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31 test positive for HIV in Pakistan
Thirty-one of 2,500 persons were found to be HIV positive during a screening programme for the virus conducted in Pakistan's Sindh province on Saturday, health authorities said
Doctors at many hospitals in Delhi protest on Saturday over WB violence
Scores of doctors from several government hospitals here, who could not join a nationwide stir on June 14, Saturday protested in solidarity with their striking colleagues in Kolkata. Doctors at the Centre-run Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and RML Hospital, and Delhi government facilities such as Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and DDU Hospital, boycotted work and held protests. On Friday, a majority of hospitals in Delhi had joined the country-wide agitation in support of the doctors in West Bengal, on a call given by the India Medical Association (IMA) and various resident doctors' associations (RDAs). However, many hospitals could not join the protest on June 14 as they had not submitted the 24-hour advance notice to the government as required by protocol. So, they are observing a bandh on Saturday, President of Federation of Residents Doctors' Association (FORDA) Sumedh Sandanshiv said. However, ICUs and emergency wings of these hospitals are functioning, he ...
Delhi: AIIMS doctors calls off strike, issue 48-hour ultimatum to WB government
Medical practitioners at AIIMS Delhi on Saturday called off their protest and gave a 48-hour ultimatum to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to fulfil the demands.In their ultimatum, the Resident Doctors Association (RDA) at AIIMS stated that if the demands are not met within 48 hours, they would be forced to resort to an indefinite strike at the Delhi hospital."All the junior and the senior resident doctors are back to work but we are continuing the protest. We are holding symbolic protest by wearing black badges, helmets and bandits. We have given 48-hour to the Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal health minister to meet our demands, failing which we would be forced to resort to an indefinite strike from June 17," said Amarinder Singh Malhi, President, Resident Doctor's Association AIIMS while speaking to ANI.Junior doctors in Kolkata have been on strike after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured over an issue of alleged negligence at the NRS Medical ...
Cannabis edibles expected on the market in Canada by year's end
Canada expects to start sales of cannabis-infused edibles by mid-December, while prohibiting pot products that might appeal to children such as gummy bears or lollipops, the government announced Friday. The new regulations -- which follow last year's legalization of recreational cannabis use -- will come into effect on October 17. They will also apply to cannabis extracts and topicals. However, officials told a media briefing that the new products are not expected to hit stores before mid-December as this relatively new industry takes off slowly and adjusts to consumer tastes. "The amended regulations are the next step in our process to reduce the risks to public health and safety from edible cannabis, cannabis extracts and cannabis topicals and displace the illegal market for these products in Canada," the government's point man on cannabis, Bill Blair, said in a statement. Under the new regulations, cannabis-infused food or drink will not be permitted to contain more than 10 ...
Mamata blinks, invites agitating doctors again to meet her Saturday
With striking junior doctors refusing to meet her tonight, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday invited them again to meet her Saturday evening to end the impasse in government hospitals. The doctors, who struck work for the fourth day Friday, refused to meet the chief minister, demanding an unconditional apology from her. They also put up six conditions for withdrawal of their stir. "We want an unconditional apology from Chief Minister Banerjee for the manner in which she addressed us at the SSKM Hospital yesterday. She should not have said what she said. She should come to the NRS Hospital to meet us," said Dr Arindam Dutta, a spokesperson of the joint forum of junior doctors. After her visit to the state-run SSKM Hospital Thursday, Banerjee had alleged some outsiders had entered the medical colleges to create disturbances. She had also dubbed the agitation as a handiwork of the CPI(M) and the BJP. She had also asked the agitating junior doctors across the state to ...
Caregivers of dementia patients can benefit from Virtual Reality
Cases of dementia in care homes are on a rise, but carers are often associated with a lack of empathy towards their patients.A caretaker is believed to be driven by a number of factors to provide empathetic care to patients with dementia - even healthcare professionals have demonstrated a lack of understanding towards such patients.However, with the advancement of technology, caregivers can now benefit from virtual and augmented reality experiences which equip them with compassion towards the patients, reports Medical Device.One such VR or AR experience can be taken by exTraining2Care's mobile virtual dementia tour (VDT).The carers undertaking dementia care training witness the VDT simulating the mental and physical challenges being faced by dementia patients. Using sensory stimulation devices and instruction, the VDT simulation bombards the senses to deliver an experience which is designed to be as close to really having dementia as possible.Through this tour, carers have the ...
