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October 01, 2002
The necessity of a workplace HIV/AIDS policy for Tata Tea Ltd. was significantly felt because Tata Tea, being an agro-based industry, is dependent on its huge manpower resources to sustain its operations. Perceiving the future impact of HIV/AIDS on this valuable and indispensable human resource, ...
July 01, 2002
It is estimated that over 2,000 adults and children have been killed in the Gujarat carnage since February 27, 2002. Over one lakh have been forced into relief camps, severely testing the medical community and health services. The state government failed in its duty to protect its people; numerou...
July 01, 2002
The Medico Friend Circle team interviewed camp inmates who had accessed hospital services in Amdavad, staff and patients in hospitals, and doctors working in various hospitals in Amdavad. The city's public hospitals are run by the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (L G Hospital, V S Hospital, and Sha...
July 01, 2002
Dr B is a private practitioner and honorary consultant in a municipal hospital in Amdavad. Dr B is Muslim. His clinic is in a predominantly Hindu area.
July 01, 2002
We visited Anand-Kheda(between Baroda and Ahmedabad). Sixty people died in the riots here, and thousands were rendered homeless in approximately 125 villages. Victims have received scant support from the government and voluntary organisations.
July 01, 2002
Vadilal Sarabhai (VS) Hospital is the largest Corporation-run hospital in Ahmedabad but also caters to poor patients from all over Gujarat. Set up some 70 years ago by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the hospital's constitution originally provided for an independent, eight-member board, balanced betwee...
April 01, 2002
Family practice is perhaps the oldest form of modern medical practice. It also involves the largest number of medical professionals. In India, where around 70 per cent of health care is now delivered by the private sector, family physicians form the largest group of health care providers coming i...
April 01, 2002
Hippocrates, had he been living now - in India, in Mumbai — would have been too confused to write his famous oath. Perhaps, he would prefer to have nothing to do with it.
April 01, 2002
It is a matter of concern that general medical practice as it should be is slowly disappearing in our country, especially in the urban areas. There are many reasons for this. Specialisation has a glamour and prestige attached to it, as a result of which specialists also make more money than do ge...
April 01, 2002
According to the Oxford New English Dictionary a doctor is a person who is qualified to heal an ill person. Today medical professionals have come a long way. Once seen as witch doctors-cum-magicians, now they stroll the corridors of high-tech hospitals with regal airs. In a dehumanising technical...