Health Bulletin 13/September/2022

In a shocking incident, doctors at the government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district treated patients under mobile flashlights for more than an hour as hospital suffered a prolonged power cut.

Video clips showing a doctor examining a woman patient on a stretcher and other people crowding around have gone viral on social media.

"There was a disturbance for some time as we were getting the batteries for the generator," said Dr. R.D. Ram, orthopedic surgeon, and chief in-charge at the district hospital.

India has issued a detailed advisory related to studying MBBS course at Chinese medical schools as thousands of enrolled students continue to remain stuck at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In its advisory, the government has warned about the challenges they may face after studying in China, including low pass percentage, the need to learn the official spoken language there and the stringent rules for practising as a doctor in India.

Considering medical negligence allegations against Visakhapatnam-based Care hospital and its doctors, the Supreme Court recently stated that "every death in an institutionalized environment of a hospital does not necessarily amount to medical negligence on a hypothetical assumption of lack of due medical care."

Although the plea claimed that the doctors and the hospital were negligent while providing treatment to the patient and there was also delay in treatment, the Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice D. Y. Chandrachud, Justice A. S. Bopanna and Justice J. B. Pardiwala dismissed the plea after referring to the NCDRC judgment.