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October 01, 2000
One finds oneself agreeing with much of Dr. S.G. Kabra's views on abortion in India. The Indian State's interest in providing abortion services in the country, has as Dr. Kabra points out, been governed essentially by the exigencies of the family planning programme. The programme operates both fr...
October 01, 2000
The Maharashtra government is making moves to sell a newly-constructed wing of the state-run G.T. hospital in Mumbai to a private party to set up yet another private super-speciality hospital. At the same time, user charges have been introduced at all levels in municipal corporation hospitals.
October 01, 2000
On August 31, 2000, the Union Health Minister announced a "fervent resolve" to reach health care to every family in the country. The same day, a group of Indore residents submitted a memorandum to the minister against the forcible eviction of 70 out of 75 patients in a well-attended TB sanatorium...
October 01, 2000
Regarding my case study, it is heartening to know there are fora that do not shy away from voicing genuine and relevant issues.
October 01, 2000
In reference to Geetanjali Gangoli's report on the National Health Services, we should be least concerned about the problems of the NHS other than noting that such a system, like all socialistic systems, cannot survive in a demanding capitalistic environment. To expect the government to provide q...
July 01, 2000
A professor of surgery of the Madras Medical College was arrested in Andhra Pradesh for demanding Rs. 25,000 to pass a candidate for the postgraduate degree in surgery. This has blown the lid off a long-suppressed scandal in medical examinations in Tamilnadu. For near on to three decades now, it ...
July 01, 2000
In January 2000, the Bangalore Neurological Society organised an oration named after Dr RM Verma, one of India's great neurosurgeons and the pioneering spirit behind the NIMHANS. The society honoured Dr Sunil K Pandya, who needs no introduction to the readers of this journal, by inviting him to b...
July 01, 2000
An agency called C MARC (2 Bhaskar Mansion, 31 Sitladevi Temple Road, Mahim, Mumbai 400 016) sent its representative to 'survey' doctors regarding the kind of prescriptions that are written against a type of disease/disorder/condition. The aim is to collect 100 successive prescriptions from one d...