Fractured Healthcare
India’s healthcare system has yet to match the country’s claimed growth in economy and living standards.
India’s healthcare system has yet to match the country’s claimed growth in economy and living standards.
The number of government-run medical colleges and hospitals in Odisha has increased from 12 to 14 in the last one year, the health and family welfare department officials said on Thursday.
A spokesperson of the State Health Authority (SHA) said that in response to communications from the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Haryana regarding its call for withdrawal of services, that all pending payments to empanelled healthcare providers are being processed and released in a timely manner.
The death toll in the explosion in a pharmaceutical unit at Pashamylaram near Hyderabad rose sharply to 32 on Tuesday, with about 15 injured succumbing at hospitals overnight.
Delhi Congress President Devender Yadav on Friday alleged that the patients admitted in the government hospitals are battling for survival amid heat-wave conditions in Delhi as the government made no elaborate arrangements for the surging temperature.
The region of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan is facing serious difficulties in accessing basic healthcare services due to a severe shortage of specialised doctors in various hospitals, Pamir Times reported.
Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani has tweeted on X, the launch of Adani Health City in partnership with the globally renowned Mayo Clinic, to enable world-class medical research, affordable healthcare and medical education at an investment of Rs 6000 crore.
The CMS, sole medicines and medical devices procuring wing under the health department, has also asked the MSVPs and CMOHs to withdraw all existing stocks of medicines, including saline supplied by the controversial manufacturing company from wards in state-run teaching and non-teaching hospitals.
Organising secretary of the West Bengal state board of the International Human Rights Council Utpal Roy has urged chief minister Mamata Banerjee to address the acute shortage of mental hospitals and government-run rehabilitation centres in north Bengal.
The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to file a detailed report through an affidavit on fire safety conditions in both the private and government-run healthcare institutes.
