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Medical Fraternity Urged To Revamp Indian Healthcare

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday expressed concern at India's health indicators, describing them among the worst in the world, as he urged the medical fraternity to revamp healthcare within the next decade//. ....Launching the golden jubilee celebrations of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, he exhorted policy planners and doctors to emulate the example of Kerala, whic...

Canada: Time up for Health Care revamp

There is skepticism about Canada’s Public health care system, with fear amongst people of what the changes might bring, causing a lot of ripples amongst people. The decade old system surely needs dissection, which will go a long way to revive the ailing healthcare.// ..Canada health care is notorious for prolonged waiting time for some treatments especially elective surgeries. Several Canadian...

Ontario’s Entire Drug System Undergoes a Revam

Ontario plans to revamp the drug system. Health Minister George Smitherman said that he would invest $3.5-billion more to improve the drug program//. He also said that he would introduce more changes that would make the drug system transparent and sustainable. They will also speed up the slow drug review process and ensure patients' voices are heard. The taxpayers have not received fair value for...

Education Structure In Indian Schools To Be Revamped Soon

India's Knowledge Commission will soon come up with recommendations to overhaul the country's education structure at the school level to make it more competitive//, and to accommodate more students, said its chief Sam Pitroda Thursday. ...."We will come up with recommendations on the undergraduate educational set-up in the next 60 to 90 days," he said, adding that a group has also been appointed...

Australian Drug Regulators Call for Revamp On The Pharmaceutical Surveillance

The drug regulators of Australia want the country's pharmaceutical surveillance overhauled, they argue that such a step could help to reduce deaths and disease that might be caused by faulty drug use // . ....The newspapers reported that the authority on prescribed drug subsidies, Lloyd Sansom, have said that Australia had already lost a chance of getting an early warning about the potentially l...

Revamping Of Healthcare System Required To Bring Down Preventable Medical Errors

According to the Auckland University School of Population health lecturers Mary Seddon and Alan Merry there is a sudden increase in the number of patients// who were victims of preventable medical errors. ..The article that was published in the New Zealand Medical Journal mainly focused on how careless attitudes of the medical professionals led to an unacceptable number of patients suffering adv...

Proposal to revamp WIC food package

Park Ridge: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made available a proposal to revamp the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program// for Women, Infants and Children, called the WIC in short. The USDA's proposal will look at reducing the quantity of eggs, milk and juice that form a part of the food packages. The proposal has indicated that the monthly quota for eggs be brought down...

The need to revamp cervical cancer prevention programs

According to experts who conducted a study of Australian cervical cancer rates, there is a pressing need to revamp the cervical cancer prevention program. //New vaccines against the causative virus and tests for its detection need to be introduced at a large scale. ....Currently, Australian women are recommended to get Pap smear tests done once in 2 years. However, the cancer experts say that th...

Healthcare system in Canada needs revamp

The Healthcare system in Canada can do with some improvements, as was revealed by the Common Wealth Fund Survey of Family Doctors and Pediatricians. Infact, Canada// was rated the least, in the use of information Technology in the management of healthcare services. ....It was observed that despite other areas being computerized, healthcare records were still stored as paper records. Further, Can...

Mega Project to Revamp Karnataka’s Healthcar

Bangalore: Karnataka has finalised an $800-million project to revamp its healthcare infrastructure and train health professionals //at the grassroots - a scheme that is expected to benefit over 45 million people. ....Health Minister Ashok R. said: "We need to strengthen our medical facilities at the village level and the project will certainly help upgrade primary healthcare centres (PHCs). The s...