Dr. Suresh Ramasubban, Senior Consultant, Critical Care, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals shared his insights to BE’s Ankita Chakraborty on the nuances of the critical care unit.Q. What kind of illness and injury usually require critical care?A. Life threatening illnesses and injuries typify admi...
The quality of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is an essential healthcare need. Due to continual technological advancements, there has been a sharp increase in the knowledge, technology, and skills that are required to treat critically ill patients. In the US, the Leapfrog Group, which comprises more th...
The healthcare sector in India is booming in terms of revenue generation and employment creation. In India, healthcare is divided into two segments - public and private. The public healthcare segment is responsible for maintaining the primary health requirements in rural and urban areas and is funde...
Paediatrics is an age-based super speciality. A paediatric surgeon deals with all surgeries involving all organs of a child till 12 years of age in India. BE’s Ankita Chakraborty spoke to Dr P.K Mishra, Paediatric Surgeon, NRS Hospital, Kolkata on the scope of this particular branch of surgery.Q.....
Infant mortality is still a major cause of concern in our country, most of which is attributed to conditions like birth asphyxia, pneumonia, birthing complications, neonatal infections, diarrhea, malaria, and malnutrition. Infant mortality is defined as the deaths of children who are less than one y...
China is a country where the media is not free. But one cannot but appreciate the way how the People’s Republic of China handled a group of 20 international journalists invited to visit Xinjiang to feel for themselves and then write about their ambitious project of reconstructing the Silk Route.In...
So Parmarth seems to be more of a ‘city’ ashram, then, rather than a traditional ‘forest’ ashram, wouldn’t you agree?” the interviewer queries. He is a young man from Bombay doing a story on Rishikesh, gurus and the spiritual path in general. He’s come to Parmarth Niketan to take my in...
Every day, while commuting, I see little kids playing and loitering around under the Gariahat flyover. Families reside there, and they are raising their children amidst such poverty. Clad in extremely dirty clothes with dishevelled hair, even matted—you would find these kids roaming around the str...
Millions of animals are torn open every year in laboratories because people – and those in government- feel safer knowing that almost everything that reaches us has been tested on an animal before. The point is – does it make you safer? Imagine inventing a medicine for a bird. It is only tested ...
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata is the foremost centre of learning of different branches of Science. There are seven campuses of IISER in India. Professor Sourav Pal, the director of the Institute in his exclusive interview with BE’s Kishore Kumar Biswas, talks ...