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Implications
for health financing reforms
As part of an effort to study and analyse the utilization
of health services and estimate healthcare expenditure, the
data was collected during 1996 from 450 household residing
in the three districts, namely, Banswara, Dungarpur and Udaipur
of Rajasthan.
National
centre for health and medical architecture proposed
The
Medical Architecture Workshop 2002, the first of its kind
in the country, organized by the Indian Institute of Architects,
Northern Chapter, in collaboration with AIIMS and co-sponsored
by WHO ended in high note, with the suggestion for setting
up a National Center for Health and Medical Architecture.
‘Government
hospitals need to be professionally managed’
The
government had trumpeted from the rooftops, the slogan, “Health
for All by 2000.” However in 2002, it has finally realised
that it is not only an unfulfilled dream, but also a cruel
joke.
‘Healthcare
facilities in government hospitals exist only on paper’
Concerned over total lack of coordination among the central
government hospitals in Delhi, a parliamentary committee on
health has said that various medicare facilities available
with the hospitals exist only on paper.
FDA
to set up cell for monitoring misleading ads
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will set up a separate
cell for monitoring misleading advertisements about medical
drugs and treatment from april one, FDA and excise minister
Anil Deshmukh told the legislative council recently.
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