Vikas Vaidya

      By Vikas Vaidya The prevalence urinary incontinence in postmenopausal Indian women is as high as 59% according to studies done in India. The commonest type of urinary incontinence seen is Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) and the other type is urge incontinence. Dr N Rajamaheshwari the first lady Urogynaecologist in the country and specialised in the procedure to prevent urinary incontinence. She says that the awareness about urinary incontenence is rising, people are coming forward. After completing her post graduation she was working in a hospital in rural area, there she realised need and necessity to improve the competency and skill with reference to urinary system which is very close to genital tract. There she felt that the super specialisation is needed in urogynaecology. She then went on to acquire MCH in urology when she had already done Gynaecology post graduation. This way Dr N Rajamaheshwari became the first lady Urogynaecologist in the country who has urge

By Vikas Vaidya After completing her post graduation she was working in a hospital in rural area, there she realised need and necessity to improve the competency and skill with reference to urinary system which is very close to genital tract. There she felt that the super specialisation is needed in urogynaecology. She then went on to acquire MCH in urology when she had already done Gynaecology post graduation. Dr N Rajamaheshwari the first lady Urogynaecologist in the country has urged Government to start super specialisation in Urogynaecology. She is in city to deliver lecture organised by Nagpur Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society (NOGS). There is some emotional reason behind her acquiring super speciality skills in urogynaecology. But that was not the only reason behind her efforts to request government to start super specialisation in urogynaecology. Dr Rajamaheshwari retired from Government hospital in 2002. According to her what she was learning in 1980

By Vikas Vaidya Everything is certainly not right with law admissions. Now, Maharashtra Government has flashed a red card to almost 40% law colleges in the State including some of the most well known and oldest Law colleges including Government Law College, and RTMNU’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Law College, which produced some of the best legal talent in the country. Interestingly, Higher Education department granted only a day to remove the deficiencies to these colleges and has now asked students to be cautious about admissions. The status of each college has been marked with certain colour indicating deficiencies and current status. Since the process of giving options for law colleges has begun, Government has asked the students to read the meaning of colour of the colleges mentioned in the website before opting it. Already the admission process has been delayed though the result of Common Entrance Test for the admissions to Law courses (3 year and 5 years) was declared on June 30.

By Vikas Vaidya The students can get minority status on self declaration. On the basis of undertaking given by students, they get admission in minority quota. Shocking! This was disclosed by Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) itself. Many engineering colleges having linguistic minority status have admitted students of non-minority in their minority quota by taking the advantage of circular of 2013 issued by minority department which says that students can give the declaration and claimed the minority. This year the engineering admissions has brought many changes. One of the changes is the minority colleges would be able to fill the vacant seats from general category candidates only in the last rounds. As per the draft rules notified by DTE, it has been laid down that, this year vacant seats surrendered by the minority institutions of minority quota in the rounds conducted under Centralised Admission Process (CAP) round no. 1 to be filled only from the candidates from respect

  This is the auditorium where autopsy is conducted which can be watched by students or teachers By Vikas Vaidya Can one imagine mortuaries with big auditorium and state of the art arrangement in Government Medical Colleges? Yes is the answer to this question. Soon Government Medical Colleges, District Hospitals to have mortuaries matching to the five star hotel. Goa Medical College has such kind of mortuary. Taking leaf out of Goa medical college’s book Maharashtra will be developing such mortuaries. The issue was raised by Nagpur’s MLC Girish Vyas in State Legislative Council on Thursday. To this querry, Chairman of Council assured House that Goa pattern would be followed to establish state of the art mortuaries in State’s Medical Colleges. In a case Sahyog Trust vs Maharashtra Government, the division bench of Justice Bhushan Gavai and Mrudula Bhatkar at Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court had passed an order asking Government to visit mortuary at Goa Medical College develop

By Vikas Vaidya Maharashtra Government has decided to start Government Medical Colleges with the support of private partnership. A committee has been constituted under the Chairmanship of Dr Vedprakash Mishra, Chancellor of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Karad that will prepare a proposal suggesting the alternative models, that would be submitted to Government within a month. Joint Director of Directorate of Medical Education and Research Dr Prakash Wakode will be its member. Medical Education Minister Vinod Tawde has issued the directions in that regard. There are many districts in Maharashtra where there is no Government Medical College exist at present. Government has proposed that Government Medical College can be established in these districts to be run with support of private partnership. Almost all districts have District Hospital. To run any medical college, one will need good hospital of at least 100 beds. So, Government is planning to upgrade this district ho

