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Dialysis in mobile van rolled out in Bangalore
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Sunday, August 01, 2010 |
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A mobile van was rolled out by the former president APJ Abdul Kalam with an aim of taking dialysis to patients with severe kidney problems. When kidney failes transplant and dialysis are the only treatment options. Mobile dialisis is a boon for patients, reports the medguru. |
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NIV director says take vaccine only on doctor's advise
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 |
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The National Institute of Virology (NIV) A C Mishra adviced that you can take shots to prevent the Influenza A H1N1 virus only if the doctor has advised you, and only at proper hospitals. The present weather, he said, is conducive for the spread of swine flu, reports The Times of India. |
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UK Seeks Indian Doctors To Fill Shortage
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 |
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United Kingdom is about to recruit hundreds of physicians from India. The immigration rules were made strict in the recent past. Moreover, regulation on doctors working hours have led to shortage of doctors. Several medical training schools are recruiting from India, Reports All Headline News.
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Premji Foundation extends focus to health
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
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The Azim Premji Foundation has decided to set up ten resource centres in ten different districts in the next one year. The foundation plans to duplicate it in 626 districts of India. The plan is to work with the Government in solving the problems of health and nutrition, but the foundation doesn't want to restrict it to the Government, writes Poornima Mohandas in Mint. |
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ICT solutions to transform healthcare
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Monday, May 10, 2010 |
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Apollo Hospitals, Asia's largest health care provider, and Cisco today announced an alliance to help transform health care through information and communications technology (ICT), reports The Economic Times. |
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Doctors' strike in Patna: Claims of 38 lives lost
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Monday, August 31, 2009 |
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A five-day old strike by 400 junior doctors at the Patna Medical College and Hospital, has paralysed services. The doctors are demanding a hike in stipend and salary. Lack of doctors in the emergency ward, is believed to have led to most of the deaths. Hospital authorities have denied that any death was caused by lack of care. |
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Six pregnant women die in two days in Bhopal: Overcrowding in hospital
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
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The overwhelming response to a Madhya Pradesh’s Janani Suraksha scheme that seeks to promote institutional deliveries has taken its toll on the already crowded Sultania Women’s Hospital in Bhopal. Since the scheme had many takers and government hospitals in many towns found it difficult to cope with the rush, the government tied up with private hospitals, reports Milind Ghatwai in Indian Express. |
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Incubator deaths: fire kills infants in Punjab, minister resigns, doctor suspended
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Monday, February 02, 2009 |
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The fire at the state-run Rajendra hospital was apparently caused by the overloading of a lone plug from which power was sourced for the photo-therapy unit which treated babies for jaundice. Heaters and other electrical gadgets were also connected to the plug in the same unit. There was no explanation from the hospital on why, in violation of World Health Organisation norms, there was no nurse or doctor present in the room. To add to confusion, there was no emergency light or telephone or intercom to summon help. A day later,Punjab's Minister for Medical Education resigns. |
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IT major team with AP govt to deliver emergency health care
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Friday, August 22, 2008 |
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By combining technical knowhow from IT major Satyam, with government funds, Andhra Pradesh state is creating the most far-reaching program in the world to deliver medical services to the masses by Steve Hamm Business Week |
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India's sick poor turn to unlicensed doctors
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 |
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Hundreds of thousands of unqualified doctors, without any formal training, work across India providing health care. An estimated 40,000 of them in Delhi's teeming slums alone. For years, the government has waged an unsuccessful war against quack doctors, but now a report compiled by the prominent All India Institute of Medical Sciences recommends training and incorporating them into the formal health care system, which suffers from a dearth of physicians and nurses, writes Hannah Gardner in the San Francisco Chronicle |
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