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233 Dead in Mumbai and Thane due to Water Borne Diseases

...ients condition confirmed for proper treatment, to avail of the facility which is done free of cost," said an official.. UNICEF personnel would be also be soon joining the BMC and conduct a door-to-door campaign for checking, testing and if necessary, admitting patients to nearby hospitals for further tr...

Free Condom Counters For Border Security Force Cadres

... S.K. Mitra. "A trooper who wants to have sex can avail of the facility without accounting for it," Mitra,... who are away from families for long periods can't avail of leave at their will because of national concerns." He said certain conditions made them prone t...

Time for A.R.Rahman to rock the Tuberculosis Awareness Programme

...ut the treatments available and encouraged them to avail of these. "Every individual is important for the country and hence it is better to be disease-free by availing of the treatment," he said. Organised by TB Action India, a TB advocacy NGO, the programme aimes at creating awareness about the disease ...

Herceptin Not A ‘Wonder’ Drug, Says The Lanct

...th some patients even taking the legal recourse to avail a prescription for the same. "Study results are preliminary, inconsistent and raise extremely serious concerns about safety," The Lancet's chief editor, Dr. Richard Horton, said. He added that he was angry that the NEJM had published this without ade...

Chhattisgarh Malaria And Typhoid

...hin next few days as the patients are reluctant to avail medical facilities made available to them,' Ali added. --IANS...

Relief for HIV/AIDS patients: ART therapy now available in India

...to this disease. People should seek counseling and avail ART therapy. This medicine would ensure a stress-free life,'' he observed. The disease generally reduces the life span of the patients. With this medicine their life span would increase by five to ten years. But the patient should adopt safer behav...

Jharkhand To Have Mobile Hospital

...ray, ECG and other testing machines and people can avail themselves of these facilities for just Rs. 5. No money will be charged for blood and urine tests. The state government had mooted the idea of mobile hospital in 2002-03. But it could not take off due to bureaucratic hassles. The mobile hospital ...

Health Insurance Scheme Generates Conflicting Opinions

...y year all households coming under the project can avail themselves of a maximum Rs.5,000 as outpatient expenses, Rs.30,000 for treatment in hospitals, and Rs.15,000 as hospital expenditure for every birth in a family. The annual premium per family works out to Rs.399. But each family has to pay just Rs...

Flu Shots Not Mandatory For Nurses

...hospital had asked the 600-strong nursing staff to avail the flu shots as a "fitness for duty" measure. In August last year, a labor arbitrator, Eduardo Escamilla had ruled for the nurses and the Medical Center had asked the Judge to nullify this ruling. But the judge said that the arbitrator was right and...

Health care system “Consumer friendly” by 207

... and easily accessible without waiting for long to avail a treatment....

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

...triving hard to do all that they can. They may not avail a specific treatment either due to poor awareness or due to confusion. This can lead to a rapid deterioration in the health status of the aged, yielding a totally different representation of the actual scenario. In most instances, even when caring ne...

Ofcom To Assess The Bedside Call Charges

... Ofcom made it clear that those who do not wish to avail this service can continue with their use of the ward-based payphones and the main switchboard. Derek Lewis who is the former prison director runs Patientline. He has his phones incorporated in about two thirds of the hospitals in England and rival...

Walk-In Health Centers Launched By The NHS For Commuters

...centers can get treated for minor ailments and can avail prescription services. It is anticipated that nearly 180 patients would visit each of the center, on a daily basis. The advantage of meeting a doctor or nurse without a prior appointment would save a lot of time and make the whole process simple. I...

Primary Care centers to provide out patient treatment

...hich is aimed at reducing long hours of waiting to avail health care facilities in big hospitals.// The new facility will allow the patients to see their physician in outpatient facility for general consultancy, general surgery, ENT, dermatology, gynecology and urology facilities without waiting for thei...

Transplant Head Honcho forced to dismount

...have its own team of surgeons and therefore had to avail the services of Marquis and another UCSD surgeon. Further, Medicare also decided to cancel the payment for UCI’s Liver transplants. Dr Hart was also part of a contract that allowed him to be a consultant surgeon for the UCI. The financial contract...

NHS Trust Would Soon Take On The Hospital Superbug

...her predisposing factor. A majority of those who avail the trust services are elderly or deprived, a group more susceptible to MRSA infection. In addition, the infection could also be transmitted from patients referred from other specialized health care centers. The increased in frequency of admission ...

Women Wake up Late to Heart Attack Symptoms

...women appear to take five times longer than men to avail emergency medical assistance, following a heart attack. // Researchers from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin studied the data from 890 patients who were admitted to six Dublin teaching hospitals, following a heart attack...

Oxygen Shortage Causes Panic Among Patients

...Patients in England and Wales are being advised to avail oxygen supplies from the NHS instead of the private firms, especially when it is required urgently. Acting chief executive Patrick McGahon said: "We are aware that there are some transitional difficulties with the new home oxygen service and we have...

Private Health Care in Canada May Not Be A Distant Dream

...t eye surgery. The public hospitals are allowed to avail the services of private clinics for procedures that will cause undue delay, six months or more to the patients. The plan will be submitted to the provincial Legislature for is approval before summer begins. ...

Rip Off: Care Less about Medicare $90m Fraud Deals?

...ian Medicare cards are being used by foreigners to avail free medical treatment, according to News Ltd newspapers’, announcement today. These phony deals have cost a mammoth $90 million dollar a year, according to agency reports.// The agency has reported a case of a Victorian, recently in the docks for...

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