Odisha struggling with shortage of doctors
The national average of doctor-population ratio stands at 1: 811 while the World Health Organization's prescribed norm specifies the posting of one doctor for 1,000 people.
The national average of doctor-population ratio stands at 1: 811 while the World Health Organization's prescribed norm specifies the posting of one doctor for 1,000 people.
Five doctors were killed in a tragic road accident here on Lucknow - Agra expressway early Wednesday.
Three doctors of the Bhagwan Das Khetan Government Hospital of Jhunjhunu city of Rajasthan were suspended for wrongly declaring a patient dead, and subsequently performing postmortem the same day.
The largest South Korean doctors' advocacy group voted on Sunday to impeach its chief, holding him responsible for poor responses to a prolonged walkout by junior doctors and various other controversies.
It pertains to six-point suggestions to the government on how to improve state-run healthcare services.
The protest by doctors in Delhi over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata entered its fifth day on Friday, with all elective services remaining suspended.
More than 250 junior doctors of the state run Gandhi Medical College (GMC) in Bhopal announced a strike, leading to disruption of medical services in the affiliated Hamidia Hospital.
Though doctors are treated gods but many a time these doctors suffer psychological breakdown, which leads to suicidal attempts.
Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ord - er ed a CBI investi - gation into the rape and murder of a woman post-graduate trainee (PGT) doctor at the RG Kar Medical college and Hospital last Friday and asked police to hand over the case diary and other material related to the case to the Central agency forthwith.
The juinior doctors of the RG Kar Medical College in the city have been summoned today at the Kolkata police headquarters in Lalbazar.
