CDSCO may waive cough syrups from testing for export to specific countries

New Delhi: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is considering on a proposal to waive cough syrups from testing for export to specific countries. This move comes in response to a representation from stakeholders who have advocated for such exemption, official sources said on Tuesday.

In May last year, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry had made it compulsory for cough syrup manufacturers to get samples of their products tested at specified government laboratories from June 1 before getting permission for outbound shipments.

The direction had come after quality concerns were raised globally over cough syrups exported by Indian firms.
Now, the CDSCO, the apex drugs regulatory authority, is examining a proposal to waive the requirement for testing cough syrups being exported to the US, the UK, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Korea and Switzerland at the prescribed laboratory, the sources said.
Further, if a cough syrup is manufactured in a plant or section approved by the regulatory agencies of these countries for any product, it may also be allowed to be exported to any country without testing at the prescribed laboratory, they said.
While the CDSCO is considering waiving the testing requirement, the sources said that according to the latest data, around 353 of 7,087 batches of cough syrups that were tested were found “not of standard quality” on various parameters, including contamination of toxic diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol.

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Health Ministry dismisses study alleging 11.9 lakh excess COVID deaths

The Union Health Ministry on Saturday dismissed the findings published in the academic journal Science Advances, which claimed that India has reported 11.9 lakh excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The Ministry claims that the study was based on untenable and unacceptable estimates.
Some media reports have highlighted the findings from a paper published on life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020.

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Nasha Mukti Indradhanush Abhiyan India: Doctor-led Campaign targets addiction-free India

In an effort to achieve an addiction-free Nation, the ”Nasha Mukti Indradhanush Abhiyan India” campaign has garnered support from over 1,000 doctors, public health experts, and undergraduate and postgraduate medical students.
Launched by the Asian Coalition for Health Empowerment (ACHE) in collaboration with Doctors Against Addiction (DaAD), this signature campaign garners support from medical professionals and the public, paving the way for a healthier, addiction-free India.
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Surat doctor held for allegedly defrauding 12 doctors of Rs 5.25 crore in Ambulance scam

In a fraud case, a doctor from the Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research (SMIMER) has been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Surat police for allegedly defrauding 12 doctors of Rs 5.25 crore in an ambulance scam.
According to the police, the accused doctor, a tutor at the medical college collected the money from his 12 doctor friends by luring them with a 50 per cent profit in the ambulance business but failed to deliver any promised profits.
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INI CET July 2024: AIIMS Begins Open Round Counselling, 636 Seats Available for candidates

New Delhi- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)has started the open round of online seat allotment for admission to postgraduate (PG) courses for the July 2024 session. On this, AIIMS has released an information brochure detailing the entire process of allotment. Additionally, the vacant seat positions for the said allotment have also been released.

The registration and exercise of options for the open round of online seat allocation for the Institutes of National Importance Joint Entrance Test (INI-CET) for the July 2024 session for admission to PG courses started from today i.e. 24th July 2024 and will continue till 30th July 2024. Therefore, candidates need to register online for the Open Round of Seat Allocation by 05:00 pm on Tuesday, the 30th July 2024 on the AIIMS official website.

All candidates who have registered for the Open Round of Seat Allocation are required to complete all necessary formalities and exercising choices till 30 August 2024 (05:00 pm). After the final submission/closing date and time, no changes in the choice of order of preference will be allowed. The candidates can make any number of choices, edit the choices and reorder the choices.

These PG courses are offered for the July 2024 session at AIIMS, New Delhi, as well as other AIIMS, JIPMER Puducherry, NIMHANS Bengaluru, PGIMER Chandigarh, and SCTIMST Thiruvananthapuram, for MD, MS, M.Ch. (6 years), DM (6 years), and MDS admissions. INI-CET for the July 2024 session was conducted on Sunday, May 19, 2024, and its examination centres will be held in all cities across India.

Also Read: INI CET July 2024: PGIMER To Hold 2nd Counselling For Sponsored Candidates On July 24th, Details

SCHEDULE FOR OPEN ROUND OF ONLINE SEAT ALLOCATION

S.NO

EVENTS

DATES

1

Tentative vacancy in different subject/speciality after allotment in 2nd round of online seat Allocation.

