vinayras's blog

It seems that the long wait to wheel out a first ever pentavalent vaccine in India under the national immunization program is over. As per reports, the Union Health Ministry has indicted the launch of the multi faceted vaccine to the state government of Tamil Nadu and Kerala as recommended by the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI).

As per health experts, the pentavalent vaccine can prove to be a cure for diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT), Hepatitis B and HIB (Haemophilus influenzae type B).

India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a study released Thursday.

One in five of all male deaths and one in 20 of all female deaths between the ages of 30 and 69 will be caused by smoking, said the study, conducted by a team of doctors and scientists from India, Canada and Britain and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dinesh Bhargava carries with him over 30 years of successful overseas practice in plastic and reconstructive surgery. But the US-based doctor is craving to start afresh in India.

"Having studied in New Delhi's prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College during 1964-73, I wanted, like many others, to pursue a career in plastic surgery in India. But there were limited opportunities then in India," Bhargava said.

He is among many doctors who went overseas decades ago in search of greener pastures, but who are now coming back to India.

Indian doctors, who come to Britain in search of cushy jobs and a better life have lately found that life is not that rosy after all. Out of nearly 4,000 Asian doctors who came here recently, 3,000 from India and 800 from Pakistan, a majority is said to be struggling.

Quite a few have run out of money and with no employment prospects in sight, they are considering going back home.

Indian and other overseas doctors working in the United Kingdom will no longer be able to have their specialist medical training funded by the Government under a new plan to be unveiled soon.

A ministerial group is preparing a move to impose the ban on training posts on all foreign doctors from outside the European Union in a bid to prevent thousands of British medics from facing unemployment, The Sunday Telegraph reported.

The Sawants, whose 12-day-old baby’s arm had to be amputated on December 12 due to alleged medical negligence, have lodged a complaint with the Kopri Police station against Dr Mahesh Gosavi, obstetrician and gynaecologist at Mata Vaishnavi Hospital in Kopri.

Residents of Ashtavinayak Colony and nearby areas are planning to protest against the doctors on Sunday.

The Sawants, whose 12-day-old baby’s arm had to be amputated on December 12 due to alleged medical negligence, have lodged a complaint with the Kopri Police station against Dr Mahesh Gosavi, obstetrician and gynaecologist at Mata Vaishnavi Hospital in Kopri.

Residents of Ashtavinayak Colony and nearby areas are planning to protest against the doctors on Sunday.

There are fears that some manufacturers of oral progesterone—the hormone administered to support high-risk pregnancy—are promoting the drug as a "tonic" even for normal pregnancy.

The passports of two Britons alleged to have travelled to India to buy kidneys in an organ transplant racket have been confiscated by police in the Indian capital, investigators confirmed yesterday.

The investigations in the kidney scam widened on Thursday with the police detaining at least five doctors at different places in north India. Some of them, according to the police, are likely to be arrested by Friday. This was the outcome of the raids conducted by Moradabad police at several places in Haryana, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, UP, J&K and Delhi on Thursday.

It will introduce significant changes in the organ donation laws and also launch a nationwide organ transplant awareness programme, it is reported.

Only on Thursday night, the police had cracked down on a circle of doctors who reportedly performed more than 500 illegal kidney transplants in the last eight years in the National Capital Region.

Doctor Amit Kumar, the mastermind of the racket, is still missing. His victims were mainly labourers who were promised jobs.

A kidney racket has been unearthed by the police in Gurgaon. A house in a posh locality had been converted into a hospital and a flourishing trade in sale of kidneys was running there. There were at least three doctors involved and the ‘donors’ used to be brought here by agents who worked in different cities in UP. The victims would be enticed with attractive offers and once the operation was done, they would be sent back with some monetary benefits while the kidneys would be sold to foreigners for huge sums of money.

Doctors from Asian countries Sunday condemned the illegal trade in human organs, urging their nations to promote donation for use in transplants. Doctors from Taiwan, China, Japan, India, Pakistan, Iran, the Philippines, the Netherlands and the United States took part in the second meeting of the Asian Task Force on Organ Trafficking.

The weekend meeting in Taipei, hosted by the National Taiwan University and Taiwan's National Science Council, aimed at exposing the trade in Asian countries and promoting measures to stop it.

Last week, nearly 70 senior doctors were transferred from the city's BJ Medical College to the Irwin Hospital, attached to Jamnagar Medical College.

The transfers took place with immediate effect. The reason: The state government wanted to fill up the teaching staff quota at the Irwin Hospital before the Medical Council of India dropped in for an inspection.

The absence of the senior specialists, however, is causing severe hardship to the patients at the Civil Hospital, who have been left at the mercy of Residents. Besides, studies at the BJ Medical College are suffering too.

eDoctors.in has launched a FREE Classified system for its Members. You can log on - eBharatAds.com and post classifieds.

Advertising through Our FREE Classifieds has got several benefits -

1)It will create brand awareness.
2)Classified Ad will always be there and it will result in marketing your product or
services 24 x 7.
3)It reaches Global audience and you get a good exposure for FREE of Cost.

You can either Register on the website and Post Classifieds.

OR

edoctors.in wishes all its members a very " Happy New Year ".

Times come and go.
We make mistakes and learn from them.
We plan things and implement them.
We try hard and sometimes don't make it to the top.

let this new year be a Prosperous one with No Worries and only Happiness. Lets Plan things and cherish each moment.

So lets celebrate for one grace day this leap year and shed our worries.

HAPPY NEW YEAR - Vinay

HELSINKI, FINLAND: After the big rush from the US and Europe, it’s the turn of Finnish industry to set sights on India to widen its global reach. Driven by innovative products and technologies, a clutch of small- and medium-sized Finnish companies have drawn up plans to step up their India exposure. The idea is to cash in on their advancements in R&D to increase revenues and profits using India as the key base.

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), the untreatable form, has now started to infect India's HIV patients. A study conducted by AIIMS's clinical microbiology department has revealed shocking results — over 33% of those enrolled for the study, with both HIV and TB, were found to be suffering from XDR-TB. What's worse, all the patients with XDR-TB died within three months of diagnosis.

The study conducted by a three member team, headed by Dr Sarman Singh, head of the department of lab medicine, has been reported in the November issue of the international journal 'AIDS'.

Indian doctors leaving the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) midway through their career might be barred from using the institute's name on their clinic boards or letters heads.

Officials said such advertisements actually resulted in "misuse of the institute's good name".

The proposal was brought up at the Institute Body (IB) meeting of the AIIMS on Thursday by some members. Health Secretary Naresh Dayal said, "We don't have a problem with doctors who have retired from AIIMS after completing their tenure and are now practising privately.

Having recorded two separate outbreaks of bird flu over the past two years, India has now formulated a full-fledged action plan to combat an avian influenza pandemic, when and if it comes.

According to authorities, non-pharmaceutical interventions will be vital in curtailing spread of the disease. India plans to target locations where transmission of the mutated H5N1 virus will occur. Schools and market places will be shut down and people restrained from visiting religious places or large public gatherings.