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October 01, 2002
Increasingly there is a consensus on people's right to quality health care, including access to information and counselling services. Among the organisations which have spoken of health and human rights are the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the 1994 International Conference on P...
October 01, 2002
There is one subject related to health care workers, particularly nurses, that I have never heard discussed, whether in government or in private hospitals, where nurses form the largest workforce. I refer to occupational health safety for nurses in the context of blood-borne infections including ...
October 01, 2002
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) has dramatically declined morbidity and mortality due to AIDS in the developed world. However, rational use depends on multiple factors such as affordability and accessibility to drugs, a laboratory infrastructure to monitor therapy, trained physicians...
October 01, 2002
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has embarked on an ambitious programme aimed at controlling paediatric AIDS in the country. NACO has reason to believe that HIV prevalence among ante-natal women is more than one per cent in the high-prevalence states of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karna...
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...