Family members of Uphaar Cinema fire victims pay homage during the 18th anniversary of the tragedy in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: The Hindu In the pre-privatisation era, public hospitals faced huge challenges in managing patients due to overcrowding, inadequate infrastructure such as beds and equipment, and limited resources. The 1990s were also the time…
New Delhi: The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) is preparing guidelines on processing and storage of human bones and aims to create a database of donors, recipients and hospitals with these facilities, as demand for natural bones for reconstructive procedures rises in the country. Processed human bones, or those that have been sterilized…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the government’s decision to open up the nuclear power sector to the private sector has opened up the way for scaling up nuclear power capacity in a big way over the next two decades. Speaking at the ‘Republic plenary summit’ organised by Republic TV, the prime minister…
Even as the government claims to have increased the number of medical education seats in the country, these medical colleges and institutes face a severe student enrollment crisis in post-graduate courses such as anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, forensics, microbiology and pathology, according to an official aware of the matter on condition of anonymity. This has…
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday targetted the Centre and Delhi government for the hardships of patients staying outside All India Institute of Medical Sciences in national capital. In a video shared on X, the Congress parliamentarian met with patients and their family members staying on road, footpaths, and subways. In the video, Gandhi, can be seen…
Resident doctors, interns and students of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Mangalagiri, continued their silent protest for the fourth consecutive day on Monday (August 19) to demand justice for the second-year postgraduate resident doctor, who allegedly got raped and murdered at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. In a letter,…
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Kerala’s much-anticipated and decades-long dream of having an All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-like institution on its soil was dashed yet again when the proposal found no mention in the Union Budget 2024-25 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on…
