Health Bulletin 26/December/2022

Here are the top health stories for the day:

FMGs with course completion certificate allowed to appear for screening test: MoS Health

Ukraine returned medical students who came back home due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, are allowed to appear in the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination if they have obtained the course completion certificate by their respective parent institute, the Minister of State for Health Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar informed the Parliament recently.

Further, the MoS Health told the Rajya Sabha that after clearing the FMGE, these medicos will have to undergo Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) for a period of two years to make up for the clinical training that they could not complete in their parent institutes.

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FMGs With Course Completion Certificate Allowed To Appear For Screening Test: MoS Health

Raid: Spurious medical drugs worth Rs 23.22 lakh seized in Odisha

Spurious medical drugs worth Rs 23.22 lakh were seized in Odisha's Cuttack on Friday, a statement said.

Raids were conducted by enforcement teams of the Health Department in Nayasadak in Purighat police station area and the seizure was made, it said.

"These drugs were found to have been procured from Uttar Pradesh. Total drugs worth Rs. 23,22,948 were seized," it added.

Some spurious drugs were also seized from a medical store in Bargarh, it said.

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Raid: Spurious Medical Drugs Worth Rs 23.22 Lakh Seized In Odisha

Cystic fibrosis drug could help treat pneumonia

Pneumonia is the most common cause of fluid buildup in the lungs. This condition, known as pulmonary edema, results in parts of the airspaces filling with fluid instead of air, which prevents them from doing their job of exchanging gases. Patients struggle to breath and their body can't get enough oxygen. The diagnosis is acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS. "Despite cutting-edge medical procedures, roughly 40 percent of patients with ARDS die in intensive care. The problem is that antibiotics, antivirals, and immune modulating therapies rarely work well enough," says study leader Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kuebler, Director of the Institute of Physiology at Charité. "That's why we took a very different approach in our study. Instead of focusing on the pathogen, we focused on strengthening the barrier function of the blood vessels in the lungs." This makes sense, as they are the source of the fluid in pulmonary edema. The lung vessels become permeable, allowing fluid from the blood to flow into the surrounding tissue – and thereby flood the airspaces. 

Reference:

Erfinanda, L. el at,Loss of endothelial CFTR drives barrier failure and edema formation in lung infection and can be targeted by CFTR potentiation,Science Translational Medicine, 10.1126/scitranslmed.abg8577. 

Rs 10 lakh penalty if doctor's original certificates not returned within 8 weeks: Madras HC

The Madras High Court bench recently slammed the University of Madras (UoM) for withholding the original academic certificates of a retired Biochemistry professor.

Giving an eight-week ultimatum to the University for retrieving the certificates, the High Court bench has also clarified that if the Registrar and the HoD of the Biochemistry department fail to give them back then they would be liable to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to the professor.

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Rs 10 Lakh Penalty If Doctor's Original Certificates Not Returned Within 8 Weeks: Madras HC