Health Bulletin 31/January/2022

Here are Top Health stories of the day

India reports 2.09 lakh new Covid-19 cases

NMC nod to Atal Bihari Vajpayee Memorial Medical College for starting MD Community Medicine with 4 seats

Bringing good news to the PG medical aspirants in Chhattisgarh, the National Medical Commission has given its nod to Atal Bihari Vajpayee Memorial Medical College for starting of MD Community Medicine course in 4 seats for the academic year of 2021-2022.

Apart from this, the institute is also providing PG medical admission in MS Opthalmology (2 seats), MS Otorhinolaryngology (2 seats), MD Anaesthesiology (3 seats). So the institute has altogether 11 PG medical seats in four different specialties.

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NMC nod to Atal Bihari Vajpayee Memorial Medical College for starting MD Community Medicine with 4 seats

IM Injection causes Polyradiculopathy to patient, doctor told to pay Rs 4 lakh compensation

Upholding the order of the Tamil Nadu State Commission, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has recently directed a doctor to pay Rs 4 lakh as compensation to a patient, who had allegedly faced Sciatic nerve injection injury after the doctor had injected intra muscular injection.

The matter goes back to 2000, 21 years ago, when the patient, the complainant in the first case was taken by her father to the treating doctor with complaint of high grade fever. It was alleged that the treating doctor had administered one injection on her left buttock at a wrong site involving nerve.

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IM Injection Causes Polyradiculopathy to Patient, Doctor told to pay Rs 4 lakh Compensation

Govt amends drug rules to include Liquid Antiseptic under Schedule K

In order to meet the huge demand for liquid antiseptics during the COVID 19 pandemic, through a recent Gazette Notification, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has exempted the retail sale of liquid antiseptics from the requirement of sale license by amending Schedule K of the Drugs Rules, 1945.

As per the notification, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare added liquid antiseptics for household use in schedule K after making an amendment to the Drugs Rules, 1945.

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Govt amends Drug Rules to include liquid antiseptic under Schedule K

Research, Innovation necessity for sustained growth of pharma sector: Mandaviya

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Shri Mansukh Mandaviya has recently launched NIPER Research Portal along with Shri Bhagwanth Khuba, Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers in presence of Dr V. K Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog.

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) Research Portal has been created with the aim to disseminate the information about all the NIPERs and their research activities, patents filed and Publication information at one place so that a industry and other stakeholders know about them.

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Research, Innovation necessity for sustained growth of pharma sector: Mandaviya