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  • Indian paediatricians ask government to add mumps vaccine to immunisation programme
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2015
    Co-Authors: Ganapati Mudur
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    The Indian Academy of Paediatrics has asked India’s Health Ministry to add the mumps vaccine to the free childhood immunisation programme, saying that this viral infection is a serious public Health concern. In a position paper the academy asked the Health Ministry to add the mumps vaccine to those of measles and rubella, citing the government’s own disease surveillance data and 14 peer reviewed publications as evidence for the widespread prevalence of mumps.1 The Health Ministry’s integrated disease surveillance programme investigated 72 outbreaks of mumps over a five year period, from September 2009 to November 2014, with a total of …

  • India’s Health Ministry and doctors call for higher taxes on tobacco
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2014
    Co-Authors: Ganapati Mudur
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    India’s Health Ministry has asked the finance Ministry to substantially raise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products, expressing concerns over the economic burden imposed by diseases associated with tobacco and the failure of the existing tax structures to curb tobacco consumption. The Health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has requested the finance minister, Arun Jaitley, to increase taxes to 3.50 rupees per stick on all lengths of cigarettes in the budget for 2014-15 to be presented in parliament next month. The current taxes range from 0.67 rupees to 2.36 rupees. “The tax would be applied to all lengths of cigarettes to prevent the [tobacco] industry [from] shifting production and marketing to lower length cigarettes as has been the past practice,” Vardhan wrote in an official note sent to the finance minister on 19 June. The note follows two summary reports from the Public Health Foundation of India in …

  • indian doctors criticise Health Ministry s plan to curb medical brain drain
    BMJ, 2012
    Co-Authors: Ganapati Mudur
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    Sections of India’s medical community have decried a decision by the Health Ministry to make it obligatory for Indian medical graduates who pursue higher studies in the United States to return to India for at least two years after their studies. The Ministry said last week that it has stopped issuing “No obligation to return to India” certificates required under US visa rules by foreign medical graduates who wish to remain in the United States after study periods lasting up to seven years. It also said that it would provide Indian medical graduates with documents needed for US visa applications only if they pledge through notarised affidavits to return to serve in India for two years. The decision comes amid longstanding concerns that India is a large exporter of doctors and that most medical graduates from India who …

  • Indian Health Ministry challenges report of totally drug resistant tuberculosis.
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2012
    Co-Authors: Ganapati Mudur
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    Sections of India’s medical community have decried what they see as an attempt by the Indian Health Ministry to underplay the country’s first report of totally drug resistant tuberculosis and to censure the hospital that reported the infection last month. A team of doctors at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai described four patients infected with tuberculosis bacilli resistant to all first line and second line drugs conventionally used to treat tuberculosis in the Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases last December (doi:10.1093/cid/cir889). The Health Ministry, which independently examined the patients’ records, has said that the term “totally drug resistant” tuberculosis is “misleading” and has not been endorsed by the World Health Organization. It has classified the cases as extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. In a statement, the Ministry also said that the Hinduja Hospital had not received accreditation from the government to conduct drug sensitivity tests for …

  • Antivaccine lobby resists introduction of Hib vaccine in India.
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2010
    Co-Authors: Ganapati Mudur
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    A campaign against the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine in India launched by some medical professionals has delayed a government plan to introduce the vaccine through its free national immunisation programme for children. The Health Ministry had last year announced that it would replace the standard vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus with a pentavalent vaccine that would also protect children against hepatitis B and Hib. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), after consultation with the Indian Health Ministry, had pledged in August 2009 a grant of $165m (£110m; €135m) to roll out the new vaccine to cover 10 million children in 10 of India’s 28 states in 2010. The Hib organism, which can cause severe bacterial meningitis and pneumonia, is estimated to kill more than 370 000 children worldwide each year, GAVI said. Nearly 20% of these deaths occur in India. But the campaign mounted against the Hib vaccine …

Kirsti Hermstad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • surveillance system for surgical site infections including post discharge surveillance in central norway regional Health authority
    American Journal of Infection Control, 2014
    Co-Authors: Anita Boerseth, Kirsti Hermstad
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    of activated hydrogen peroxide for room decontamination as an adjunct to mechanical reduction of biomass/bioburden on surfaces. More traditional terminal cleaning Methods had previously proven to be ineffective. Following development of specific protocols, efficacy of decontamination was independently investigated and evaluated by the Health Ministry using laboratory-based microbiology culture techniques. RESULTS: Data presented shows significant reduction of various bacteria on critical surfaces (non-fermenting bacteria e ventilator 2,500CFU/50cm2 to <1 CFU/50cm2; Enterobacter cloacae e food table 1,400CFU/cm2 to <1CFU/cm2; and Enterobacter cloacae and Citrobacter freundii 310CFU to<1CFU). In the year prior to program implementation, the Health Ministry detected 71 cases (40 fatalities) of Klebsiella pneumoniae and 65 (28 fatalities) new cases in the month the program was implemented. The Health Ministry reported that in the 2 months following implementation, 6 new cases were detected and surveillance conducted 8 months later showed no new cases in the 2-months observed. LESSON LEARNED: Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreaks can be managed using a programmatic infection control approach integrating adequate environmental controls and verification, patient screening and surveillance, proper treatment, and hygiene. Traditional means and materials used for cleaning and thought to achieve sufficient reduction in surface contamination cannot be relied upon in the absence of such a program. Laboratory assay can quantify field efficacy of environmental decontamination and reduced HAI incidence is a metric for overall program effectiveness.

