The specially branded Steel Express had its inaugural run from Tatanagar marking the year-long centenary celebration of Jamshedpur. Through this branding initiative, the Steel Express, which will run between Tatanagar and Howrah, will exhibit the legacy, culture, and journey milestones of the steel ...
“It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for” was how Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General and a co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize had looked at the growing health issue of the world....
‘’The mismatch between the objectives and resources is at the heart of the inadequacies and inequities of the health system.”- Dr. N. J. KurianAccording to the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) published in the medical journal ‘The Lancet’, India ranks 154 among 195 countries on the hea...
Breast cancer may sound like a death sentence to many of us. Half of the women who come to us have benign (non cancerous) conditions of the breast, and most of the time reassurance is all they need. The other half, are indeed found to have breast cancer on different tests. Q. What is a tumour, and a...
ILS Hospitals started as a Specialty Clinic of Laparoscopic surgery in 2000 in Salt Lake, Kolkata. Today, it has a state-of-the-art 80-bedded facility in Salt Lake. Dr. Ghanshyam Goyal is the Head of the Department of Diabetology at ILS Hospitals, Kolkata. He is one of the prominent diabetologists i...
The Constitution of India guarantees free healthcare to its citizens. However, in the case of private healthcare, expenses are paid out of the pocket of the patient or through insurance. Public healthcare is mostly free or highly subsidised. In a country with a population of 132.42 crores, providing...
Quality is the result of intelligent efforts. Quality means doing it the right way even when no one is vigilant.In the healthcare profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple primary necessity. Providing quality care has become a way of life but it comes at a price...
Universal accessibility of essential medicines is a persistent problem in India. The problem is more acute for the economically marginalised sections. Over the years, India’s healthcare policy has evolved to benefit the private sector and the affluent sections rather than focusing on the vulnerabl...
In a developing country like India, the prices of medicines, in most cases, are higher than what they should be. But the determination of affordable prices of essential medicines is not very easy. This is because the producers of medicines argue that it involves a huge cost in R&D to produce vit...
Foreword Dr. Anup Majumdar, Ex-Professor & Head of Radiotherapy, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research and S.S.K.M. Hospital, Kolkata, briefly shared with BE, an excerpt from his lifelong experience in treating cancer patients. He said, “Even after being in the field of c...