24 July 2024 (Wednesday).

2

Online Registration and Exercising of Choices (Institute and subject/speciality) for Open Round of Seat Allocation.

From: 24 July 2024 (Wednesday) to 30 July 2024 up to 05.00 pm (Tuesday).

3

Announcement of seat allocation of Open Round.

14 August 2024 (Wednesday)

4

Online Acceptance of allocated seat.

*From 16 August 2024, 11.00 am (Friday) to 22 August 2024 up to 05.00 pm (Thursday) .

5

Date of Reporting.

From: 16 August 2024, 11.00 am (Friday) to 22 August 2024 up to 05.00 pm (Thursday).

STEPS TO REGISTER FOR THE OPEN ROUND OF ONLINE SEAT ALLOCATION

STEP 1- To Register go to AIIMS official website.

STEP 2- Select your desired course “[MD/MS.(M.Ch.(6yrs.)/DM(6yrs.)]” / “MDS” under the “Academic Courses” tab and then click on the “Registration/Login” under General Links to proceed further to register.

STEP 3- Enter your Registration ID and Password to log in.

STEP 4- On “My Page” click on the “Register for Open Round of Seat Allocation” link.

STEP 5- Opt for choice to register for the Open Round of Seat Allocation.

Candidates who have appeared in INI-CET PG for the July 2024 session held on Sunday, 19th May 2024 and obtained the following percentile will be deemed to be provisionally eligible (subject to other criteria) to participate in the Open Round of Seat Allocation-

1 Unreserved (UR)/EWS/Foreign National/OCI – 50th percentile.

2 OBC, SC, ST, PwBD – 45th percentile.

3 Bhutani National – 45th percentile.

All provisionally eligible candidates who do not hold any seat by allotment and wish to participate in the Open Round of Seat Allotment are required to deposit Rs.3.00 lakh through RTGS/NEFT by 5 PM on 30 August 2024. The details of the Transaction with Transaction ID/UTR number, Date of Transaction, Name of the Bank and amount of electronic fund transfer should be updated in the online registration form of Open round of seat allocation with uploading of print of the electronic fund transfer.

All candidates who have been allocated a seat in the open round are required to join the allocated seat at the allotted institute by 5 pm on 22 August 2024. If the candidate does not join the allocated seat, then the security deposited amount of Rs.3 Lakh will be forfeited and no correspondence will be entertained in this regard.

All candidates are required to deposit Rs. 3,00,000.00 as security are required to provide the bank details with a scanned copy of the cheque of the bank account in which the refund (if any) is to be credited; as required in the portal. The refund (if any) will be processed in due course after the closure of all processes and verification from all aspects. No correspondence regarding early refunds will be entertained.

Candidates will be allowed to fill choices for any Subject/Speciality for which there was any seat published before the 1st round of counselling irrespective of the published vacancy of the Open Round, as during allotment for the Open Round, vacancy in any Subject/Speciality may change.

Also Read: AIIMS INI CET July 2024 Round 2 seat matrix out, 771 Seats Available for candidates

OBC(NCL)/EWS CANDIDATES

The status of the applicable reserve category for all OBC/EWS candidates participating in the Open Round of Seat Allocation will be considered as per verification done before 1st round of online seat allocation. The OBC/EWS certificate must be valid for admission to Central Govt. Institution. The validity of OBC/EWS certification should be as follows-

1 Date(s) of valid OBC(NCL) certificate- The OBC(-NCL) certificates should have been issued between 20 May 2023 to 19 May 2024 (date of Exam) both dates inclusive.

2 Date(s) of valid EWS certificate- The EWS certificate must be valid for the financial year 2024- 2025 and issued between 01 April 2024 to 19 May 2024 (on or before the date of the Exam), both dates inclusive based on the income of the year 2023-2024.

Candidates availing of constitutional reservation must show valid proof of their claim for a reserved seat at the allocated Institute when they are depositing original certificates. In case they do not possess a valid certificate then their claim for the reserved seat allocated will be nullified. The OBC/EWS certificate must be valid for admission to Central Govt. Institution.

Produce printout of the Registration slip & Admit Card at the time of joining along with all original certificates and one set of Photocopy of certificates.

All Certificates including claims for constitutional reservation will be subject to verification. Candidature can be cancelled at any stage further if any of the documents is found to be invalid.

