[This article was published in the August 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Union Health Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad has approved the Bachelor for Rural Medicine Course (BRMC), giving all states the choice to adopt it. Minor changes are being made in the proposed course and the proposal has been sent to the Medical Council of India (MCI).
It is very crucial to bridge the gap in the context of medical education, where many of the emerging and demanding courses are not present in the conventional courses currently.
[This article was published in the August 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
IGNOU memorises the annual death anniversary of its Founder Vice-Chancellor, the legendary late Prof G Ram Reddy, by the annual memorial lectures instituted in 1996 following the sudden death of Prof Reddy on July 2, 1995, reports Sangita Ghosh De of eHEALTH.
[This article was published in the June 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The public health sector in India, dogged with issues such as low healthcare spend, manpower shortage, corruption and crumbling infrastructure
Secretary, Department of Health Research was requested to chair a Committee on Health Care, Education, Research and Delivery to identify the applications that could use National Knowledge Network.
Stephen Conroy, Federal Communications Minister, offered an amount of $60 million in funding for new remote and rural health, emergency response and education projects.
Bumrungrad International, Bangkok, one of the best and finest hospital in Asia has been recognised for its world class organisational excellence by being awarded the Thailand Quality Class (TQC) award for 2008.
The National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli (NITT) has expressed a keen interest in starting a Telemedicine Centre.
The regional government of Nagapattinam district administration has decided to make use of telemedicine services to provide psychological treatment to the tsunami-hit children.
Vision Objects has integrated its MyScript handwriting recognition into Livescribe’s Pulse smartpen and desktop application.
The 7th Telehealth Technology Course is to be held from 31st March – 12th April 2008. This course is being jointly conducted by Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation and Anna University.
Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, delivering a public on lecture
The government will allocate INR 1,360 billion (USD 34.50 billion) for healthcare in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12), up from INR 450 billion in the previous plan, said Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. He also said that the government will introduce a ‘health smart card’ under the National School Health Programme for every school-going child.
