Category: Discussions
A company’s policy on HIV/AIDS and the workplace
The necessity of a workplace HIV/AIDS policy for Tata Tea Ltd. was significantly felt because Tata Tea, being an agro-based industry, is dependent on its huge manpower resources to sustain its operations. Perceiving the future impact of HIV/AIDS on this valuable and indispensable human resource, ...
Gujarat carnage and the health services: a public…
It is estimated that over 2,000 adults and children have been killed in the Gujarat carnage since February 27, 2002. Over one lakh have been forced into relief camps, severely testing the medical community and health services. The state government failed in its duty to protect its people; numerou...
Hospitals, doctors and profession associations
The Medico Friend Circle team interviewed camp inmates who had accessed hospital services in Amdavad, staff and patients in hospitals, and doctors working in various hospitals in Amdavad. The city's public hospitals are run by the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (L G Hospital, V S Hospital, and Sha...
Excerpts from interviews with doctors
Dr B is a private practitioner and honorary consultant in a municipal hospital in Amdavad. Dr B is Muslim. His clinic is in a predominantly Hindu area.
Response of mental health professionals in Gujarat
We visited Anand-Kheda(between Baroda and Ahmedabad). Sixty people died in the riots here, and thousands were rendered homeless in approximately 125 villages. Victims have received scant support from the government and voluntary organisations.
A hospital’s politics affect its secular image
Vadilal Sarabhai (VS) Hospital is the largest Corporation-run hospital in Ahmedabad but also caters to poor patients from all over Gujarat. Set up some 70 years ago by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the hospital's constitution originally provided for an independent, eight-member board, balanced betwee...
General practice: some thoughts
Family practice is perhaps the oldest form of modern medical practice. It also involves the largest number of medical professionals. In India, where around 70 per cent of health care is now delivered by the private sector, family physicians form the largest group of health care providers coming i...
Changing trends in general practice in Mumbai –…
Hippocrates, had he been living now - in India, in Mumbai — would have been too confused to write his famous oath. Perhaps, he would prefer to have nothing to do with it.
Unholy nexuses in general medical practice
It is a matter of concern that general medical practice as it should be is slowly disappearing in our country, especially in the urban areas. There are many reasons for this. Specialisation has a glamour and prestige attached to it, as a result of which specialists also make more money than do ge...
D is for doctors…
According to the Oxford New English Dictionary a doctor is a person who is qualified to heal an ill person. Today medical professionals have come a long way. Once seen as witch doctors-cum-magicians, now they stroll the corridors of high-tech hospitals with regal airs. In a dehumanising technical...
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