In the backdrop of Omicron, why are India‘s junior doctors protesting?

Nearly 45,000-50,000 MBBS doctors are awaiting NEET-PG counselling

Poorly regulated Medical Council of India could soon be defunct, what next?

If the National Medical Commission Bill, 2017 becomes an Act, the Medical Council of India will be replaced and doctors will not have regulatory …

Revenue targets, management staff making doctors pawns in corporate hospitals: Study

‘Corporate hospitals have reduced patients to factories’

Why is there a witch-hunt against doctors in India?

So asks a doctor as he narrates the plight of his tribe, which he feels, is being increasingly targeted in the country

As told to Parliament (April 5, 2022): India’s doctor-population ratio is 1:834

All that was discussed in the House through the day

From the blurbs

Medical Negligence and the Law in India, Duties, Responsibilities, Rights by Tapas Kumar Kole, OUP, Rs 950

Why knowing Ayurveda’s limitations and improving clinical exposure are important while teaching traditional medicine

There is urgent need to update Ayurveda curriculum while also evolving it on its fundamental principles

Children dead in Firozabad: How poor health services, official laxity burdened UP city

As many as 41 people, including 36 children, have died of dengue fever so far  

Nation without doctors

Shortage of medical staff is a major challenge to Kenya's healthcare sector

COVID-19: Did IMA meet lead to hundreds of doctors in Bihar testing positive

Out Patient Department and other healthcare services affected in Bihar due to sheer number of infections among doctors, say reports

Families of 120 of 121 doctors who died of COVID-19 in Bihar yet to get compensation

The delay in compensation have demoralised doctors who are living in fear after the recent spate of deaths in the state

Where are the doctors’ bodies when common man suffers due to poor treatment?

Notwithstanding lack of government support, the medical associations are strangely absent whenever the needy suffers due to unethical practices, …

Poor infrastructure, staff crunch continue to plague healthcare in rural India: Centre

Less than half the Primary Health Centres function on a 24x7 basis

Why Cuban doctors deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

Cuban medical workers are risking their health to break the chain of COVID-19 infection. They have also developed drugs to help fight the disease

Junior doctors protest mandatory rural posting for PG admission

Health officials say if medical graduates have problems with poor infrastructure they should demand better facilities instead of making it an …

Faculty shortage continues to plague AIIMS across India

AIIMS Rajkot fares the worst, where only 40 of the 183 sanctioned posts have been filled

Too hot, heading south: how climate change may drive one-third of doctors out of the NT

If they do, this would leave a large gap in the territory’s health-care system, which already suffers from a fast turnover of staff

Antibiotics: even low use in children can have a negative impact on health – new research

Preschool children who had taken 2 or more antibiotic courses for acute respiratory tract infections in the preceding year had around a 30% …

Violence by State in hospitals unacceptable, says IMA

Doctors’ body condemns denial of care to protesters by police, establishment  

Ayurveda: Regulation of this alternate system of medicine is urgently needed on many fronts; here is why

Ayurveda’s popularity has arisen since the pandemic; but many still equate ‘natural’ and ‘traditional’ with ‘…

Dearth of doctors: Odisha lets pharmacists prescribe meds from a list

As many as 1,286 posts of doctors of the 8,729 sanctioned for government hospitals are vacant.   

Massive surge in COVID-19 infections in Uttarakhand’s remote villages. But who will treat them?

Residents in several villages report symptoms but not tested; many doctors and medical officers infected 

COVID-19 Surge: The battle to save lives amid scarce resources

Community health experts and microbiologists in Karnataka suggest the second wave wasn’t unexpected but the quantum was not assessed …

DMF best practices: How Bijapur started a new healthcare model

Mining-affected districts have hired doctors, upgraded hospitals and improved last-mile healthcare access to communities with mining-related …

In Rajasthan, many newborns have not been vaccinated for eight days now

Health services are hit since 12,000 health workers are on strike to demand better salaries and timely promotion