Doctors' protest: Union Health Min seeks Mamata's intervention, says country 'adversely affected'
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urging her to "personally intervene" to resolve the woes of agitating doctors in the state."I take this opportunity to urge upon you to personally intervene in resolving the current impasse and taking steps to provide a secure working environment to doctors in the state of West Bengal. The entire country is being adversely affected due to developments in West Bengal and therefore ensuring an amicable end to the agitation will be beneficial and is strongly warranted. The Government of India is with you in this endeavour and is hilly willing to provide any assistance you may need in this regard," the Union Minister said in his letter to Mamata."It is our duty to provide good working conditions and a secure environment for them. Strong action against any person who assaults them must be ensured by the law enforcement agencies. At the same time, doctors must also be oriented towards ...
No response yet from CM : WB Governor Tripathi on ongoing doctors strike
Amidst the ongoing protest by the medical fraternity in Kolkata, West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi said he had called West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to discuss the matter but has not yet received a response from her."I have tried to contact the Chief Minister, I have called her, till this moment there is no response from her, if she calls on me then we will discuss the matter. I have called her, let her come," said Tripathi.The protest by the medical fraternity against the assault on intern doctors in Kolkata spiralled throughout the country with doctors from several states showing their solidarity even as the Indian Medical Association sought a central law to check violence against doctors.The IMA also issued a call for shutting of non-emergency services across hospitals in the country on June 17 to express their protest, which began on June 10 after two interns were assaulted by a mob in NRS college in Kolkata.From Jaipur to Hyderabad and Guwahati to Madurai, ...
No sign of end to WB doctors' strike; support pours in from states
Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal Friday were in no mood to relent as they demanded Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unconditional apology and set six conditions to the adminstration for withdrawal of their stir, which has disrupted healthcare services in the state and spiralled to other parts of the country. Over 200 senior doctors of various state-run hospitals across the state tendering resigned from their services to show solidarity with the agitators. Late in the evening, Banerjee met the senior doctors and later invited the agitators for talks on Saturday but they declined the offer. "We want unconditional apology of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the manner in which she had addressed us at the SSKM Hospital yesterday. She should not have said what she had," a spokesperson of the joint forum of junior doctors, Dr Arindam Dutta, said. As the medical fraternity from across the country began to rally behind their Bengal colleagues, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ...
Suicidal tendencies linked to rheumatic, musculoskeletal diseases, claims study
A new survey has revealed that pain due to rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) impacts the mental health of people and they are more likely to have suicidal thoughts.The results were presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2019)."This survey highlights the huge importance of pain on the psychological well-being of RMD patients and the critical need to improve the support on offer," said Professor Thomas Dorner, Chairperson of the Scientific Programme Committee, EULAR.The study conducted a survey on over 900 RMD patients which revealed that pain had caused one in ten to have suicidal thoughts within the previous four weeks. Pain also caused 58 per cent to feel that everything was unmanageable for them.Another important finding was a reciprocal relationship between sleep and pain where 69 per cent people identified the quality of their sleep as having a negative influence on their pain. In return, two-thirds of patients rarely or never felt fully ...
Delhi medicos 'cease work' in solidarity with Bengal docs, IMA calls strike
As the crisis in the healthcare services deepened because of the doctors' strike in West Bengal and a number of other states, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Friday also called for a nationwide strike on June 17, while demanding safe working conditions for doctors.
Another Trinamool leader's son raises his voice, stands with NRS docs
Trinamool leader and Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar's son, himself a doctor by profession, on Friday strongly condemned the attack on junior doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital here.
Nipah alert in Guna, Gwalior; advisories issued
The death of hundreds of bats in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district has raised alarm in the area and fear of the spread of the Nipah virus. The administrations in Guna and Gwalior districts issued health advisories on Friday.
