Can’t lower our guard when Covid-19 is evolving: Poonam Khetrapal Singh

September 19, 2020

With Covid-19 cases rising rapidly, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of the WHO South-East Asia Region, has clearly said that there is a possibility to get a vaccine by the end of the year 2020. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Guardian, Dr Singh spoke at length about...

COVID-19 SPREAD WIDELY IN MAY: ICMR SERO SURVEY

September 12, 2020

The ICMR sero survey results revealed that 64 lakh Indians have been already infected by Covid-19 inMay, which marked the initial stage. However, these cases had been undiagnosed and the patients developed antibodies against the novel coronavirus. The findings were revealed a day after India reported the highest rise in...

KARNATAKA MINISTER ASKS FOR CLINICAL REPORT ON RE-INFECTION CASES

September 12, 2020

Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr K. Sudhakar has instructed officials to conduct a clinical studyon re-infection cases reported in the state. Recently, a 27-year-old woman tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time at a private hospital in the state, after which, in a meeting with Task Force officials,Sudhakar asked...

IMA WRITES LETTER TO UNION HOME MINISTER AMIT SHAH

September 12, 2020

After receiving several complaints of violence against doctors, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah about strengthening the anti-violence act until the central law is enacted. The statement given by IMA read, “The larger issue of safety of our hospitals, doctors, nurses and...

DGCI’S SHOW CAUSE NOTICE TO SII FOR HOLDING COVISHIELD TRIALS

September 12, 2020

The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has issued a show cause notice to the Serum Institute of India (SII). The SII is manufacturing Oxford University’s vaccine ‘Covishield’, in collaboration with the UK’s AstraZeneca. Regarding the show cause notice issued by the DCGI, SII said, “We are going by DCGI’s...

Private hospitals can’t deny treatment to patients during pandemic: Court

September 12, 2020

The Nagpur division bench comprising Justices Ravi Deshpande and Pushpa Ganediwada said that the main issue which required the court’s attention is making ventilators and beds available to patients so as to reduce the death rate. “We want all doctors and paramedical staff to rise to the occasion of the...

INDIA TO HIT 80% RECOVERY RATE BY SEPTEMBER END: DR GIRIDHAR GYANI

September 12, 2020

India has crossed more than 95,000 cases in a single day which is a serious concern. However, the country’s recovery rate is higher than other countries. Dr Giridhar J. Gyani, director general, Association of Healthcare Providers (India), explains the latest survey done by AHPI which has shown that India will...

Bombay High Court rejects doctor’s reinstatement

September 5, 2020

The Bombay High Court has rejected the reinstatement of a doctor at Shirdi’s Sai Baba Hospital. The doctor was dismissed from his duty after he refused to admit a patient who later lost his life. According to reports, the doctor was on duty in June 2009 when a boy bitten...

Treat doctors who lost lives on ‘frontline’ as martyrs: IMA

September 5, 2020

The Indian Medical Association (IMA), in a letter written to PM Narendra Modi, has asked the government to treat all doctors who lost their lives on the frontline of theCovid-19 pandemic as martyrs of the armed forces. IMA has also requested to give government jobs and compensation to the families...

The Lancet publishes trial results of Russia’s Covid vaccine

September 5, 2020

The first peer-reviewed results of phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials of SPUTNIK-V(Russia’s first Covid vaccine) have been published in the medical journal called The Lancet. Russia faced criticism and scepticism last month on its announcement of the world’s first approved coronavirus vaccine for public use before phase 3...