Vikas Vaidya

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 Though the results are being declared late, the blame to be put on earlier outdated system which is being given new life by Dr Pramod Yeole, Pro-Vice Chancellor.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...