A key announcement in the Union budget presented on Saturday was the establishment of 200 cancer daycare centres in district hospitals in 2025-26. While these would serve to decentralize cancer care, experts expressed concern over the absence of enough skilled medicos to run them amid growing incidence of the cancers. The government aims to add…
The government may soon start taking feedback on the Universal Immunization Win (U-WIN) scheme which was launched last January to digitally record all vaccination services provided under the Universal Immunization Programme. The government may take feedback from all stakeholders such as states/UTs, vaccinators, doctors and beneficiaries so as to overcome the current challenges and make…
The Indian government replaced a system — the Medical Council of India, which was regulating medical education and practice for over eight decades — due to allegations of inefficiency and corruption. NITI Aayog was a strong proponent of this change, and even the judiciary advocated the need to improve medical education. The Medical Council of…
After stumbling upon a tweet about a few doctors from Madras Medical College’s batch of 1951 celebrating a birthday, I decided to visit these 90-plus-year-old doctors settled in different parts of Chennai, for a walk into the past. MMC Batch of 1951 reunion in 2022. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Some of the first women…
