Health Bulletin 29/September/2025 - Video
Overview
Here are the top health stories of the day:
Telangana Medical Council Cracks Down on Quacks Using Prescription Screening
To eliminate quackery in the state, the Telangana Medical Council has come up with a quick and effective way to identify fake doctors by simply asking them to write a prescription.
Instead of spending weeks checking forged certificates, TGMC’s anti-quackery team now simply sends decoys to suspected practitioners, asking for a prescription on the spot. After that, they check for possible errors in the prescription.
In this way, the council has exposed hundreds of quacks who fail to write even a basic prescription correctly. In most cases, the prescriptions were vague, incomplete, or illegible.
For more details, check out the full story on the link mentioned below:
Telangana Medical Council uses prescription test to identify Quacks
Gangrene After IV Negligence: Chandigarh Hospital ordered to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (DCDRC) has directed a Chandigarh-based hospital and its three doctors to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to a patient, who developed gangrene in her hand and had to undergo amputation while undergoing treatment for a gastrointestinal problem.
The District Consumer decided on the amount of compensation after noting that the patient will have to get a bionic hand and the treatment cost for the same will be around Rs 28,26,887.
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Mizoram battles Scrub Typhus outbreak, health experts warn
A public health entomologist from the Health & Family Welfare Department's Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) has warned about the growing spread of scrub typhus across Mizoram, which is now reaching endemic proportions.
Since 2012, government healthcare facilities alone have recorded 913 confirmed cases of scrub typhus, with 34 deaths.
According to the UNI report, the entomologist has further warned that the actual number of cases could be nearly double if private healthcare facility data were included.
The first cases of scrub typhus were identified in Mizoram during the gregarious flowering of the 'Mautak' (Melocanna baccifera) bamboo species between 2006 and 2008, which led to a dramatic increase in the rodent population.
For more details, check out the full story on the link mentioned below:
Mizoram faces Scrub Typhus surge, warn health experts
NMC discontinues QR code attendance devices in medical colleges, mandates Face-based Aadhaar app
Through a recent notice, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has announced its decision to discontinue facial QR code-based attendance devices from October 1, 2025.
As an alternative, the Apex Medical Commission has asked the medical colleges to ensure full implementation of the FACE-based mobile Aadhaar Authentication App.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that back in April 2025, NMC announced that all the medical colleges and institutions would transition to a face-based Aadhaar authentication system via the NMC AEBAS platform from May 1, 2025.
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NMC discontinues QR code attendance devices, mandates Face-based Aadhaar app in medical colleges
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