Private firms to open medical colleges
Private sector healthcare companies have been allowed by the Medical Council of India to start medical colleges to address the shortage in the number of seats.
INDIA
Religare Laboratories launches Sports Gene Test to determine sporting prowess in children
Super Religare Laboratories has launched India
NRI Doctor from Hyderabad elected President of the largest county medical society in USA
Dr. Gurunath Reddy, graduate of Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad India is elected as President of the Harris County Medical Society, the largest county medical society in the United States of America, representing eleven thousand doctors.
Indian Pharmaceuticals in demand in China
Indian pharmaceutical companies welcome in China for meeting their growing domestic demands.
Rural healthcare-the focus of Union Budget 2010
The focus of the Union Budget 2010-11 is on rural healthcare with the allocations rising to a whopping INR 22,300 crores from INR 19,534 crores during the previous fiscal year. This escalation is in keeping with the evolving needs of the growing healthcare industry of the country.
“IT is the only facilitator for health services in the government sector” : Dr. R C Patnaik, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, India
The health department is a constituent unit of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), providing holistic healthcare facilities to the population residing in the geographical territory under MCD.
“Today, corporate hospitals also recognise the utility of research” : Dr. Upendra Kaul, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre
Fortis Healthcare announced its plan to focus on its academics and research programme with the objective of fostering and facilitating academics and clinical research enterprise across Fortis network of hospitals.
External Cardiac Defibrillators : Vijay Simha, BPL Health Management Solutions Group
One of the leading players in medical technology, BPL Healthcare has a significantly long presence in the cardiovascular devices segment as the first product launched by the company in 1969 was a single channel electrocardiograph.
40 Issues Young!
[This article was published in the March 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
With the successful completion of 40th issue, eHEALTH magazine has reached one more milestone in its journey of propagating knowledge in the domain of healthcare IT and medical technologies.
EVENTS DIARY
[This article was published in the March 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Event Diary- March 2010
30,000 bed capacity in Hrudalaya hospital in 5 years
Narayana Hrudayalaya, the Bangalore-based heart care hospital, will increase its bed capacity to 30,000 in five years across all its hospitals across India.
Fortis Healthcare to focus on Research and Academics
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is to be the nodal centre for co-ordination of all clinical researches in Cardiology to be conducted across Fortis hospitals.