Candidates availing PWBD horizontal reservation must show valid proof of their claim for allocated reserved seats at the reporting INIs when they are depositing original certificates. Confirmation of admission shall be subjected to verification of Disability by the Medical Board of INIs for all candidates (more details will be provided in the result of the Open round of seat allocation). In case they do not possess a valid certificate then their claim for the reserved seat allocated will be nullified, and they will be eligible to appear further in their respective category (UR/OBC/SC/ST/EWS) candidate as applicable without PWBD reservation subject to cut off in respective category.

UPPER AGE LIMIT

1 NIMHANS, Bengaluru (As on 1st July 2024)- The age validation for Courses of NIMHANS under INI-CET for the July 2024 session.

For the MD Psychiatry Course

i General/Unreserved Category’- 32 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1992 are eligible).

ii ‘OBC Category’- 35 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1989 are eligible).

iii ‘SC/ST Category’-37 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1987 are eligible).

iv ‘Sponsored Category’- 45 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1979 are eligible).

For DM (Neurology), M.Ch. Neurosurgery (Post MBBS category) Course & MD Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

i 32 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1992 are eligible).

2 SCTIMST Trivandrum (As on 1st July 2024)- The age validation for Courses of SCTIMST under INI-CET for the July 2024 session.

i General/Unreserved/OBC/EWS/Sponsored/Foreign National category- 40 Years (candidates Born on or after 01.07.1984 are eligible).

ii SC/ST – 45 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1979 are eligible).

All candidates who have been allocated a seat in any previous round of seat allocation and have joined/reported on the allocated seat as per the procedure of joining/reporting & holding the seat and wish to participate in the open round are allowed to participate, subject to following-

1 If any Seat is being allocated to them out of choices filled in the open round, the original allocated seat (currently holding) shall be automatically vacated (deemed resignation) during the allocation process and such seat will be offered to other candidates in the open round in order of merit subject to rules applicable in respective INIs.

2 All such candidates should be liable to pay penalty as applicable at respective INIs and penalty if any applicable as per INI-CET Seat allocation rules. In addition, accrued salary (if any) / Stipend will be forfeited.

3 All such candidates by registering and filling choices for an open round are deemed to have agreed as above without any separate confirmation or notice

5 Please take utmost care, read and understand the above carefully before participating in the open round.

Any seat of the July 2024 session falling vacant because of resignation (after joining) will be added during allocation.

Any seat that remains unfilled will be converted in the Open round. At JIPMER respective reserve Category roster points will be filled from the unreserved candidate in case no reserve category candidate is available in the respective reserve category at the roster point under consideration for allocation.

Meanwhile, as per the vacant seat positions, there are a total of 636 Available for the Open Round of Online Seat allocation for admission to PG courses of INIs [(MD/MS/DM(6 years)/MCh(6 years)/MDS] for INI-CET July 2024 session. Below are the detailed vacant seat positions.

Also Read: INI-CET July 2024: PGIMER To Hold 1st Counselling For Sponsored candidates on July 4th, details

VACANT SEAT POSITIONS OF MD/MS/DM(6 YEARS)/MCh(6 YEARS)

S.NO

INSTITUTE

VACANT SEATS

1

AIIMS BATHINDA.

24

2

AIIMS BIBINAGAR.

13

3

AIIMS BILASPUR.

8

4

AIIMS DEOGHAR.

10

5

AIIMS GORAKHPUR.

21

6

AIIMS GUWAHATI.

31

7

AIIMS JAMMU.

28

8

AIIMS KALYANI.

16

9

AIIMS RAEBARELI.

26

10

AIIMS RAJKOT.

12

11

AIIMS BHOPAL.

41

12

AIIMS BHUBANESWAR.

37

13

AIIMS JODHPUR.

27

14

AIIMS MANGALAGIRI.

28

15

AIIMS NAGPUR.

17

16

AIIMS NEW DELHI.

64

17

AIIMS PATNA.

25

18

AIIMS RAIPUR.

33

19

AIIMS RISHIKESH.

20

20

AIIMS PUDUCHERRY.

39

21

AIIMS BENGALURU.

9

22

AIIMS CHANDIGARH.

