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Primer on BIOMEDICAL WASTE management- Doctor's Perspective'

  Biomedical Waste Management Rules were first implemented in our country on 20th July 1998. Thereafter, the rules have undergone periodic updates and amendments in the years 2003 and 2011. Latest Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016, and (Amendment) Rules, 2018, were an update and simplification of BMW disposal as compared with the previous versions   What is biomedical waste management and Handling Rules 1998? (1) Bio-medical waste shall not be mixed with other wastes. (2) Bio-medical waste shall be segregated into containers/bags at the point of generation in accordance with Schedule II prior to its storage, transportation, treatment and disposal. The containers shall be labelled according to Schedule III. Duties of the occupier  delineated clearly and simply in 1998 act: ·          No pretreatment of waste on-site ·          Chlorinated plastic bags, gloves, and blood bags were recommended ·          ETP not mandatory ·          The details of records not mandatory ·    

once gazette notification is released, then its legal document , irrespective of who its issued!

  What does gazette notification means? The Gazette of India is a public journal and an authorised legal document of the Government of India, published weekly by the Department of Publication, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. As a public journal, the Gazette prints official notices from the government.   What is the validity of gazette? Gazette is certificate given by government of India and is valid for life time, until you publish another gazette notification.   What is the purpose of gazette? An official gazette is the legal newspaper of a country, or of an administrative part of a country, which publishes the text of new laws, decrees, regulations, treaties, legal notices, and court decisions.   Is a gazette a law? The Gazette is an official Government publication. Government uses it to publish acts and bills, regulations and notices in terms of acts, changes of names, company registrations and deregistrations, financial statements, land restitution notices, liq

The status of medical education in India @ december-2022

Responding to the query in parliament on 14th.december-2022, the Minister Dr.B harati pavar ,    informed,  "A total o f 96,077 MBBS seats are available in the country out of which 51,712 in Government Medical Colleges and 44365 in Private Medical Colleges. There are 49,790 PG seats of National Medical Commission (NMC) available in the country, out of which 30,384 in Government Medical Colleges and 19,406 in Private Medical Colleges. There are also 12,648 Diplomate of National Board (DNB) / Fellowship of National Board (FNB) PG seats out of which 4185 in Government institutions and 8463 in Private institutions. In addition, 1621 PG seats are in College of Physicians and Surgeons ( CPS). " How many are appearing for NEET-UG Annually? 16 LAKHS.   That over 20,000- 25,000 Indian students go abroad every year to pursue their medical education. Which country does not require FMGE in India? However, candidates who have undertaken their undergraduate medical qualification from A

CAN WE EXAM&DIAGNOSE BLOOD AND URINE SAMPLE WITHOUT IN-HOUSE PATHOLOGIST?

  Remote town in hilly area. no transport and no laboratory and  no doctor. patient has to go to a town that is 100 km away to get his blood  or urine examination which is fundamental investigation to clinch the diagnosis in modern medicine. In many cases, critical diseases go undiagnosed till it is too late. This could be because of the lack of access to quality healthcare. It could also be due to the inefficiencies in the healthcare delivery system. Whatever the cause might be, the effect is ultimately tragic — unnecessary suffering and loss of human lives.  More specifically,  that there is one pathologist for a population of more than   65,000 people.  With the aim of making the life of the pathologist easier and thereby improving patient outcomes, their focus lies in automating the inefficient and error prone manual microscopic review process for the most common tests — blood and urine microscopy.  A Scientist Builds AI-Enabled Device to Help Diagnose Diseases in Under a Minute.-