Podiatrists from Scotland’s Glasgow Caledonian University are partnering with Calicut’s Institute of Palliative Medicine, a World Health Organisation (WHO) collaborating centre in the area of palliative care and long term care, and Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandum to train the country’s physicians in managing the complications caused by the condition, which leads to the amputation of a limb every 30 seconds around the world.

Patient safety is elemental to Hippocratic oath and fundamental to quality in healthcare. Yet, it is unfortunate that occasionally hospitals themselves turn into an inferno claiming many lives.   As per the rules laid down by …

…says Munesh Makhija, CTO, GE Healthcare India. He discusses GE’s strategy on making healthcare more accessible; and the parameters on which it measures itself.

Oxygen is one of the highest consumed components in hospitals. To make the process of procuring oxygen cylinders not just convenient but also cost effective, Helix Corporation India is in the process of setting up an oxygen concentrator plant that would help hospitals and other medical suppliers generate in-house oxygen.

Kolkata being the biggest city and the only metro in the eastern region is supposed to be the highest point of summation for all regional needs, including healthcare. Despite having ‘good’ private healthcare infrastructure (including some of the biggest brands) the city is ‘leaking’ regional patients to the other metros.