Pharma-Doctor Unholy Nexus

RNI No. DELBIL/2012/45560 Monthly Newspaper Vol - 3, Issue - 9 DL(E)-20/5415/2015-17 Fitness th th Posting Date 5 - 6 Diet Health st st A Newspaper For the March 1 - 31 , 2015 • ` 10/- • New Delhi Health Conscious Newspaper for the health conscious Yoga Ready Reckoner Of Current Medicine DRUG TODAY Medical Formulations For latest updates and exclusive reports on health and medicine log on to www.drugtodayonline.com a complete website for the MedicalMedicalMedical TimesTimesTimes health conscious CITY SCOPE P2 INSTITUTIONS P3 REVIEW P6 DTMT EXCLUSIVE P14 One hospital closed, another 500 contractual employees in Curcumin therapy effective in Swachh Bharat: Good idea, bad on notice over negligent death Delhi hospitals put on notice recurrent oral lichen planus implementation – opportunity lost Sanitation in Rail Budget After the deathblow, comes NPPA’s balm Assocham’s pharma summit brings a moment of reckoning K.Rasheeduddin industry has been paying a heavy @drugtodayonline.com price for the populist policies of the successive governments at t a time when the pharma the Centre for quite some time industry is struggling for now, of late, things have come to Asurvival under backbreak- such a pass that its survival itself ing restrictions, a word of reas- is in jeopardy. To the relief of common man, surance from the Government Thanks to the undue restric- Railway Minister Suresh would have worked as balm on its tions imposed by the Govern- Prabhu spared passenger festering wounds. But since the ment through NPPA, the sector fare from hike in his maiden much-needed solace came from has lost its proverbial resilience railway budget tabled. In- National Pharmaceutical Pric- power. Such is the eagerness to stead, he promised an af- ing Authority (NPPA), the very exploit the resources of the in- fordable, safer and cleaner statutory agency that inflicted the dustry that the Government has and technology savvy train wounds, the irony was not lost on PEP TALK: Injeti Srinivas yet to wake up to the mess it has journey. anybody, least of all the belea- flourishing industry would not created for the pharma sector as a guered industry. have been possible without undue whole. The logical outcome of this Details on P 5 The sudden downfall of the statutory intervention. While the Continued on P 10 Two years on, medical council acts in duress BLACK SHEEP IN WHITE ROBES We have served notice PHARMA-DOCTOR Doctor CITY to the doctors and stern Dr KK Singh Patna action will be taken UNHOLY NEXUS Dr Mukesh Kumar Singh Patna against them if Dr Kamlakant Rakesh Patna Dr Jamshed Ahsan Kausar Begusarai their replies are SANJEEV K JHA Dr Kumar Suman Begusarai not satisfactory. PATNA Dr AK Jha Darbhanga We will intimate Dr BK Mishra Darbhanga state Health Following state Health Depart- Dr Narendra Mohan Sinha Hajipur Department about it. ment’s repeated reminders to the Dr Indramanu Singh Hajipur —Dr Narendra Prasad Bihar Council of Medical Regis- Dr Sitaram Singh Vaishali chairman of BCMR Dr Prabhat Ranjan Sultania Madhubani tration (BCMR) for its report in Dr Vinod Pandey Aurangabad a case where some Bihar doctors Dr Mahesh Lakhotia Samastipur filed by the then Karimnagar MP allegedly received cash incen- Dr Shahabuddin Sherghati Ponnam Prabhakar with the then tives from drug firms to prescribe Dr B K Mehra Bodhgaya chairperson of Lok Sabha stand- their medicines the council ap- Dr Sudhir Kumar Sheohar ing committee on chemicals and pears to have finally swung into Dr Shrikant Dubey Bettiah fertilisers late Gopinath Munde. action. Dr Sanjeev Ranjan Mishra Chhapra As per the complaint, some According to official sources, doctors had brought it to the the BCMR had issued show- ticing in different towns of the came to light when a complaint notice of Prabhakar a Mum- cause notices to 19 doctors prac- state. They said the matter first dated December 20, 2012 was Continued on P 11 Medicos in dock for helping Munna Bhais SANJEEV K JHA PATNA At least 25 students from various medical colleges of Bihar have been detained for fraud in medical entrance exam of 2012 and 2013 in Madhya Pradesh. However, going by the magnitude of the scam and involvement of the students from the state, these arrests seem to be a tip of the iceberg. The high-profile scam pertains to fraudulent admissions to MBBS course in Madhya Pradesh involving services of impersonators from across the country, including 25 to 75 from Bihar, who appeared for PMT (premedical test) in place of candidates. At least 17 people, including a former minister of MP, have been arrested so far. More than 1,000 students have been expelled from various medical colleges of the neighbouring state in this re- gard so far, sources said. PMT fraud: Warrant The Sources said against 35 students -p11 Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force