Health Bulletin 1/April/2023

 Here are the top health stories for the day:

3,000 Covid cases for second straight day

3,095 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the last 24 hours Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday. Daily positivity rate stands at 2.61 percent and Weekly Positivity Rate is 1.91 percent.

Rajasthan Doctors Strike- Rajasthan Medical Council intervenes, demands details of striking doctors

The strike of Rajasthan doctors protesting against the Right to Health Bill has now seen the intervention of the State Medical Council as well as the State Human Rights Commission with the Rajasthan Medical Council now writing to the various universities and medical colleges to provide details of the striking doctors.

In this regard, Dr. Manish Sharma, the registrar of the Rajasthan Medical Council (RMC) recently wrote to the Principal and administrators of attached hospitals including Jaipur-based Sawai Man Singh Medical College and RUHS College of Medical Science, Ajmer-based JLN Medical College, Bikaner based Sardar Patel Medical College, RNT Medical College Udaipur, Jodhpur based Dr. Sampurnanand Medical College, Jodhpur, GMC Kota, Jhalawar Medical College and all the government medical colleges under Raj MES.

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Rajasthan Doctors Strike- Rajasthan Medical Council Intervenes, Demands Details Of Striking Doctors

Pay Rs 70 crore or vacate premises: Medical college gets govt ultimatum

Issuing a warning to the management of Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the State Government has asked it to deposit the pending concessionaire fee or vacate the college.

The notice to the college management in this regard has been served by the Additional Chief Secretary of Medical Education and Research.

For the last nine months the matter has been pending and the college management already owes around Rs 70 crore to the government, reports The Tribune.

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Pay Rs 70 Crore Or Vacate Premises: Medical College Gets Govt Ultimatum

Doctors at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for children remove 100 gm hairball from 10-year-old girl's stomach

Doctors team of Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital For Children successfully removed a 100 gm hairball from the stomach of a 10-year-old girl who used to pull her hair and eat it.

The girl was known to have trichophagiais, compulsive eating of hair linked to trichotillomania (hair pulling) leading to intense stomach pain. The patient is doing well after the 2-hour surgery.

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Doctors At Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital For Children Remove 100 Gm Hairball From 10-Year-Old Girl's Stomach

Kolkata man is world's first human to be infected by killer plant fungus

A 61-year-old man from Kolkata became the first victim of a potentially deadly fungal infection caused by plants. The patient who is a plant mycologist, has been working closely with plants, mushrooms, and fungi for a long time.

He visited the hospital located in Kolkata with complaints of hoarseness of voice, cough, fatigue, recurrent pharyngitis, sore throat, difficulty in swallowing, and anorexia for three months, informed doctors in the journal Medical Mycology Case Reports.

Reference:

Soma Dutta, Ujjwayini Ray,Paratracheal abscess by plant fungus Chondrostereum purpureum- first case report of human infection,Medical Mycology Case Reports,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2023.03.001.