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NEET 2017 Scam : Arrests made

The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Rajasthan police had earlier arrested a gang involved in leaking this year’s NEET question paper. Now, a man alleged to be the kingpin of the racket was arrested yesterday from New Delhi.

 The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Rajasthan police had earlier arrested a gang involved in leaking this year’s NEET question paper. Now, a man alleged to be the kingpin…

A senior CGHS official told PTI that under a new process to be completed in a month, hospitals seeking to be empanelled by CGHS, which is under the ministry of health…

Court raise question on foreign medical graduates

Observing that it cannot allow public health to be at risk, the Madras High Court today suo motu impleaded the Medical Council of India and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as respondents in a petition.

A petition was filed by Thamarai Selvan, who sought a direction to Tamil Nadu Medical Council, to issue a certificate of provisional registration considering his application dated February 13…

No FIR against Doctors & Lawyers: Supreme Court

In an important decision Hon’ble Supreme Court of India said, that if the advise of a lawyer goes wrong in some way, even than no case under section 420 IPC or something like that can be registered against him/her. Though Supreme Court also said that Lawyer should take care of the interests of his/her clients.

  CBI has asked for advise of a Lawyer on title deed in a matter of loan.The lawyer…

Maharashtra CM appeals doctors to end strike

Municipal Commissioners have undertaken a security initiative for the protection of the doctors in the state.

In a two-hour long intensive meeting, the AMC (WS), the Director, the deans and the security chief among others made an individualised security plan for each hospital, defining everything clearly.

The plan lists the following instructions.

Different entry points for doctors, nurses,…

Delhi doctors join strike for safe working places

New Delhi:  Around 15000 resident doctors across 40 government Hospitals in Delhi, joined the Maharashtra resident doctors and called a mass leave today on Thursday from 9am-4pm, in support of their peers, who are demanding adequate protection at workplace so that doctors can work with out fear. While emergencies were working, OPDs of these 40 hospitals apart from AIIMS, New Delhi remained shut…

Dhule doctor loses vision in one eye after brutal assault

Mumbai: A senior orthopaedic resident doctor lost his vision in the left eye after being assaulted by relatives of a patient who had been brought in with head injury at the Government Medical College in Dhule on Sunday. One of the nine people who were arrested in the case later committed suicide in the Dhule police station.

The doctor, Kandivali native Rohan Mahamumkar, had asked the patient’s…

New in service quota rules for PG in Rajasthan

On the lines of UP and MP, now Rajasthan govt. also changed the rules for reservation in Post Graduate seats in the state for In service doctors serving in rural areas. As per the Supreme Court ruling, 50% reservation for in service doctors is unconstitutional, and in place the doctors can be given incentive in form of percentage of marks obtained in entrance exam. SC advised to give 10% marks…

Soon 50% Quota in PG for rural service

NEW DELHI: Faced with a severe shortage of doctors in rural areas, the health ministry has proposed 50% reservation of seats for postgraduate courses in government colleges for those who have served at least three years in public healthcare institutions in remote and difficult areas.

The proposal, part of the draft Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2016, also suggests that such candidates…

Supreme Court ask centre to finalise national health policy

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the centre to take a call on framing a National Health Policy by 31 December.

“In case the Union of India thinks it worthwhile to have a National Health Policy, it should take steps to announce it at the earliest and keep issues of gender equity in mind,” a bench comprising justices Madan B. Lokur and U.U. Lalit said.

Apart from this, the apex court gave at…

Bihar to get second AIIMS – Health Minister

Patna, Jun 18 : The Centre today promised second AIIMS to Bihar to strengthen its health infrastructure and assured cooperation in initiatives to improve medicare facilities in the state.

The announcement to open one more AIIMS in Bihar was made by Union Health Minister J P Nadda.

Nadda said after meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar that he has urged the CM to make land available for…

Resident doctors waste time drawing blood samples – AIIMS

NEW DELHI: Who should draw the blood sample of a patient: the doctor or the nurse? There seems to be a tug of war between doctors and nurses over this with the administration failing to clarify the issue.

Resident doctors have, in fact, gone ahead and declared they would stop doing it from August 26.

“No resident will draw blood samples of patients or generate barcodes as it is the duty of the…

Violence against doctors at LHMC, doctors go on strike

There was yet another incidence of violence against doctors at LHMC hospital in Delhi, where the resident doctors were beaten up, bitten and assaulted by the attendants of a patient. In protest the doctors went on strike.

  NEW DELHI: Three resident doctors at Lady Hardinge Medical College were today allegedly assaulted by the relatives of a three-year-old girl who died after being brought in…

Ayush doctors can prescribe allopathy medicine: Odisha

In a recent NEWS published in TOI, Odisha Govt is under the process of allowing Ayush doctors to prescribe allopathy medicines after a few weeks training in Primary Health.

  Bhubaneswar: The doctors of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH doctors) in the state will soon prescribe allopathic medicines.

The state government has decided to impart short-term trainings…

WHO report says 31% doctors in India are Quacks

Almost one-third (31 per cent) of those who claimed to be allopathic doctors (Quacks) in 2001 were educated only up to the secondary school level and 57 per cent did not have any medical qualification, a recent WHO report found, ringing the alarm bells on India’s healthcare workforce.

The situation was far worse in rural India, where just 18.8 per cent of allopathic doctors had a medical…

Indian System of Medicine practitioners cannot practice allopathy

The practitioner of ‘Bharatiya Chikitsa’ – Indian System of Medicine – such as Ayurveda, Siddha, Tibb and Unani medicine cannot practise modern scientific system of medicine including prescribing allopathic medicines, the Delhi High Court has said.

A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Rrajiv Sahai Endlaw said that allowing persons not holding qualification in modern scientific…

Max Healthcare to complete buyout of Saket City Hospital

NEW DELHI: Max Healthcare is set to acquire the remaining 49% stake in the erstwhile Saket City Hospital in South Delhi from BK Modi Group firm Smart Health City Pte Ltd for a little over Rs 300 crore, said a person familiar with the development.

Max Healthcare, one of the leading hospital chains in the National Capital Region, had in October last year acquired 51% stake in the hospital, which…