24

TOTAL

553

VACANT SEAT POSITIONS FOR FOREIGN NATIONAL/SPONSORED

S.NO

INSTITUTE

VACANT SEATS

1

AIIMS BHOPAL.

15

2

AIIMS JODHPUR.

9

3

AIIMS NEW DELHI.

34

4

AIIMS RAIPUR.

1

5

AIIMS RISHIKESH.

12

6

AIIMS PUDUCHERRY.

5

7

AIIMS BENGALURU.

2

8

AIIMS CHANDIGARH.

4

9

SCTIMST TRIVANDRUM.

1

TOTAL

83

To view the information brochure, click the link below

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/information-brochure-245028.pdf

To view the vacant seat positions, click the link below

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/vacant-seat-positions-245029.pdf

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High scoring NEET 2024 candidates approach SC seeking retest

Amid the ongoing litigations concerning the National Eligibility-and-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024 examination, a group of candidates who scored more than 640 out of 720 marks in the exam approached the Supreme Court seeking a retest.
Filing their intervention today i.e. on July 22, 2024, they urged the Apex Court bench to accept their application to be impleaded in the case “Surbhi Singh & Ors”.
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Health Bulletin 24/ July/ 2024

Here are the top health news for the day:

Chandipura virus: More than 32 dead in worst outbreak in over 20 years
The worst outbreak of the Chandipura virus in over 20 years has killed at least 32 people, primarily children and teenagers, in India over the past month. The poorly understood disease, known to jump from insects to humans only in India, has infected more than 80 people in Gujarat, with additional cases in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Part of the same virus family as Rabies, Chandipura is mainly transmitted by sandflies, but also by mosquitoes and ticks. It predominantly affects those under 15, with symptoms ranging from fever and headache to encephalitis, convulsions, seizures, coma, and death. The current death rate is estimated at 76%, though many asymptomatic cases likely reduce the actual fatality rate.
CIC gives deadline to NMC to make medical college assessment reports public
Reiterating its earlier stand, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has once again directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to regularly upload the assessment reports of all the medical colleges on the NMC website, in compliance with the provisions of Section 4 of the RTI Act to boost transparency and in the larger public interest concerning the quality of medical education in the country. With this, the CIC has given a deadline to the apex medical commission.
However, CIC clarified that the NMC needs to ensure that these reports are uploaded after taking into consideration the exemptions listed under section 8 (1) and Section 9 of the RTI Act.
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Union Budget 2024: Health ministry receives Rs 90,958.63 crore allocation
In the 2024-2025 Union Budget, the Union Health Ministry has been allocated Rs 90,958.63 crore, an increase of 12.96 per cent over the Rs 80,517.62 crore 2023-24 revised estimates.
Further, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who tabled the Union Budget 2024-2025 today i.e. on July 23, 2024, announced Custom Duty exemptions on three cancer treatment drugs- Trastuzumab Deruxtecan, Osimertinib and Durvalumab.
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NEET UG 2024: Supreme Court dismisses pleas for re-examination
Putting an end to the ongoing litigations regarding the National Eligibility-and-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024 Examination, the Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra today dismissed the pleas seeking the re-conduction of the NEET UG 2024 examination due to the allegations of paper leak.
Observing that there was no systemic breach for scrapping the entire exam held on May 5th, 2024, the top court bench clarified that there would be no re-exam of NEET.
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Eliminating racial disparities in follow-up colonoscopy rates would reduce colon cancer incidence and death rates: Study

A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that eliminating the race disparity in colon cancer testing in the United States would dramatically reduce colon cancer, and colon cancer death rates, among Black people.

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Peri-operative care of transgender and gender-diverse individuals: New guidance for clinicians and departments

New guidance on peri-operative care of transgender and gender-diverse individuals is published in Anaesthesia to guide best practice to ensure the safety and dignity of transgender and gender-diverse people in the peri-operative period. The guidance has been produced by a working group of experts including Dr. Stuart Edwardson, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; and Dr. Luke Flower, Victor Philip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, Cambridge, UK, and colleagues.

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A commercial intraoral camera with the ability to screen for cancer

At the forefront of a movement to rewrite oral and oropharyngeal cancer outcomes, Dr. Petra Wilder-Smith has spent the last two decades working on devices for early detection.

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