NEW DELHI:India ‘s doctor-population ratio is 1:834 assuming 80 per cent availability of registered allopathic doctors and 5.65 lakh AYUSH doctors, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. There are 36.14 lakh nursing personnel in the country and the nurse-population ratio is 1:476, she said. According to the […]
SINGAPORE:Doctors in Singapore are calling on people to vaccinate and to put on a face mask to reduce the usual year-end increase in acute respiratory infections, including COVID-19, influenza and the common cold. Both Healthway Medical, the largest general practice chain with more than 120 clinics, and Parkway Shenton with 55 GP clinics, say they […]
KOCHI:Dr. Alain Cribier, the esteemed pioneer of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVI) and Medical Director of Rouen Medical Training Center visited Aster Medcity. Dr. Cribier, Head of the Department of Cardiology at Rouen University, is renowned for performing the world’s inaugural Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) on April 16, 2002. During his visit to Aster […]
KOCHI:Following ten days of intensive treatment, the female students who suffered severe injuries in the CUSAT Stampede have successfully left Aster Medcity. Sheba, hailing from Malappuram, and Geetanjali Vinod, a native of Alappuzha, were officially discharged on Tuesday after receiving medical care at Aster Medcity. Their return home was marked by the presence of Ernakulam […]
NEW DELHI:Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya participated in the launch of a nationwide awareness campaign on Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) technique in Delhi on Wednesday. The Health Minister was seen getting trained in CPR technique along with Minister of States SP Singh Baghel and Bharti Praveen Pawar. “Leading with a hands-on approach to SAVE LIVES! Marking […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The history of Ayurveda during COVID-19 would be incomplete without correctly identifying and scripting the roles and contributions of independent Ayurveda researchers and practitioners, who tirelessly and fearlessly provided services to the millions defying various restrictions, said experts at a global conclave here. They were speaking at a session on ‘Experience & Research during Pandemic’ […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Even as the medicinal plant sector is poised to become a multi-billion-dollar global industry India is yet to fully utilise the opportunity, said Dr Thomas Jacob, former director of research at the Spices Board in a session at the Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF 2023) here today. Speaking on the value-addition of medicinal plants, Dr Jacob […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Scaling up efforts to position Ayurveda as a sustainable and inclusive wellness system for the entire world and strengthening international networking of stakeholders by forming a Global Alliance of Ayurveda, the 5th Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF 2023) drew to close here today. The five-day event saw the largest gathering of Ayurvedic practitioners, scholars, students, policy […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:India ranks among the countries with the highest mortality rates due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and statistics show that one child dies every nine minutes due to illnesses caused by bugs that resist antibiotics. This shocking situation was revealed at a plenary session at the Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF) here, where experts discussed the role […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:An imaginatively-conceived corridor at the ongoing Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF-2023) provides nuggets of information about the constantly evolving 3,500-year-old history of India’s ancient medical system, wooing visitors to the five-day event concluding on Tuesday. The exhibition profiles the milestones that contributed to the eminence of Ayurveda till as recently as 2022, tracing its major developments […]