A history of femicide of elite female athletes in Kenya. • Agnes Tirop-stabbed/clobbered to death 2021 •Edna Muthoni-Throat slit by machete 2021 • Damaris Muthee Mutua- Strangled 2022 • Rebecca Cheptegei- Torched Sep 2024. All by their male partners. None have been jailed.

Para champ #DeepthiJeevanji recently bought back half of the one-acre plot in Kalleda village in #Warangal, her home, that her daily-wager parents had sold eight years ago to support her Read more🔗toi.in/hsAfqY17 #ParisParalympics2024 #Paralympic2024

Read--and reread--this headline: "Bill Gates Advises [Nigeria] Against Prioritising Local Vaccine Production" Gates is telling Nigeria what its priorities should be? And these priorities are to maintain Nigeria's dependence on Gates/Gavi/Big Pharma? thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024…

Many tests required under Maharashtra’s MJPJAY health insurance scheme for poor families are irrational and lack evidence. Result? Overtesting and unnecessary prolonged hospital stays beyond clinical need. #HealthPolicy #MedicalEthics #MJPJAY

Patient safety anyone? This is Uttar Pradesh👇

The Hindu Laadli Link to our winning entries - Here is my piece on gaps in access to psychotherapy for women in rural India and how ASHA workers are diagnosing women with depression and schizophrenia, one village at a time thehindu.com/news/national/…

#BreakingNews #CBME2024 stands WITHDRAWN AND CANCELLED with immediate effect The National Medical Commission curriculum has only been withdrawn for now. We must wait to see what's coming next and cannot afford to be complacent, as the NMC has a history of making multiple U-turns. Thanks to media!

A couple carrying their children on shoulders walking 15 kilometers to hospital and walking back with the children's dead bodies on their shoulders in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli should be a wake up call about crippling public healthcare in the state! It is heartbreaking and

"80% of everyone I treated was under the age of 16... all of the injuries were explosive related & burns... I saw a lot of lower limb trauma, children losing legs, arms... a lot of facial injuries." British plastic surgeon Victoria Rose recounts the horrors she witnessed while

With the rise of new technologies and AI, should medical schools and students start paying greater attention to those skills and knowledge—such as ethics and communication skills—that are more “uniquely human?" Daniel Sokol bmj.com/content/386/bm…

The National Medical Commission National Medical Commission should enforce , MCI Ethics Regulations 2002 & hence the Right to appeal ,based on the Notification of August 2023 If not willing Ministry of Health should direct them to enforce it Story by Rema Nagarajan ,TOI today

Why have regulatory body for medical profession? To protect public/patients But National Medical Commission continues to act against patient interest despite gazette notification giving patients' right to appeal against state council decisions Ministry of Health does nothing shows Dr Babu K V RTIs, letters

#DCGI seeks explanation from pharma company claiming that their new #eye drop could help people reduce dependency on reading glasses for those suffering from #presbyopia, an age-related vision condition The New Indian Express TheMorningStandard Ministry of Health CDSCO_INDIA_INFO Dr Babu K V

National Task Force on safety in hospitals constitutes 3 sub groups, about 30 members Not a single nurse despite nurses unions writing to health ministry- a slap on the face for nurses No representation for patients, any other hospital support staff The Trained Nurses' Association of India (TNAI) Ministry of Health

New brilliant update in U-win portal. To immunize a child an OTP has to be entered. People coming without the phone number they registered with or migrant workers who have don't have the same number, their details can't be entered into the system.

Dear researchers, The u-win Portal's data on immunization will show a drastic drop in coverage if this continues and that data won't match with HMIS data. Public health research is being made increasingly difficult in this country by messing up data sources!

Spoke with the U-win portal incharge. Many people have complained already. Seems like they will disable this update.

Dr Babu K V National Medical Commission Ministry of Health Rema Nagarajan FAIMA Doctors Association When the whole NMC regulation is at abeyance then the original MCI should remain applicable.