Politics Archive
The Week: Medical & Dental Councils of India are cancerous
1 Comment Published by Vijay October 13th, 2009 in Healthcare, Life in India, Medical Education, Medicine, Nebulous Views, News, Politics, Reviews…
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 [...]
NCHRH Task Force Report & Draft Bill
0 Comments Published by Vijay September 28th, 2009 in Healthcare, Life in India, Medical Education, News, Politics…
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 [...]
Medical Council of India: The Rot Within
9 Comments Published by Vijay September 10th, 2009 in Ethics, Healthcare, Life in India, Medical Education, Medical Journals, Medical blogs, Medicine, News, Politics…
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 [...]
Support the NCHRH Bill
9 Comments Published by Vijay September 7th, 2009 in Healthcare, Life in India, Medical Education, Medicine, News, Politics…
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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We Need People Like This In The Planning Commission.
1 Comment Published by Vijay December 8th, 2007 in Healthcare, Life in India, Medicine, News, PoliticsThat 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 [...]
Say No To Medical Conscription.
10 Comments Published by Vijay November 17th, 2007 in Life in India, Medical Education, Medicine, News, PoliticsThis 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 [...]
Follow-up To Yesterday’s Post.
3 Comments Published by Vijay April 18th, 2007 in Life in India, Nebulous Views, News, PoliticsTalk 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 [...]
Stupid Governments + Stupid Laws + Stupid People = Tragedy.
3 Comments Published by Vijay April 17th, 2007 in News, PoliticsThe Virginia Tech Massacre is shocking at many levels: the utter waste of so many lives, the awful security on campus, the failure to inform students about the extant danger, etc.,
And it affected someone too close to home…
G V Loganathan, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who graduated from IIT Kanpur and completed [...]













