May 2010 Blog Posts (8)

yesterday our hospital celebrated 10th anniversary. As a part of it, an unique program was conducted which saw some of those patients who are cured of their disease interacting with their doctors and sharing their experiences with the audience. To choose few to give an idea,there was a middle age woman who had undergone cardiac transplantation and another 60 year old male with kidney transplant; a very young couple, the wife donated her kidney to her husband, and another person who had liver… Continue

Medical Council of India (MCI), an apex regulatory body, under the chairmanship of Dr.Ketan Desai has fallen in to such low levels due to rampant and rabid corruption, that the President of india issued an ordinance dissolving the council. As the drama unfolded with his arrest by the CBI while accepting 2 crore rupees bribe, i was rather puzzled over the fact that the govt has no authority to act on the council, such was the autonomy granted by our great authors of constitution and look at, how… Continue

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Success in Civil service examinations (in India), for many reasons, are considered pinnacle of achievement. therefore, has been dream of many. it is obviously tough, requires intellect, hardwork and all round personality. Historically it has been the domain of rich and well to do and well educated families. Of late, people from various spectrum of the society are showing impressive results in these exam, there by inspiring confidence among the less privileged to dream big. One such story is of… Continue

Census enumeration has been started in India. There was acrimonious shouting in the parliament over the need to include caste in the census enumeration process. Some wanted and others opposed. The fact is that caste profiling and subsequent discrimination is wide spread in India. In the 3 decades my consciousness of caste ( well, i belong to one of those backward classes, i see caste profiling , grouping increasing among the educated men and women, shamelessly. While we talk about colour… Continue

Yesterday, a poor, pregnant woman deserted by her husband, reaches emergency ward in a government run teaching hospital in Tirupati (with nearly 60 years of existence), delivers a child, none to care for the child dies. the mother too almost bled to death, no ambulance to shift her to a kilometer away maternity hospital !!.

This is the status of the most of the government run hospitals, basic equipment and tools are missing. in this example, it is a shame that, such a big hospital doesn't… Continue

Today newpapers carried two important news items, interestingly both are related to our governor Sri.Narasimhan !

Yesterday, he addressed govt officials in hyderabad training centre, while addressing them, he observed and told about how the public is loosing faith in the governance. i thought this reflected two things, one the reality and the second, that he is connected with the reality. Our governance, particularly in Andhrapradesh is all about rude, large scale… Continue