Health Bulletin 10/ January/ 2025 - Video

In an unfortunate incident, a female doctor from Undri tragically lost her life after a speeding truck hit her two-wheeler vehicle from behind and ran over her head on the Katraj Handewadi Road.

The 34-year-old deceased has been identified as Dr Pranali Tanmay Date who owned a clinic in Undri. Tragically, she died instantly after being struck from behind by a truck. Her body was found underneath the truck, with her head crushed by its wheels in the accident.

Amid the ongoing legal proceedings before the Bombay High Court over the eligibility of dentists to perform aesthetic procedures, the Karnataka State Dental Council (KSDC) has specified that dentists practising facial aesthetic treatment and hair transplant procedures would be considered "Unethical Practice" and it would render a dentist unfit for the Dental Register.

However, issuing a notice in this regard on 02.01.2025, the President of the state dental council has further clarified that Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons are exceptions to this rule. This means that dentists other than Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons are not allowed to practice facial aesthetic treatment and hair transplant procedures.

Protesting against the State Government's decision to hand over the Government Medical College Haridwar to private management i.e. Sharda Educational Society, Noida, the MBBS students of the institute went on an indefinite strike recently.

The State has reportedly decided to handover the college to Sharda Educational Society to run it under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. Meanwhile, the students pointed out that two members of the teaching faculty have already resigned from their posts and a number of teachers, who were transferred to the college from other government medical colleges are now being transferred back, TOI has reported.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a stay on the Telangana High Court order of transferring a postgraduate medical seat from one college to another through provisional admission and allowed the petitioner doctor (before the High Court) to appear for the final examination.

Even though the doctor had initially been admitted to the M.D. DVL course at MNR Medical College, later she filed a plea seeking transfer of the seat to Medicity College.