Health Bulletin 26/ August/ 2024 - Video
Overview
Here are the top health stories for the day:
Brain-dead 72-year-old woman donates organs and tissues, saves 5 lives
On the morning of 15th August, 72-year-old Ms Kavita Rajkumar Goel, was found unconscious in her house. Her family immediately rushed her to HCMCT Manipal Hospital, Dwarka.
Ms Kavita was resuscitated and placed on the ventilator. An urgent CT scan of head revealed massive brain hemorrhage. Despite the best efforts of the medical team, her condition deteriorated rapidly and she was declared brain.
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JJ Hospital Dean Dr. Pallavi Saple joins Supreme Court-formed National Task Force for Hospital security
Dr Pallavi Saple, Dean of the JJ Group of Hospitals, has been selected as the sole representative from Maharashtra in the National Task Force for Hospital Security, established by the Supreme Court on Monday.
Dr Saple, a 51-year-old paediatrician, made history in 2019 when she became the youngest dean of the state-run hospital since Independence. She oversees the JJ campus, which spans 48 acres.
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JJ Hospital Dean Dr Pallavi Saple joins SC-formed National Task Force for Hospital Security
Medical College fined Rs 10 lakh for 'misleading' the High Court
While considering a plea filed by White Medical College and Hospital, previously known as Chintpurni Medical College and Hospital, the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently slapped a fine of Rs 10 lakh on the institute for "misleading" the court.
Filing the plea, the college was contesting an order issued in January by the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC), through which the Commission directed the transfer of students from the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 batches to other medical colleges.
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NMC specifies recognized PG faculty-to-student ratios in medical colleges
Releasing the Minimum Standard Requirements for Postgraduate Courses (PGMSR) 2024, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has specified the ratio of recognized Post-graduate faculty to the number of students to be admitted for the PG broad speciality and super-speciality courses.
According to the guidelines issued by the Postgraduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB) of the NMC, for Government Colleges and Non-Government Colleges/ Medical Institutions with 15 years of standing (where PG medical courses have been running since10 years), the Professor/ Associate Prof as Unit Head/ Associate Professor to student ratio is 1:3 and in case of other non-government colleges, this ratio is 1:2.
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NMC specifies Recognised PG faculty-to-student ratio in Medical Colleges
Implement provisions to prevent sexual harassment of women at Workplace: NMC reiterates NHRC directions for medical colleges
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has once again directed the medical colleges/institutes across the country to strictly adhere to the National Human Rights Commission's (NHRC) directions of implementing the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act, 2013).
Complying with these provisions the medical colleges are required to constitute the Internal Complaint Committees (ICCs), Local Committees (LCs), Internal Committees (ICs) at an appropriate level and the same should be displayed on the website of the Organization.
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