Private hospitals are in the eye of a storm with Right To Health activists alleging that private hospitals are grossly overcharging patients from Central Government Health Scheme.
The Nims stent scam that has come to light after the arrest of a top cardiologist calls for some serious introspection by the medical fraternity and increased vigilance by regulators. When those who have sworn a solemn oath to practice their profession with conscience fall prey to the lure of money, it is the stature [...]
The State’s initiative to introduce generic medicines on an experimental basis in government hospitals has failed to gather steam, with hospitals like NIMS not having an outlet for the same. The State government’s initiative in revolutionising health care services has not received all the attention it deserves. Because, when generic medicines were introudced for sale [...]
The Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Hyderabad is a hospital of considerable repute. Founded in 1961 as an Orthopaedic Hospital by the Nizam’s Charitable Trust, the hospital was handed over to the AP government for 99 years on a one-rupee-a-year lease in 1976.
HYDERABAD: Senior IAS officer and Principal Secretary (Home) B P Acharya, who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) naming him as the prime accused in the Emaar Properties case, was shifted to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) on complaint of chest pain. The CBI, which arrested him on Monday afternoon, sought [...]
Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), which is suffering from paucity of funds and host of several problems, is clueless on how to address them. The institution and its administrators are caught in a bind between government control and autonomy. With gaping holes in administration and operations, from lack of equipment to chronic red tapism, [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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