CHENNAI: Life insurance for people with AIDS and HIV may soon become a reality. The insurance regulator has issued draft guidelines seeking views and comments from insurers on issuing life cover policies to persons with HIV/AIDS.
The draft circular by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority ( IRDA) on policies for people with HIV/AIDS, issued this month, may come into effect from April 2014. Insurers are expected to put in place a board-approved underwriting manual, claims manual, proposal form and other necessary systems before this date....
NEW DELHI: The crisis of specialist doctors in India is a result of
the government's failure to increase postgraduate seats in medical
colleges, says Dr Devi Shetty, founder and chairman of Narayana
Hrudayalaya in Bangalore.
The Association of Health Providers of
India, which is headed by Dr Shetty, has started 'Save the Doctor'
campaign in collaboration with the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to
demand equalization of undergraduate and postgraduate seats. As of now,
there are 46,300 UG seats and 22,000 PG seats - out of which only 10,000
are in non-clinical subjects like anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology and forensic medicine.....
NEW DELHI: For patients requiring blood thinner drugs there is good
news. The risk of bleeding, a major cause of death after a heart surgery
or thrombosis in the veins, can now be assessed using a new method
developed by Indian doctors.
The Genetic Bleeding Risk (GBR)
score has been developed at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on the basis of
genetic and non-genetic factors associated with bleeding in patients on
long-term blood clotting therapy, said Risha Nahar, scientist at the
hospital's Centre of Medical Genetics....
Code of conduct hinders funds for critically-ill
NEW DELHI: Rajendra Kumar (41) suffers from oral cancer and is in urgent
need of surgery to survive. But when Kumar, a tailor, approached the
Delhi health department recently for financial assistance he was told to
come after elections or after the election commission
clarifies on release of funds under Delhi Aarogya Scheme which is to be
approved by the state health minister, Dr A K Walia, who is also a
candidate for the upcoming elections.....
My institute Director:
'I will give doctors congenial environment, freedom in research'
It's been over a week since Dr M C Misra took over as director of
AIIMS but the welcome notes and bouquets have not stopped coming. He
offers sweets to all, including us, as we arrive for an interview
Dr Misra, better known as chief of the institute's trauma centre which
he headed till recently , speaks to Durgesh Nandan Jha about his journey
from Mainpuri district in UP, where he was born, and Kanpur University,
from where he did his MBBS, to becoming the head of India's premier
medical institute and how he plans to make the institute more
patient-friendly , boost research and stop exodus of doctors......
Centre to SC: Ban all kinds of gutka
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday made a strong plea before the Supreme Court
for passing an appropriate order to ban all kinds of gutka in the
country saying they are addictive and harmful even if they don't contain
tobacco.
Appearing before a bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi, additional solicitor general Indira Jaising made a forceful submission against manufacturing and selling of gutka products.