Judy Siegel-itzkovich - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Israeli Health Ministry officials face charges relating to faulty baby formula
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2008
    Co-Authors: Judy Siegel-itzkovich
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    Nearly five years after an imported baby formula that was lacking in thiamin (vitamin B1) allegedly caused beriberi in Israeli babies fed solely with the product, eight people, including a senior Health Ministry physician, have been indicted for causing the deaths by negligence of three infants and severe or potentially severe injury in more than 20 others. The kosher, soya based powder, prepared solely for Israel by the German company Humana, did not include a thiamin supplement in a new formula it began manufacturing in 2003 (bmj.com, 15 Nov 2003, News Extra doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7424.1128-i). Although senior officials in the Israeli import company Remedia allegedly knew (according to the indictment) that Humana had decided to stop adding the vitamin, they did nothing about it and did not …

  • Experiments on army volunteers in Israel will be overseen by the Health Ministry.
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2008
    Co-Authors: Judy Siegel-itzkovich
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    Personnel in the Israel Defence Forces who served in tests of antidotes for anthrax, nerve gas, and other toxic substances will soon be protected under supervision of the Health Ministry. Clinical trials in the military began more than 35 years ago and have continued to this day without the army’s medical corps informing the participants what pills they are given and the risks. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel petitioned the High Court of Justice on behalf of soldiers of various ages who took part in the unsupervised experiments without …

  • Israeli Health Ministry lambasted for negligence over medical experiments
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2005
    Co-Authors: Judy Siegel-itzkovich
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    Thousands of Israelis, from infants to demented old people, have in recent years been included in illegal medical experiments, some without informed consent being given by the patient or his or her parent or guardian, as required by the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. This was disclosed by Eliezer Goldberg, Israel's state comptroller, in his semi-annual report monitoring the functions of public bodies. The comptroller severely criticised the Health Ministry for negligence and carelessness in supervising hospitals' clinical trials, some of which involved potentially harmful invasive tests and treatments. He also lambasted the Ministry for spending eight years preparing a government …

  • Israel to move more psychiatric services into the community
    BMJ, 2003
    Co-Authors: Judy Siegel-itzkovich
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    After a seven year delay the government of Israel has decided to shift responsibility for mental Health care from the Health Ministry to the four public Health funds that insure the entire population. All involved—the insurers, the Health Ministry, patients' groups, staff at psychiatric hospitals and clinics, and the finance Ministry—have finally endorsed the change, which will become effective on 15 April. Inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care will be included in the basket of Health services supplied by the Health funds to all Israelis who need it. The reform is also intended to reduce the stigma …

  • Israel's Health Ministry ends circumcisers' monopoly
    BMJ, 2001
    Co-Authors: Judy Siegel-itzkovich
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    Israeli doctors will be able to apply for certification to perform circumcision under the Health Ministry's plans to end a long standing monopoly held by non-medically qualified practitioners. The move follows the Ministry's decision not to contest a lawsuit brought to the High Court of Justice by a private clinic group in Tel Aviv. Mila Tova (good circumcision in Hebrew) took the Ministry to court for refusing to certify its three urologists for performing circumcisions. The Health Ministry has since agreed to issue a directive to Israeli hospitals allowing them for the first time to certify doctors able to perform such procedures. Acting Ministry director general …

Cheryl Travasso - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Indian Health Ministry told to develop a framework for cancer screening.
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2016
    Co-Authors: Cheryl Travasso
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    India’s Health Ministry has been given a three month deadline by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to develop a framework for a screening programme to detect cancers of the breast, cervix, and mouth.1 Ravi Mehrotra, director of the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, who was also a part of an expert panel in September 2013 that put forward recommendations2 for screening and early detection of cervical, breast, and oral cancers, predicted that …

  • Indian Health Ministry refutes UK journal editor’s criticism of Health sector
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2015
    Co-Authors: Cheryl Travasso
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    A spat has broken out between India’s Health Ministry and the editor in chief of the Lancet after he lambasted the Indian government for sidelining the Health of its people and putting national security at risk. In an interview with the Times of India Richard Horton criticised Narendra Modi’s government for ignoring the Health sector and failing to generate any new ideas or policies and to commit more money to Health.1 The Lancet is due to publish a paper in December that will criticise Modi for sidelining his promise to roll out universal Healthcare coverage and for neglecting public Health. Horton told the Times of …

  • Medical Council of India approves proposal for single entrance exam for medical school.
    BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2015
    Co-Authors: Cheryl Travasso
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    The Medical Council of India has approved a proposal from the Health Ministry for a single national exam for entry to medical school. Currently students applying for undergraduate and postgraduate medical degrees in India have to take multiple entrance exams set by individual state governments, private medical colleges, and universities. The joint proposal for a single national exam, prepared by the Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India, was unanimously adopted at …

  • india plans to set up central e Health authority to improve Healthcare delivery
    BMJ, 2015
    Co-Authors: Cheryl Travasso
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    India’s Health Ministry has announced plans to create a national e-Health authority to promote, regulate, and set standards on the implementation of e-Health solutions and the use of information and communications technology in the Health sector. The Healthcare system in India is highly complex and delivers services to around 1.24 billion people, about a third of whom (32%) live in urban areas. Although several Healthcare centres have their own information systems, records …

  • indian Health Ministry orders encephalitis vaccination in select districts after more than 500 deaths
    BMJ, 2014
    Co-Authors: Cheryl Travasso
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    India’s Health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has ordered that everything be done to ensure 100% immunisation coverage of children living in select Indian districts that are plagued each year by two strains of encephalitis. The immunisation drive will take place on 22 and 23 June.1 The move came after recent deaths among children in Bihar and a death toll in Uttar Pradesh of more than 500 in the past year. Recent figures showed that 124 children had now succumbed to acute encephalitis syndrome in the state of Bihar.2 The World Health Organization3 4 has said that acute encephalitis syndrome is …

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