2,000 new medical posts.  There are currently 3,288 vacant doctors’ posts in the state, reports state, which is being attributed to doctors going on study leave. As such, the state government is creating posts known as leave training reserve medical officers (LTRMOs). Those …

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High Court calls out low pay for government doctors

Identifying pay rates as the rationale behind medicos choosing private practice over work in the public sectors, the Madras High Court is calling for a pay increase for government doctors. The issue of comparatively lower pay in the public sector was raised during a High Court hearing of a petition concerning strike action by doctors …

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