Touted as the bill to replace the ‘corrupt Medical Council of India’, it has stirred the medico fraternity due to several controversial sections and doctors feel that it is against them.
Author: Bhavani Prabhakar
“Tamilnadu has been progressing well in bringing down incidences of the viral infection as it has good public health indicators compared to other States. Access to health care is much better”
Condemning the National Medical Commission Bill, 2019, students of several medical colleges in Chennai today boycotted classes and clinical posting and have begun an ‘indefinite strike’.
If Google is one source, Facebook and YouTube are the other two key providers of misinformation. With the availability of mobile phones and access to Internet, it has become easy for people, who want to propagate the information they get from doctors, to put it out there.
Only a handful of IT companies come up with initiatives for the welfare of mothers who wish to continue working. The scenario is the same in government offices, too.
“When one wants to verify the authenticity, they can just run a check with the registration number on the public registry provided on the official website. If the results do not show, the answer is simple,” says UCSD Certified Lactation Educator Counselor (CLEC) Swati Jagdish.
Over the past three decades since the day of its launch, The Alchemist has been translated in 80 languages, has won 115 internationally-acclaimed awards, has stayed on chart of The New York Times Bestseller List and has sold over 150 million copies.
In a bid to create a source of income for the inmates at Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Kilpauk, Lennox International, a US-based company, donated a sanitary pad making machine for the female enclosure Wednesday.
Inaugurated with much fanfare around four years ago, public breastfeeding rooms in 39 bus termini across Chennai are now dysfunctional. Despite being located in prominent spaces, the facilities are not functional.