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Budget
blues hit healthcare sector
The Union Budget, announced last month has once again failed
to lift the spirits of healthcare industry. The most badly
hit within the healthcare sector seems to be that of the medical
equipment segment.
AMC
presents memorandum on ISM&H and licentiate docs for rural
health services
The Association of Medical Consultants (AMC), Mumbai recently
presented a memorandum to the union health ministry on draft
national policy paper on ISM&H and licentiate doctors
for rural health services as contained in the Draft National
Health Policy.
Obituary
‘He
was a gentleman and a fine human being’
‘Hope springs eternal in the human bosom.’ That
hope I nursed in November when Dr Pritam Phatnani was admitted
to the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai.
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Health
Cell needed
Should the health of the nation, meaning health of its denizens,
be the sole responsibility of the health ministry, saddled
as it is with insufficient healthcare outlays? Come to think
of it, in absence of any national health insurance schemes
as in other countries, all citizens irrespective of their
earning capacities have to fend for themselves when it comes
to healthcare.
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