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The Times of India - Credibility of MCI will be restored, says Azad:

As MCI continues to reel under a severe crisis of credibility, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said it was the government’s immediate objective to ensure that the body responsible for regulating medical education in the country worked in a fair [...]

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Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]

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To overcome the acute shortage and uneven distribution of human resources in public health delivery system, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare aims at overhauling the current regulatory framework. Toward this end, it is proposed to set up a National Council for Human Resources in Health as an overarching regulatory body to achieve the [...]

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Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]

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Note: This post is a request for support for a healthcare related bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways of Web 2.0.
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That was the first thing that I thought after I read the leader page article by Prof. K. S. Jacob in The Hindu on Thursday.
We need people like this as policy makers. Especially at times like these when those that rule are looking for band-aid solutions like medical conscription to patch up a badly ailing [...]

This is in support of the token strike by medical students in Tamil Nadu [News reports here & here].
As usual the print media devoted a few column inches to the strike and promptly forgot about the issue after the processions and strike were over. I do not know if the TV news shows provided any [...]

Talk during today’s morning walk turned to the Virginia Tech Shooting.
Suresh agreed with the sentiments expressed by Mathew Scheeberger (in this article). The fact that Scheeberger is from Cleveland, Ohio would anyway have found favour with Suresh as a former resident and a student at CSU.
I had just learnt from the article that [...]