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Avenues to opened for medical tourists following relaxation of visa regulations

... a National Accreditation Health Board to accredit hospitals to ensure quality healthcare. “Hospitals are already getting patients from abroad and the Government is now trying to regulate this for maintaining international standards in our medical facilities,'' Dr. Ramadoss said. He also emphasized the need ...

First PET-CT guided radiotherapy in India was performed by Apollo Hospitals

...ia. // Apollo Cancer Hospital is one of the first hospitals in the country with a PET-CT guided radiotherapy technology, Director, Vijay Anand Reddy reported in a news conference. PET is a Positron Emission Tomography and CT scan is a Computerized Tomography, by combining these two techniques, which are used ...

Unsafe Injections and Unclean Hand hygiene major cause of hospital infections in India

...clean and sanitized environment is required in the hospitals to prevent nosocomial infections, the World Health Organization has stated ahead of the 'Clean Care is Safer Care' program in Geneva. WHO is focusing a lot of its informative programs on Hand hygiene to doctors, paramedics, nurses and patients as Ha...

Non-Communicable Diseases Mounting Up At An Alarming Rate in India

...entres and 23,000 primary health centres and 3,222 hospitals in taluks, he said. Organising health camps would assist the Central Government in identifying health problems and formulating programmes accordingly....

Higher incidence of bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

...een January 1, 1998, and December 31, 2000, in 184 hospitals in Italy. Out of these, 235 BDIs were reported, with an overall incidence of 0.42%. There were no risk factors in 80.0% of the patients. Poor identification of the anatomical features of the hepatic pedicle was the most frequently reported cause (3...

Condom Vending Machines To Be Installed Across Indian States

...ral treatments //have already been initiated in 36 hospitals across the country. The priority of the Indian Government is to save millions of youth from falling prey to the disease. Inorder to increase awareness and promote community participation, of four-day unique mass mobilisation campaign named ''Goonj”...

Jumping The Queue Has Left Hospital Suspending Transplantation

In the US one of the top organ transplant hospitals in California has suspended its liver program following allegations a Saudi national improperly received an organ ahead of dozens of other needy American patients.// The Los Angeles Times reported that officials at St. Vincent Medical Center also d...

British Women Flies to India for Treatment of Breast Cancer

...s for India in the near future. Almost all private hospitals are attracting patients from all over the world. The medical treatment in India is available at a reasonable cost and can be combined with a holiday. It hence makes more economical sense for patients. Many patients are also combining the treatment wi...

Delhi Government To Interlink All Major Hospitals Through e-Governance

...ent of Delhi is planning to interlink its major 29 hospitals to share information about its patients and diseas...networking we are trying to interlink all the city hospitals under the Delhi government. The aim is to provide a citizen-centric single window information system...

Generic Drugs Usage In US Can Save $20 Billion – Express Script Surve

...apy classes is the same amount America’s community hospitals spend each year on uncompensated care for the uninsured.' The savings opportunity from increased use of generic drugs has never been greater. More than $50 billion worth of branded drugs will lose patent exclusivity over the next five years. In the ...

Telemedicine Project Implemented for Indian Railways

...subsequently will be connected with the specialist hospitals in the country. (Personal communication from Mr.Sandeep Sinha, Manager eHealth Strategy, TeleVital.) For more info please contact: Mr.Sandeep Sinha, Manager eHealth Strategy, TeleVital. Email: sandeep@televital.com A.U.Jai Ganesh, MSc, MBA.,...

Kottayam Medical College To be Upgraded

...left for many of these countries leaving the local hospitals facing shortages. Most of the India states have also depended on the nurses from Kerala....

Kalam Appeals to Eradicate Hearing Disability

...know that among the hundred and fifty fitted, Army hospitals account for nearly 70. In the last one-decade we have treated nearly 750 cases in all. That means we are able to reach only 0.075 percent of the affected population in the country, Kalam said. In the end the President concluded by saying that there ...

India - Favored Orthopedics Surgery Destination

...where between 12-24 months, leading private Indian hospitals like Max Healthcare and Apollo Group are among tho...loped by a British surgeon and being done by a few hospitals in India. It is yet to be approved by the US FDA. Patients are increasingly opting for surgeries li...

NABH Health accreditations final draft to be released by this month

... has become important// due to increased number of hospitals and physicians providing health care which may lea...itation system will help to monitor the quality of hospitals and treatment given to patients. Uniform accreditation system for health care industries consists ...

Emergency Treatment Found Wanting In Anaphylactic Reactions

...lanning” reviewed the anaphylaxis practices in two hospitals in a city and a suburban area. The researchers, Fariba Rezaee, M.D., and Joel Mendelson, M.D., Newark, N.J., found no stark difference between the two, but recommended that the guidelines should be followed religiously. And finally, a study titled,...

Dead Palestinian Boy Saves Lives Of Six Others

... heart, liver, kidneys and lungs were sent to many hospitals with the help of the national transplant centre. Besides the heart, the boy's liver was given to a six-month-old baby and a 56-year-old woman; his lungs were given to a 14-year-old girl; and his kidneys were given to a five-year-old boy and a four-ye...

India – Haven Of Medical Touris

...nt would soon identify a number of multi-specialty hospitals and expert doctors to cater to the increasing flow... of overseas patients. "The task of identifying hospitals and specialist doctors would be entrusted to a new body called the Accreditation Foundation of India...

An unlikely contender for speedy surgery recovery: Chewing gum

...but very practical study was conducted in American hospitals and presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco reveals that those who chew gum after elective colon resection surgery recover sooner than those who do not//. The study involves 102 patients undergoing elect...

Women Get A Raw Deal In Treatment of Heart Disease

... high-risk for coronary disease were often back at hospitals within a year due to the failure to get adequate treatment the first time around. As compared to men, women "don't have a higher rate of heart attack, stroke or death, but they do have increased rates for refraction [treatment-resistant disease] and ...

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