Health Bulletin 01/ August/ 2024 - Video
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Overview
Here are the top health stories for the day:
AIIMS' institutional preference for PG seats questioned in Supreme Court plea
While considering a plea by an INICET aspirant alleging that AIIMS was erroneously giving 'institutional preference' to its doctors as de facto reservation, the Supreme Court on Monday (July 29) sought responses of the Union Government and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in this regard.
Allegedly, despite scoring 99.65% and securing 287th rank in the Institutes of National Importance Combined Entrance Test (INICET) exam, the petitioner was unable to get a seat in AIIMS, when even a candidate from AIIMS, who ranked 10,721 in the exam, secured admission.
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Health Ministry reports 4.71 crore women screened for cervical cancer in India
A total of 4.71 crore women have been screened for cervical cancer as per the National NCD Portal, the Union Minister of State for Health Shri Prataprao Jadhav informed the Lok Sabha recently.
As of 9th July 2024, 1,73,546 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs have been operationalized throughout India, MoS Jadhav informed.
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Health ministry reveals MBBS seats breakup in India
Among the 1,12,112 MBBS seats available in 731 colleges across the country, Karnataka has the maximum number of MBBS seats i.e. 12,345 MBBS seats, revealed the data shared by the Union Health Minister Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda before the Lok Sabha.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu has the maximum number of medical colleges i.e. 77 medical colleges followed by Karnataka (which has 73 medical colleges) Uttar Pradesh (which has 72 medical colleges) and Maharashtra (which has 70 medical colleges).
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Another MS orthopaedics medico at Sassoon Hospital suspended for alleged involvement in abandoning disabled patient
Another first-year postgraduate student of the Department of Orthopaedics at Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) has been suspended for alleged involvement in the abandonment of a handicapped patient by forceful discharge on July 22.
This comes after an internal committee probing the incident found the involvement of a second junior medical student in escorting the patient out of the hospital, who had lost both of his legs and was undergoing treatment at the hospital.
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