Health Bulletin 30/ July/ 2024
Here are the top health stories for the day:
AIIMS Delhi cardiologist impersonation, woman tricks IT professional into engagement
In a fraud case reported in the city, a woman pretending to be a cardiologist from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi has been arrested for allegedly trying to steal gold jewellery and other valuable items from a senior IT professional on the pretext of marriage.
According to the police, the woman also claimed that she had cleared UPSC’s civil services examination and proposed to the IT professional, Ravi Ranjan of Ganga Vihar, for marriage after befriending him on social media.
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MBBS graduates in Gujarat struggle with bond service orders and NEET PG 2024 clash
More than 1,100 MBBS graduates in Gujarat in a fix over the State Health Department’s order directing them to join their one-year mandatory bond duty at government hospitals in rural and urban areas, as they are going to appear in the National Eligibility-and-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2024 examination, scheduled to be conducted on August 11.
Therefore, the students are now urging the authorities to postpone the reporting time for their bond service postings after August 15, 2024, so that they could appear in the NEET PG 2024 exam, TOI has reported.
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Director-General of health services leads meeting on health promotion and tobacco control
Prof. (Dr) Atul Goel, Director-General of Health Services (DGHS) at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, chaired a hybrid meeting with over 27 major health professional bodies in India. The meeting aimed to advance health promotion initiatives, focusing on promoting healthy diets, physical activity, and addressing non-communicable disease risk factors like tobacco and alcohol use. A key topic was the “Healthy Medical/Dental College Campus” initiative, intended to foster a culture of health and well-being in medical and dental institutions nationwide.
Dr. Goel stressed the importance of shifting healthcare resources towards disease prevention rather than solely focusing on diagnosis and treatment. The discussions included strategies for health promotion, tobacco and alcohol use reduction, and enforcing the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act 2019. Participants, including representatives from the National Medical Commission (NMC), WHO, Indian Medical Association (IMA), and others, unanimously supported the Declaration of Health Promotion and committed to collaborative efforts.
MoS Health reports 1,12,112 MBBS and 72,267 PG medical seats in 731 Indian colleges
There are altogether 1,12,112 MBBS and 72,627 postgraduate (PG) medical seats available in the medical institutes across the country, the Union Minister of State for Health Smt. Anupriya Patel informed the Lok Sabha recently.
She also informed that the number of medical colleges in India has increased by 88% – from 387 medical colleges before 2014 to 731 currently operative in the country.
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