By Vikas Vaidya The Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), considered the biggest hospital in Asia the area-wise, registered drastic decrease in number of patients attending Out Patient Department (OPD). The number of deaths of cancer, swine flu and paediatric patients in the year 2015 have been increased as compared to the number of deaths in 2013. Comparative deaths of TB patients have been decreased. In the year 2013, a total of 4,804 persons died. The number increased to 5,296 in the year 2014 which was further increased to 5,798 in the year 2015. In the year 2013, the OPD registered visit of 5,74,621 patients. The number was increased to 6,08,761 in 2014 which was reduced further to 5,96,583. The reason best known to authorities. This information was shared by the GMCH in an RTI reply to renowned RTI activist Abhay Kolarkar. A total of 20,03,457 patients of all ages visiting the hospital in the past three years for treatment of different diseases. The deadly swine fl

By Vikas Vaidya Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University has decided to decentralise the examination valuation. This decision was taken in the meeting of Board of Examinations held on Thursday. Till now the valuation was done at Nagpur only, now it will be done at Bhandara, Wardha and Gondia too. RTMNU is streamlining the examination and result system. Though the results are being declared late, the blame to be put on earlier outdated system which is being given new life by Dr Pramod Yeole, Pro-Vice Chancellor. The present changes is the brainchild of new Pro-VC. Recently University has started on-screen valuation in Engineering, Pharmacy and Law which gave fantastic results. Dr Yeole said, “Since there was only one centre in Nagpur, the teachers doing valuation have to travel all the way from their distant places. Many times colleges too were reluctant to send their teachers as the teaching hours got hampered. Now the centres would be at their place and they could reach ther

By Vikas Vaidya In an effort to strengthen the security of Government Medical Colleges across the state, the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has issued security apparatus but seems to have excluded all GMCs in Vidarbha. Names of these Government run institutions are simply missing from the DMER list. Considering the rising number of attacks on doctors, especially Residents, the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) had demanded to enhance the security in the GMCs in Maharashtra. MARD had to submit repeated demands to deans and DMER and finally the authorities acted on it and the DMER had released the order for Medical colleges in State except all four colleges from Vidarbha viz. Nagpur’s Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH), Yavatmal’s Vasantrao Naik Government Medical College and Hospital and Akola’s GMCH. The shocking fact has reflected in the report submitted by Security

By Vikas Vaidya In a major respite to proposed private medical colleges the Medical Council of India (MCI) has recommended that they need not have their own hospitals. On the contrary, these colleges will be allowed to use and maintain the nearby Government run hospital and health-care facility. This will save lot of public expenditure on Government Hospitals and simultaneously provide a readymade hospital infrastructure to new private medical colleges. However, the relaxation will not be applicable in districts where two or more medical colleges are already in existence. This decision has been recently notified by Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry. A MCI panel led by Dr Vedprakash Mishra while recommending this relaxation, put the onus of maintaining entire health infrastructure on private colleges and made it mandatory to safeguard the interest of State Governments. These private medical college while availing Government-owned hospital has to keep 20% seats reserved fo

By Vikas Vaidya The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) has launched campaign named ‘Swachha Vaidyakiy Shikshan Abhiyan’ as a part of its fight against the alleged corrupt practices by College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS). The top body of doctors Indian Medical Association too have come forward. Its President Jayesh Lele and Secretary Dr Parthiv Sanghvi has written to Medical Education Minister Vinod Tawde wherein they have demanded that an inquiry should be instituted into the working of CPS and pending inquiry suspend the present council by appointing an Administrator.  “We will be holding a candlelight march, wear black ribbons at work and take out a rally to register our protest," said Dr Sagar Mundada, Central MARD President. He added that MARD has sent letters to the medical education minister as well as the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC). The MMC called CPS for hearing 6 times in the past several months to look into the complaints but none of

