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July 01, 2001
Unlike in the West, few of our medical professional bodies have bothered to lay down guidelines or to implement them. Nor are there any serious attempts to set standards in any field. The National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories, New Delhi (NABL), has been in existenc...
July 01, 2001
Bhopal is well known as the site of the world's worst industrial disaster in 1984. It is also the location of a medical disaster which continues to exploit the original gas victims today. Not surprisingly, the principal authors of both are the same.
July 01, 2001
The results of the assembly elections in Tamilnadu, which has seen the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam led by Jayalalitha sweep into power has come as a surprise only to the pollsters and the chatterati. Months before the elections, the portents were clear. Now that the results are in, t...
April 01, 2001
Kutch had been reeling in drought for the last two years. Now it got a 'bonus' in the form of an earthquake, as the locals put it. On January 26, 2001, the earthquake struck, taking down all communication lines. News about the extent of the damage travelled by road away from the epicentre. The su...
April 01, 2001
Many years ago, Lord Wellington, if I remember correctly, the hero of the battle of Waterloo received a letter from a woman. In it, she threatened to write in her memoirs, that she had had an affair with the British hero. Of course, for a stipulated sum of money, she would be happy to convenientl...
April 01, 2001
Come election time and the government's mind turns to thoughts of the people's welfare, or at least to the appearance of it. A perennial favourite of every government that wishes to show its commitment to the people's well – being is health care. So it is not surprising that the DMK government in...
April 01, 2001
Over the past decade, funding for international research in low and middle-income countries has grown. As research activities have increased, so has the number of complex questions concerning the social and ethical dimensions of collaborative research. While the scientific and lay press have begu...
January 01, 2001
The National Law School of India University, Bangalore, has started a one-year post-graduate diploma course in medical law and ethics. The first batch just passed out in October 2000. I am aware of this because I am one of the students in the second batch. Although it is a correspondence course, ...
January 01, 2001
The disposal of medical wastes has assumed critical proportions especially in cities. The system in India whereby there are numerous private nursing homes located all over the city, in both residential and commercial areas, has meant that the wastes are widespread. The current practice is to dump...
January 01, 2001
In this election year (2001), criticism by the opposition that there has been no increase in number of medical seats in West Bengal during the last 23 years of Left Front rule seems to have triggered off government action, of dubious worth. The government announced enhancements of 50 seats each i...