Dr.Srinivasa Raju

  The following article is based on research that was conducted by Susmita Chatterjee of Public Health Foundation of India, Carol Levin of Department of Global Health, University of Washington, USA and Ramanan Laxminarayan of Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. The researchers considered five criteria, including  cost per OPD case, cost per inpatient (IPD), cost per emergency room visit and cost per surgery . For this, they selected five hospitals, based on their willingness to cooperate and the accessibility of hospital data. Two hospitals were from north India and three were from the south. The findings are based on data collected from April 2010 to March 2011.   Now it's 2022. so we may add medical inflation at 12% every year that mounts almost 100%. so, we read the figures by doubling them. FOR 140 crore people, the existing health care infrastructure is not enough. In India, government health care services are organized into sev...

Rather than commission of various regulations for qualified doctors, i am concerned more about so many issues that are omitted by the NMC! Why did NMC omit the serious issues like prohibition of  quackery,crosspathy&mixopathy and bridge courses? Why did NMC omit the rights of doctors? Why did NMC omit addressing the issues of rampant violence? When NMC is quasi-judicial & LEARNED MEDICAL BODY, why is there a need for CPA and civil litigations? Why did NMC omit the addressing of prolonged working hours that could affect the clinical judgment of the doctors? Why did NMC omit the addressing of insecure working places & disparity in stipend?  Why did NMC omit the addressing of deficit infrastructure that has been crippling the right treatment at right time? When responsibilities are prescribed, it's natural justice to highlight and assure the rights also! ------------------------ the above questions raised in my mind after going through the draft code. The National Med...

Vital Stats National Family Health Survey 5 Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya released the National Report of the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) in the presence of Shri Bhupendrabhai Patel, Chief Minister of Gujarat and Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, at the 'Swasthya Chintan Shivir' being held at Vadodara, Gujarat ON 5Th.May-2022.    The NFHS-5 survey work has been conducted in around 6.37 lakh sample households from 707 districts  of the country from 28 States and 8 UTs, covering 7,24,115 women and 1,01,839 men to provide dis-aggregated estimates up to district level.  The national report also provides data by socio-economic and other background characteristics; useful for policy formulation and effective programme implementation. indicators related to: (i) population, (ii) health and nutrition, (iii) access to infrastructure, and (iv) gender. The scope of NFHS...