By Vikas Vaidya The special and privilaged treatment given by Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) at Nagpur to ex-MLA, who is arrested in connection with a financial fraud on the orders of High Court, has raised eyebrows of several activists who have questioned the decision of hospital administration for extending such a hospitality to an accused. Khamgaon police had arrested former Congress MLA Dilip Sananda in relation to a corruption case pertaining to award of a contract for constructing the Khamgaon Municipal building in Buldhana and as it happen in cases involving such high-profile persons, Sananda complained of ill-health and after spending five days in police custody, he was taken to GMCH for medical examination and lodged in a paid ward, in violation of established norms. The former Congress MLA initially evaded arrest in the case after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court, but after exhausting all legal remed

By Vikas Vaidya The students who got admission in the colleges of professional courses through vacant seats after completion of Centralised Admission Process (CAP) will too get scholarship. Maharashtra Government’s Social Welfare Department has issued a circular through which it has relaxed the earlier condition of alloting scholarship only to those students who got admitted through CAP. The students of Scheduled Caste get scholarship from Central Government. The admission process for any professional courses is conducted in three or four rounds. Most of the colleges surrender their seats in CAP. Till last year the scholarship was given to those students who got admission during those rounds. If the seats remained vacant after all rounds then competent authority asks the colleges to fill up those seats on their own. In that case students were not eligible to get the scholarship. Such students had to pay whatever the fees colleges charge. Now Social Welfare department has brought th

By Vikas Vaidya The team constituted by Nagpur’s Joint Director (Technical Education) office has found serious loopholes in nine engineering colleges of Nagpur region. The committee had inspected all colleges of this region and identified loopholes. Now the committee would be checking whether the compliance has been made or not. The colleges include Bhausaheb Mulak College of Engineering; Central India College of Engineering and Technology; Namdeorao Poreddiwar College of Engineering and Technology, Gadchiroli; Nagarjuna Institute of  Technology and Management; Acharya Vinoba Bhave College of Engineering, Pavnar; Vidya Niketan College of Engineering; Om College of Engineering, Izapur, Wardha; ITM College of Engineering, Kamptee; V M Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dongargaon. Out of the above colleges, Mulak College, Central India, Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Om College are on the verge of closure while VMIT has registered no single admission. According to DTE, these colleges

By Vikas Vaidya Taking cognizance of The Hitavada report, the office of Minister of Education has called Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) and asked as to why it constituted the committee for compliance of loopholes pointed out by the earlier committee of Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in 48 engineering colleges. The office of the Minister ordered RTMNU to add member nominated by DTE in university committee. The Hitavada had a talk with Director of DTE Dr S K Mahajan, Joint Director Gulabrao Thakare, Minister of Education Vinod Tawde regarding this issue. Surprisingly all were unaware about the RTMNU committee, including RTMNU bosses. When Minister’s office called RTMNU, it created ripples in university circles and The Hitavada got calls from engineering colleges who thanked for raising the issue. To clarify his stand Dr D K Agrawal, Director of Board of College and University Development (BCUD) made a call to The Hitavada and told, “WE got a letter

By Vikas Vaidya The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) has questioned formation of committees by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) to check the compliance’s by technical institutions. The colleges have sent protest letters to the DTE asking why the university formed a separate committee to inspect their college when the DTE has already constituted a panel. Apart from overlapping jurisdiction, the colleges are put to great inconvenience due to jurisdictional conflict between two separate panels. Three months ago, the DTE inspected teaching and other infrastructure facilities at the technical institutions in Maharashtra. During the inspection, the DTE had identified certain loopholes. The colleges concerned were asked to remove the shortcomings and comply with it. Now, the DTE has sent a three-member committee to check whether the colleges have removed the deficiencies or not. Surprisingly, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU), too, decid

By Vikas Vaidya Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) had inspected the technical institutions in Maharashtra 3 months ago. In the same inspection it had identified certain loopholes. The concerned colleges had been asked to remove the same. Now DTE sending one member committee to check whether the colleges have removed the deficiencies or not. Surprisingly, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) too has decided do inspection separately. The University committees which are of 5 membes each has the predominance of Wardha, the reasons best known to the authorities. With more than 50% seats across engineering and MBA colleges in Maharashtra lying vacant this year as well, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) had inspected all technical institutions in the state to assess their teaching and other infrastructure facilities. The technical institutes include all engineering, management, polytechnic, architecture, computer and pharmacy colleges in the state. Such