Dr.Srinivasa Raju

  inherent lacunae in indian health care systems. The poor quality of services offered in the public health sector and lack of   scientific pricing policy over the corporate care’ and disintegrated pricing policy over   the pharma   sector are 3 main challenges in india. Ravi Duggal, a public health activist claims that the smaller private hospitals are still humane and are sensitive to patient circumstances. But corporate and big   hospitals, whose bed occupancy and revenues are dependent on insurance-backed patients or medical tourism patients, still try to maximise their revenues, often through malpractice. "This drives up the cost of care for most patients, and even with cashless insurance coverage, they end up shelling out huge sums out of pocket due to unethical functioning of such hospitals." Pricing of drugs Low drug prices are now history in India. The high cost has a direct correlation with drug prices. The earlier drug price control regime reined in the drug

  If a University change its name after graduation, should graduates use the original or the new name of the school in their CV?  should graduates refer to the original or new names in their CV if that takes place after their graduation?  indicating both names seems the most appropriate for a CV . To list both names for the sake of clarity. I would use the new name first and then list the previous name. For example on your CV you could write: MBBS - 2014-2020 YSR UHS  ( Formerly NTR UHS) Really the only situation where it might cause difficulties for you is if they ask to see your certificates as proof of qualification and the names differ between CV and certificate.   What do I do if my university name has changed and I have ordered transcripts with old university name with no mention of new name? Govt decision needs to be ratified by university by-laws and NMC & UGC. The decision of the state government to change the name of Dr NTR Health University as Dr YSR He

                        IMA AP STATE Retention Period of Medical Records- as per various Acts & Organization. (Before destroying the record the hospital has to give Advt. in two news papers,one vernacular paper. Out patient records 03yrs Inpatient records 10yrs Medicolegal case 30yrs or till the final decision of court Paediatric patients Till the patient becomes 21yrs old. Birth &death register Life time Casuality register & OT register 30yrs. MTP register 5yrs PNDT ACT 2YRS BMW ACT 5YRS INCOME TAX ACT 8YRS ICMR GUIDELINES-ART 10YRS-National registry Surrogacy bill 25yrs Consumer protection act 2yrs Civil litigations 3yrs Criminal laws

Union Health Ministry not to ‘pursue’ legislation, says RTI reply The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has withdrawn the draft legislation on protection of healthcare workers and healthcare institutions from violence, which proposed a jail term of up to five years and a fine of up to ₹5 lakh for the offenders.   Noticeably, around 278 cases had been registered under the provisions of the Kerala Health Care Service Persons and Health Care Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Act, 2012 of which 232 of such cases had been charge-sheeted and 28 were under investigation.  In AP, we didn't have reliable statistics. Majority of the doctors don't file the cases and didn't showing interest in pressing police officers to file the charge sheets. Instead  Doctors and hooligans opting  for settlements in spite of IMA's repeated advise. “The attacks on Health Care Workers or an attempt to intimidate or threaten them, for whatever be th