The Bachelor of Science (Community Health) course has been dealt a severe blow with a parliamentary standing committee recommending the government not to go ahead with it. The course which has surfaced under different names from …
China has initiated a 10-year educational programme which will cultivate more high-calibre doctors and train more general medical practitioners to serve the countryside. Emphasised at improving medical students' capacity in …
The Delhi High Court directed the Medical Council of India (MCI) to finalise the curriculum of the three-and-half years Bachelor of Rural Health Care course for non-MBBS physicians within six weeks. This will course will allow …
The IMA’s call for strike to protest the National Council of Human Resource and Health Bill 2011 and the Clinical Establishment Act met with a lukewarm response in Pune with most hospitals in the city running as usual.
The new …
Monday will see about 25000 doctors from Mumbai joining the one-day nationwide bandh to protest against the Clinical Estabilishments Bill, which lays unrealistic minimal standards on infrastructure and staff in hospitals, nursing …
The members of the IMA (Indian Medical Association) are holding a nationwide strike today to protest the NCHRH bill and various other bureaucratic decisions that they feel is harming doctors.
Recently, the decision to …
Medical services across the country are likely to remain paralysed today. All doctor affiliated to the IMA have threatened to go on a daylong strike to protest the proposed amendments to acts related to clinical establishment and …
The Supreme Court could not take up a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to declare that the proposed doctors' strike June 25 was illegal as Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai recused herself from hearing the matter. A vacation …
