Dr.Srinivasa Raju

Pending pleas pertaining to 22A land will be cleared soon’ Under Section-22A, there are several categories: 22 A 1(a)— all assigned land or land given to individual for a purpose and which cannot be sold or transferred; 22A 1(b)— land belonging to the Union and the State governments; 22A 1(c)—land belonging to Endowments Department, Wakf board or any religious institution; 22A 1(d)— land notified under ULC (urban land ceiling), and 22A 1(e)— land allotted by the government to institutions or private establishments for a purpose. Any land that falls under these categories and have been encroached or sold fraudulently, will come under this list and there will be no further registration, unless the case is considered by the revenue authorities and a NOC (no objection certificate) is obtained After a High Court order was passed in 2014, the then government had passed a GO citing that all government land that have been encroached upon be listed under the Section-22A, prohibiting the sale an...

                         India’s Progress In Digital Healthcare Ecosystem: To ensure inclusive welfare and universal access, the need for sustainable healthcare infrastructure is inevitable    (MoHFW) introduced the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines in March 2020, paving the way for regulated telemedicine practice in India.  The said guidelines deal with 1.physician-patient relationship,2. informed consent, 3.continuity of care, 4.referrals for emergency services, 5.medical records, 6.privacy and security of the patient records, 7.issues of liability and negligence, 8.evaluation, health education, and counselling. A planned rollout of the National Digital Health Ecosystem (including the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) that will consist of  1.digital registries of health care service providers and health care facilities, 2.unique health...

pandemic still not over!? virus is still evolving! “Living with the virus is proving much harder than the early vaccine success suggested: this fight is far from over.” The last large wave in India was caused by the omicron variant, particularly its BA.2 sub-variant. According to computational biologist Raj Rajnarayanan, of Arkansas State University, the most prevalent sub-variant in India as of June 24 was BA.2.38, which accounted for 36% of all sequenced isolates). It was closely followed by BA.2 (34%), BA.5 – the most worrisome of the omicrons sub-variants (10%) and BA.4 (1-2%). The BA.5 sub-variant has the most transmissibility and immune escape potential of any variant since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Some researchers have estimated that BA.5 is around 36% more infectious than BA.2 – the ‘original’ omicron variant.   Cell culture experiments revealed that BA.4 and BA.5 replicate more efficiently in human alveolar epithelial cells than BA.2, and that BA.5 fuses bett...

MORE THAN DOCTORS, INDIA NEEDS- policy shift and respect for the modern medicine! On  27-Jul-2022 - The Union government, counting AYUSH practitioners or professionals trained in traditional medicine at par with MBBS doctors, has claimed that  the doctor-population ratio in India is now 1:834 , better than the standard prescribed by the World Health Organisation (WHO).  The government aims to achieve the modern doctor patient ratio of 1:1000 -- as prescribed by World Health Organization (WHO) -- by 2024. Likewise, there is a shortage of medical education seats. Last year, a massive 1.6 million candidates appeared in tests for admission to some 90,000 seats in medical colleges.  Fees in private medical colleges are high, at times touching up to Rs 1.5 crore for a degree when a government college charges between Rs 70,000 and Rs 3 lakh. No wonder, parents often find a medical degree in countries like Russia, China and Ukraine cheaper than a privately acquired one in In...