Dr.Srinivasa Raju

why the health care services have to be regulated? to maintain the uniform quality care throughout the country.  what the govt has done to achieve this objective? The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 ("Act") has been enacted by the Central Government to provide for registration and regulation of all clinical establishments in the country with a view to prescribing the minimum standards of facilities and services provided by them. is it enough to regulate only the  hospitals? No.  Health regulation means not only the hospitals but also it should cover various wings. Health is in concurrent list. so state govts also  have the right and responsibility. when states have this type of act, what is the need for the central act? As we all know, health regulation  in India encompasses a variety of factors and issues. These include promulgation of legislation for health facilities & services, disease control & medical care, human p

The ground level opinion is ,"  there is total system failure due to which the medical education system is fast sliding downwards and the quality has been hugely sidelined in the context of increasing commercialization of medical education and practice,"   so,the govt had constituted two committees. one is parliamentary committee and another is 3member committee headed by Nitiayog  Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya  .   1. The three-member committee has proposed to set up an altogether new body with three pronged approach - career, enterprise and ethics. 2. a parliamentary committee had called for revamping the MCI saying, it has failed in its role as a regulator which has led to a downfall in India's medical education system. MCI has failed to create a curriculum that produces doctors suited to Indian context, specially in rural and poor urban areas, the panel had said. It also failed to maintain uniform standards of undergraduate and postgraduate medical educati

Basing on 2001 survey by WHO: yes our country has enough doctors, if we take into account of AYUSH doctors. The study revealed that the density of all doctors — allopathic, ayurvedic, homoeopathic and unani — at the national level was 80 doctors per lakh population compared to 130 in China. but that is not the real problem.... the problem is rampant proliferation and abusive medical practices by non-qualified fellows ,termed as quacks. especially, the rural india is in danger,where 80% of the  medical aid  have been given illegally by these so called quacks. even though this study is basing on 2001 consensus, its alarming to note the same type of trends have been continuing still even in 2016.  the number for India fell to 36 doctors per lakh population. As for nurses and midwives, India had 61 workers per lakh population compared to 96 in China. The number reduced tenfold to 6 per lakh population, if only those with a medical qualification were considered. More th

NBE has been without a board since Dr Srinath Reddy's tenure as its president ended in October, 2014.  A health ministry notification dated June 17, and published in the gazette on June 20, named 14 people to the new NBE governing board.   MCI is to going to be scrapped and overhauled as decided by the PM. In this context, several senior functionaries of the medical  council finding a place on the NBE, which is set to assume a bigger role in post-graduate medical education. Remember, "PG medical education is even more lucrative than MBBS.  It is crucial that the NBE board be manned by people with impeccable credentials for integrity," Dr Abhijat Sheth, medical director of the 276-bedded Apollo hospital in Ahmedabad, has been nominated as board president. of the remaining 13 other members,   10 are ex-officio members while the remaining four members are nominated for five years. Four members have already been nominated - two professors from AIIMS, and Dr

Now, a magnet that may make surgical stitches history The new device, the Magnamosis, is a method of connecting the pieces using the attraction between two magnets, rather than staples or stitches. The new device, the Magnamosis, is a method of connecting the pieces using the attraction between two magnets, rather than staples or stitches. It consists of two ring magnets, each 23mm in diameter, which have concave or convex surfaces so that they fit snugly against each other. CSIR launches ayurvedic anti-diabetic drug BGR-34 AIMIL Pharmaceuticals will distribute BGR- 34, which has been priced at Rs 5 and will be available widely across Karnataka and neighbouring states.  Daruharidra (Berberis aristata), giloy (Tinospora cordifolia), vijaysar (Pterocarpus marsupium), gudmar (Gymnema sylvestre), majeeth (Rubia cordifoila) and methika (Trigonella foenum-graecum) to make the anti-diabetic formulation.