is tracking more than 50 medical students from Bihar in connection with VYAPAM scam. Some doctors, too, are believed to be involved in the racket. “We have a list of 50 students who could be involved in the medical entrance exam scam of 2012 and 2013. The numbers could go up 3-5 times if we include the records from 2008,” claimed an investigator. The Madhya Pradesh Police wrote to the Pat- na Medical College & Hospital (PMCH) and Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital (SKMCH) at Muzaffarpur. In a letter to PMCH principal last week, the police named three of its students in the scam. They are Pankaj Kumar Gupta, son of Madan Gupta; Ramu Kumar, son of Virendra Ku- mar, and Mritunjay Kumar, son of Visheshwari Prasad. Seeking custody of the trio in connection with investigation, the police asked the college au- thorities to hand them over to an assistant sub- Continued on P 11 DRUG TODAY MEDICAL TIMES 2 CITY SCOPE 1st - 31st March 2015, New Delhi One hospital closed, another put on notice over death due to negligence BS.Rawat Solanki, complainant in Kamini, 34, who was hospital. @drugtodayonline.com the case. two-month pregnant, was On arrival, Jaipur Gold- Medical Superinten- under treatment of Dr en Hospital though de- NEW DELHI: A two-year- dent, Nursing Home Cell, Alka Goel, a self-styled gy- clared Kamini dead, but old medico-legal case of Dr AK Saini, in his action necologist in Rohini. On refused to conduct post- 167 security guards the death of Kamini Solan- taken report (ATR) in the May 13, 2012, she was ad- mortem on her body. ki, a housewife, took a case, informed that a no- mitted to Satyam Hospital While acting on the com- new turn with Directorate tice was issued after taking as she developed some plaint of causing death by go on a flash strike of Health Services (DHS), suo motu cognisance of serious complications. But criminal negligence from Delhi Government, issuing violation of Delhi Medi- as no qualified doctor was Solanki, DHS gave closure notice to Medical Superin- cal Council (DMC) rules available at the hospital order to Satyam Hospital leaving GTB in lurch tendent of Jaipur Golden by Jaipur Golden Hospital, for the entire day her hus- over medical negligence, Hospital for not conduct- Rohini by not conducting band rushed her to Jaipur Jaipur Golden Hospital Rohit.Kumar guards, who did not wish ing postmortem on the postmortem in a case of Golden Hospital. But she came under fire for intran- @drugtodayonline.com to be named, asked how a deceased wife of Dhiraj unnatural death. died on her way to the sigence on its part. person could survive if he Patient-care services of is denied his wages. Guru Teg Bahadur Hospi- Meanwhile, function- tal (GTB) were hit hard as ing of registration coun- Workshop on cancer Assistive tech for the disabled stressed 167 security guards went ter, OPDs and emergency on a lightning strike cit- suffered due to lack of se- pain management and DTMT.Network able to accomplish, by of disability. ing non-payment of sala- curity in and outside the @drugtodayonline.com providing enhancements Technology involves all ries. They staged a protest hospital. to, or changing meth- Technology enables a the communication tools demonstration almost en- Doctors and patients palliative care NEW DELHI: Prominent ods of interacting with, person with a disability and assistive devices ena- tire day bringing several had a harrowing time medical experts and bu- the technology needed to be independent and bling a person with a dis- health services of the hos- at the hospital with no DTMT.Network cancer and how to make reaucrats emphasised the to accomplish such task,” ability to be independent pital to a grinding halt. one to attend to them at @drugtodayonline.com their lives manageable need to provide assistive Jain further suggested the an active participant in and an active participant Blaming their contrac- OPDs and general wards. and comfortable while the technology to differently- multi-dimensional solu- the community in all areas of the commu- tors (Rajeshwar Sirohi and In case these guards con- NEW DELHI: With a view treatment is going on. abled people. They said the tions technology like Mas- nity. Bijendra Sirohi) for non- tinue with the strike, all to ease pain of cancer pa- Speaking on the occa- disabled do not have the sive Open Online courses Technology access is payment of their dues, a the departments except tients through better care sion, Special Health Sec- ability in particularly re- (MOOC), shift from Digital closely linked to acces- group of security guards the emergency wards are in hospitals, a workshop retary, Delhi Government, mote areas. If they are giv- Literacy to Digital Citi- ability growth rate has sibility and inclusion.

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