Revoking the shocking memories of Gorakhpur infant death of August 17, as many as dozen infants have died at the JK Lone Hospital in Rajasthan’s Kota within the last five days. With this, the death toll has reached 91. According to a newly appointed superintendent of the hospital, Suresh Dulara, out of the total, 14 […]

The World Health Organisation has pre-qualified a vaccine, PNEUMOSIL®, a vaccine against a leading cause of deadly childhood pneumonia – the pneumococcus bacterium. The vaccine was developed through a collaboration spanning over a decade between Serum Institute of India, Pvt. Ltd. (SIIPL) and PATH and with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The […]

The Indian Medical Association said that the police allegedly entering hospitals during stirs against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in violence-hit areas is ‘disturbing’. IMA also adds that such actions are unacceptable and the hospitals should be declared as ‘safe zones’. According to IMA officials, they’ve received reports from association members that in certain areas that […]

A recent incident where a doctor refused to treat an elderly patient at an outpatient department at a south Kolkata private hospital has created a stir among the public. Now, the doctors and hospital officials say that it was unethical to refuse an emergency patient even though medics were within their rights not to attend […]

In a first, NITI Aayog has asked the affected patients of J&J’s hip implants to help build consensus on the proposed regulation of medical devices. At present, India doesn’t have a law to compensate patients facing the adverse effects of faulty implants or medical devices. After the J&J hip implant case, which changed the lives […]

To provide better healthcare facilities for the people, the National Health Authority(NHA) has adopted the Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) for their claim at adjudication. These guidelines have been framed by the Indian Council of Medical Research Institute (ICMR). For developing the adoption and implementation of STG’s in the Ayushman-Bharat Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY), […]

The new draft rules issued by the Maharashtra state public health department notifies that patients cannot be detained for non-payment of hospital bills. ‘Under no circumstances, a dead body be withheld for non-payment of a hospital bill or any other reason’ reads the draft rules issued in July that seek to amend the Nursing Home […]

AIIMS Delhi and the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) are collaboratively working on a technique for postmortem without dissecting the body. According to Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, it is likely to be functional within the next six months. With its implementation, India will become the first country to start “Virtual autopsy” in the South-East […]

The ministries of home affairs and law and justice have asked the health ministry to revisit some of the provisions in draft legislation that seeks to check violence against medical professionals citing certain ambiguities and loopholes. During an inter-ministerial consultation, the ministry observed that while as a general rule, a non-bailable offence carries a term […]

The medical education regulator of the country has recommended the Union Ministry to cap the fee of MBBS course in the private medical colleges. If the Union Health Ministry accepts the recommendation, the fee will be capped around 8 lakh per year. The Medical Council of India-Board of Governors (BoG) based its recommendations on an […]