Ahmedabad
connected by EMS network
Ahmedabad has become the latest city in India to
acquire an ultra modern communication network for
Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
Indigenisation of DNA
probes needed; experts
To reduce the high cost of imported DNA probes and
ensure its continuous supply to hospitals, experts
have called for manufacturing of indigenous DNA
probes.
Liver
transplants plagued by high cost, lack of expertise
High cost and failure rate due to lack of professional
expertise deal a crippling blow to more than half
a lakh patients in India requiring orthotopic
liver transplantations (OLT) every year.
Conversation
‘There
is a need to look into the surveillance area more
seriously’
Dr Rajaratnam Abel, head of the department of
Rural Unit for Health and Social Affairs (RUHSA)
at Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore holds
a degree in Master of Public Health (MPH) from
John Hopkins University, USA and has specialisation
in health policy and planning, community nutrition
and controlling communicable diseases.
The
kidney trade again
In our scandal-prone Indian public life, one scandal
distinguishes itself by the amazing regularity with
which it hits the headlines every few years.
Designing
a trauma care centre
Care of the injured patient has been fundamental
to the practice of medicine since recorded history.
The word ‘trauma’ is derived from the
Greek meaning ‘bodily injury’.
AP
govt waives off user charges for govt hospitals
Soon after coming back to power, the new Congress-led
government at Andhra Pradesh has scrapped the collections
of User Charges (UC) in government hospitals of
the state through its G O Ms No 163 of 14th June
2004.
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