Jharkhand medicos demonstrate in support striking WB doctors
Doctors of three state-run hospitals across Jharkhand staged demonstrations wearing black badges on Friday to express solidarity to the striking junior medicos of West Bengal, an official of a doctors' association said here. Doctors of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences here, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Medical College and Hospital at Jhamshedpur and the Patliputra Medical College & Hospital in Dhanbad took part in the demonstration, he said. "Doctors at the three hospitals demonstrated and wore black badges to show solidarity to the junior doctors of Kolkata who were agitating following an assault of two of them by a patient party," Dr Ajay Kumar, the Convenor of Indian Medical Association (Jharkhand Chapter) told PTI. Two junior doctors were seriously injured in an attack by relatives of a patient who died in the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, triggering a state-wide agitation. Kumar said assaults on doctors have increased in the country
Vardhan supports demand for a central law to check violence against health care workers
In the wake of country-wide protests by doctors after attack on two of their colleagues in Kolkata, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday supported the medical fraternity's demand for a central law to check violence against health care workers in hospitals and said such crimes should be made non-bailable. "Heinous repeated attacks on doctors across India esp WBengal have led to this situation.Govt must pass a Law to make any attack on Docs a non-bailable offence with min 12 yr jail. Draconian Clinical Establishment Act that treats Docs as criminals must be withdrawn (sic)," Vardhan tweeted. His tweet came hours after the Indian Medical Association launched a four-day nationwide protest from Friday and wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanding enactment of a central law to check violence against health care workers in hospitals. Reacting to Vardhan's remarks, the IMA thanked the central government for responding positively to its demand. "IMA wholeheartedly thanks the ...
Attack on doctors should be non-bailable: Harsh Vardhan
Amid country-wide protests by doctors in solidarity with the striking doctors of West Bengal, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday urged the government to pass a law that makes any attack on doctors a non-bailable offence.
Junior doctors in MP abstain from work for half day
Junior doctors at government hospitals attached to medical colleges in Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior and Rewa abstained from work for half a day on Friday to express solidarity with their counterparts in West Bengal. The protest affected the health services in these hospitals. "Junior doctors in government hospitals attached to medical colleges at Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior and Rewa did not attend to the patients visiting the out patient departments (OPD) for half a day to show solidarity to their counterparts in Kolkata," president of Madhya Pradesh Junior Doctors Association, Dr Sachet Saxena, told PTI. Junior doctors across the country were working in difficult condition as they were falling victims to violence and attacks, he said.
Doctor assaulted in Kolkata: Medical Fraternity across the country joins protest to show solidarity
The protest by the medical fraternity against the assault on intern doctors in Kolkata spiralled throughout the country with doctors from several states showing their solidarity even as the Indian Medical Association sought a central law to check violence aginst doctors.West Bengal Governor Kailash Nath Tripathi called Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for discussing the matter but she was yet to respond.The IMA also issued a call for shutting of non-emergency services across hospitals in the country on June 17 to express their protest, which began began on June 10 after two interns were assaulted by a mob in NRS college in Kolkata.Tripathi told the media in the evening that he had called Banerjee and "till this moment there has been no response".He said if she meets him he would discuss the issue with him. When pressed further, the Governor said "I have called her. Let her come."From jaipur to Hyderabad and Guwahati to Madurai, the doctors took to the streets to register their ...
WB strike: DMA joins solidarity protest, doctors march to Rajghat
The Delhi Medical Association (DMA) Friday extended its full support to the protesting doctors in West Bengal even as it asserted that medical facilities and number of doctors need to be augmented to address issues related to patients. Scores of doctors under the umbrella of the DMA also held a dharna in front of its office in Daryaganj and later marched to Rajghat. "We do not believe in violence, and that is why we marched to the samadhi of Gandhiji this afternoon and paid tribute to him. He taught us to resolve every issue amicably with non-violent measures. So, family members of patients should not resort to violence," DMA president Dr Girish Tyagi told reporters. Junior doctors in West Bengal are on strike since Tuesday after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured allegedly by relatives of a patient who died at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. At a press conference held at the DMA office, Tyagi emphasised that the association has extended its ...
Plea in SC for safety, security of doctors at government hospitals
In the wake of protests by doctors in West Bengal against assault on their colleagues, a plea was filed in the Supreme Court Friday seeking to ensure safety and security of doctors in government hospitals across the country. The petition sought directions to Union ministries of home affairs and health as also West Bengal to depute government appointed security personnel at all government hospitals across the country to ensuring safety and security of the doctors. Due to protests, the healthcare services in the country have been badly disrupted and many people are dying because of the absence of the doctors, it said. "The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has supported the agitation of the doctors and has directed its members of all its state branches to stage protests ad wear black badges on Friday. Many senior doctors have resigned from their government posts in order to express solidarity with the agitating doctors," it said. The plea, filed by advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, also ...
