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Health ministry to finalise rural medical course soon Published on : Wednesday, June 02, 2010 The syllabus for the medica course for doctors working in rural areas is finalized. Most of the state governments are in agreement with it. There won't be specialization for these doctors. The planning commision of India says that India lacks six lack doctors, reports Sify News.
Health diplomacy’s soft power Published on : Thursday, May 06, 2010 Swine flu tested the preparedness of nations to deal with the problem in a equitable manner. Brazil's use of soft power in IR is worth following. Open source journal PLoS Medicine teaches us how diplomacy can do wonders for health care.Lack of internal accountability is something which India suffers from, writes Seema Singh in Mint.
Healthcare should not be a "human right": IPN report Published on : Saturday, January 02, 2010 The idea that governments should be legally obliged to provide healthcare for its citizens is now an apparently uncontroversial idea. The “right to health” forms the basis of policy for the UN, many international NGOs and national development agencies, and exists in the constitutions of many countries. However, the political and legal ascendance of the "right to health" is unwarranted and counterproductive, according to this new International Policy Network Report by Danish human rights scholar Jacob Mchangama.
The faces of rationed medical care: From fiction to fact Published on : Sunday, September 06, 2009 In this essay the living (Barack Obama), the dead (Ayn Rand) and two fictional characters (Kira Argounova and Leo Kovalensky) come together to reveal the faces of government-controlled, necessarily rationed medical care. Henry Mark Holzer compares the health care situation in Ayn Rand's novel "We the Living", with the current proposals on health care being debated in the United States.
Malaria is not the only threat in Mali Published on : Tuesday, December 16, 2008 The spread of pneumococcal disease is very fast. We often send patients home to wait for the results of their blood samples – usually because the hospital is full or the parents don’t have enough money to stay – but by the time we go to bring them back again, we often find a funeral, or the parents tell us the child died a couple of hours after they left the hospital. This is all the more tragic because it’s a vaccine-preventable disease, says Dr Samba Sow.
Medical Licensing: An Obstacle to Affordable, Quality Caress= Published on : Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Medical licensing not only fails to protect consumers from incompetent physicians, but, by raising barriers to entry, makes health care more expensive and less accessible. Institutional oversight and a sophisticated network of private accrediting and certification organizations, all motivated by the need to protect reputations and avoid legal liability, offer whatever consumer protections exist today, says Shirley Svorny
The WHO blueprint for increasing global poverty Published on : Sunday, August 31, 2008 The World Health Organization claimed this week that “social injustice is killing people on a grand scale.” The report revolves around the idea that relative poverty is an important determinant of health. The WHO recommends a host of policies to iron out inequality. But the whole inequality premise is a chimera. If we were to guillotine every capitalist, relative poverty would decline but absolute poverty would increase: trying to abolish inequality would wreak devastation on the global economy and adversely impact health, writes Philip Stevens in the South China Morning Post
Four blood banks to be set up in metro cities Published on : Friday, August 01, 2008 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved the setting up of four blood banks in the major metros that would function as centres of excellence in transfusion medicine, reports Aarti Dhar in the Hindu.
Healthy business, not public service Published on : Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Three examples of how increasing health care access in non-urban India makes as much business sense as increasing mobile access does. Retailers could actively build partnerships and create a trusted health ecosystem for their consumers. With increasing mobile access, telemedicine could overcome the last mile hurdle. Online personal health dossiers could hasten the diagnosis, writes Praveen Suthrum in the Mint
Over half of Indian kids under 5 lack healthcare Published on : Thursday, May 08, 2008 Over 53% children in India under five years - that is, 67 million - live without basic healthcare facilities. According to the State of the World’s Mothers report brought out by the Save the Children organisation , examined 55 countries that together account for 59% of the world’s under-five population and 83% of the deaths among these children, India ranks 27th along with Ghana and Eritrea when it comes to providing basic healthcare to its children, writes Kounteya Sinha in the Times of India
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