In March this year, an IAS officer in Jharkhand gave birth to her baby at a government hospital. That this made front page news nationally and that too valorised, is not surprising. Because in India, it is an unusual act. Almost a brave one

With a celebrity, one wonders whether the attention is on the message or the person. The surrounding spectacle drowns out the message. Even worse, the medium becomes the message. And illness a metaphor for herocentric formula films

India has one of the largest railway networks, with a high incidence of railway-related accidents and fatality rate of 150/million passengers per year. We evaluated the pre-hospitalization period, pattern of injury and outcome of train accident victims in a metropolitan city.

Why does a city of this size, resources and claim to modernity not have a developed, centralised system that co-ordinates from a nodal point where updated information on the availability.

दुनियाभर में कोरोनावायरस (Coronavirus) का कहर बढ़ता ही जा रहा है. भारत में भी यह बीमारी तेजी से फैल रही है. इस वैश्विक महामारी से निपटने के लिए NDTV ने एक खास कार्यक्रम आयोजित किया, जिसका नाम 'टेलीथॉन' है. इस कार्यक्रम का मुख्य लक्ष्य भूख के सताए बेघरों के लिए राशि जुटाने का था. इस कार्यक्रम में जसलोक अस्पताल के डॉ संजय नागराल ने कहा कि मजदूरों को स्वास्थ्य सुविधा उपलब्ध करवा पाना बड़ी चुनौती है.

Medical education in India has been beset so far by scandal. Can the new National Medical Commission reform education and regulation to enable better healthcare?

Violence against doctors is a symptom and not the disease. Structural and policy changes in India’s hospitals, and not increased security, may help in controlling it

Dr. Sanjay Nagral ‐ A surgeon cum novelist whose career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction.