Mumbai: A Parliamentary committee has uncovered a nexus between doctors, government bodies and pharmacy companies to approve new drugs without the mandatory clinical trials. The doctors from top hospitals wrote to the country's Drug Controller General, to allow new drugs to be marketed, without clinical trials - a shocking lapse, highlighted in this Parliamentary standing committee report. Drug expert CM Gulati said, "All of them are compromised. We've got the...
06:16 AM, May 14, 2012
London: Patients left stranded on trolleys for hours and forced to have treatment in corridors is becoming a familiar scene in British hospitals, presenting a "worrying picture" for the authorities. Nurses in Britain say patients are being forced to have treatment in corridors partly due to the loss of hospital beds, the BBC reported. The Royal College of Nursing says feedback received from more than 1,200 staff paints a "worrying...
08:09 PM, May 13, 2012
Mumbai: A committee set up by the Maharashtra government to review the performance of charitable hospitals has found that a court directive to treat the poor patients is not being followed. The committee report says that on an average only 4.03 per cent of the earmarked beds are used for charity. The Bombay Hospital here has 142 beds earmarked for charity, out of the total 701. It can treat 1,065...
09:52 AM, May 13, 2012
Patna: Once feared as "death trap" because of their unhygienic conditions and poor service, the new-look government hospitals in Bihar have seen over 100 per cent jump in footfalls. People's reposing faith in the government medical institutions could be gauged from the fact that while in 2006 only 39 patients used to visit primary health centres (PHC) per month, it has shot to 3,500 to 5,000 patients per month in...
10:13 AM, May 06, 2012
Faizabad: Taking note of the CNN-IBN Cobrapost expose on sale of babies in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said on Sunday that he will look into the matter. "If anything of the sort is found, we will ask the district administration to help the families," he said. The young Chief Minister also promised to ask the district administration to help in the investigations and contact the concerned families. The...
01:30 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Muzaffarnagar: A woman gave birth to a child in a jeep after a government hospital allegedly refused to admit her at Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district, officials said. The incident took place on Sunday when Vikram brought his wife Nilam to a primary health centre in Baghpat after she complained of labour pain. He alleged that doctors at the health centre demanded bribe to admit his wife. Vikram then decided to...
01:49 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: The Indian healthcare industry is rapidly growing at 12 per cent but yet the sector is in shambles. The sector, therefore, has high expectations from the Union Budget, both for reforms and expenditure. India's healthcare industry is currently valued at $ 65 billion. Assocham and rating agencies expect it to hit $ 125 billion by 2015. Yet, the sector is in shambles, with just one hospital bed available for...
10:14 AM, Mar 13, 2012
By Ranjit Shahani As 16 March draws close, Indian healthcare is once again at the crossroads waiting with bated breath for the Union Budget in the hope that it will provide the necessary impetus to the pharmaceutical industry. Announcing Infrastructure status for Healthcare would be just what the doctor ordered. The reality is that rural and semi-urban India lacks even the most basic healthcare infrastructure. Since setting up facilities in...
06:31 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Emergency services in government-run hospitals in Andhra Pradesh are likely to be hit with junior doctors on Friday deciding to intensify their strike. With the government ruling out talks with the striking junior doctors till they call off their protest, the medicos have decided to boycott emergency services from Friday evening. They said if the government failed to come forward for talks on their demands by 5 p.m., they...
03:51 PM, Feb 10, 2012
CHENNAI: Healthcare in the State and the country is in the hands of the private sector, as shown by a white paper on private-public partnership in the health sector, released on Saturday. According to the findings of the study, conducted jointly by the AIDS Prevention and Control (APAC) Project, Voluntary Health Services (APAC-VHS), IIT-Madras, MSG Strategic Consulting with the support of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the...
08:50 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Some relief for patients in Rajasthan, even as the strike by government hospital doctors entered its 5th day. Army doctors have started work and emergency services have been restored in some hospitals. The government will also start fresh recruitment within 72 hours after 5000 government doctors resigned on Friday. ...
10:20 AM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: Medical services remained affected in government hospitals in Rajasthan as the strike by doctors entered its third day on Friday. The government began a crackdown on Thursday and nine doctors were suspended. Efforts are on to break the deadlock. Over 6,500 doctors are on strike, demanding pay parity with doctors in the Central Government hospitals. They decided to stop work after talks with the Ashok Gehlot government collapsed....
09:01 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Jaipur: Medical services at government hospitals in Rajasthan have taken a hit after 6,500 in-service doctors have gone on an indefinite strike. 3,000 resident doctors have joined in as well. The doctors have been demanding pay parity with doctors at the Central Government hospitals. They decided to stop work after talks with the Ashok Gehlot government collapsed. The government invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act and arrested 14 doctors on...
09:41 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Kolkata: A four-member probe team from fire services department on Monday visited a number of private and government hospitals to review fire-fighting arrangements there to avoid disasters like AMRI. "The Government is committed to taking stern action against those flouting fire safety norms. NOC for fire safety compliance is mandatory for all as we don't want such disasters to take place again," state's Disaster Management Minister Javed Khan said here...
11:27 PM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Kolkatas AMRI hospital tragedy has raised serious questions about the safety of other hospitals across the metros. CNN-IBN decided to do a status check of the medical institutes in the major metros and what they found was certainly not very encouraging. In Delhi, they found most of the major private hospitals were complying with the latest fire safety norms but the government hospitals are lagging behind. Three...
06:29 AM, Dec 11, 2011
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