Vikas Vaidya

By Vikas Vaidya The cancellation of visit by President of India Pranab Mukherjee to Nagpur has had a larger and adverse impact on the image of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University. It was a big blow for the university administration. Though the reason behind the cancellation of the President’s visit is still unknown, the major one was found to be the doubts raised about the veracity of degrees of over 1,300 students of RTMNU. The degrees were suspected to be bogus and were to be awarded in the presence of the President. The degrees were of the students from 250 colleges, running sans teachers, banned by university. The issue of banned 250 colleges haunted the university’s administration throughout the year. With 250 colleges banned, half of the university came to a near standstill.  All these 250 colleges were running without a single approved teacher. The fact got exposed as Sunil Mishra got the information under Right to Information Act (RTI) from the university about

By Vikas Vaidya While treating any patient, care from within makes a difference. Barring a few hospitals, the care part seemed absent. If suppose in cancer patients, chemotherapy is required which is given through veins, here the care part comes. Repeated pricks should not be there on hand, else it gets burnt. PICC (peripheraly inserted central catheters) is the only good option. The chemotherapy is given for six months so PICC is the only good option, says Dr. Mukta Krishnan, Consultant Onco-physician, at Canada. The estimated number of new cancers in India per year is about 8 lakhs and over 3.5 lakhs people die of cancer each year. For treatment of cancer we have mainly three options, surgery, chemotherapy or combination of surgery and chemotherapy. Despite curative surgeries patient may require chemotherapy. Hence chemotherapy remains as one of the important treatment in cancers not only in India but in world, pointed Dr Krishnan. Dr Krishnan said, “First, the patients fee

By Vikas Vaidya Though the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has taken efforts to fill up teaching posts in Government medical colleges and hospitals in State, the faculty is still woefully short of requirement. In Vidarbha region alone, 21 per cent of the posts in three important categories -- Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor -- are vacant. This has affected the quality of teaching and handling of patients at hospitals attached to medical colleges. Vidarbha region has five medical colleges including Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Nagpur; Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur; Super Speciality Hospital (SSH), Nagpur; GMCH at Akola and Yavatmal. Of a total 110 posts of Professor, 25 are vacant. Similarly, 69 out of 265 sanctioned posts are vacant in the category of Associate Professor. In the category of Assistant Professor, 71 out of 407 sanctioned posts are vacant. If one clubs all these three importan