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Honoured and humbled to have got the Ramnath Goenka #RNG award for Excellence in Journalism. Big thanks to my mentors, bosses, family& friends and above all the Divine power. @rashtrapatibhvn @IndianExpress @RamnathGoenka
The government on Saturday notified a 30% cap on trade margins for 137 widely used anti-cancer drugs, with revised prices set to take effect from November 9.
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Govt may notify trade margin caps on around 142 cancer drugs today.
@nppa_india @DeptPharma @MoHFW_INDIA
Govt may notify trade margin caps on around 142 cancer drugs today.
@nppa_india @DeptPharma @MoHFW_INDIA
Teena Thacker retweeted
Same issues arose with the hip implant case and we still have not addressed it as a country. The Health Ministry is paralyzed on major policy issues pertaining to regulation of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.
June 19. Sri Lanka's regulator pulls three India-made heart stent models from every hospital.
October 5. India's cabinet secretariat asks its own health ministry to look into it.
Sri Lanka's NMRA cited improper positioning, dislodgement, acute thrombosis and stents that failed to expand. The models are made by Meril Life Sciences. India moved after Rajya Sabha MP Dr Ajeet Gopchade wrote in on September 29, citing media reports from Colombo.
Everyone reads this as an export quality scare. That misses the real story.
The alarm came from the importing country. India learned about a possible problem with its own device from a neighbour's circular, then from a newspaper, then from an MP's letter.
Now look at where this goes. The MP's ask was traceability: which patients got which stent, and who follows up. A recall only works if you can find the people already carrying the device.
Sri Lanka can pull stock off a shelf. Nobody can pull a stent out of an artery.
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Thank you very much respected teena Thacker for supporting our medical fraternity.. serving people of India..god bless you
Sri Lanka flags safety concerns involving 3 models of India-made, drug-eluting coronary stents that were reportedly withdrawn following quality issues.
The cabinet secretariat has now asked @MoHFW_INDIA to take action on concerns after @Drajeetgopchade sought intervention.
Teena Thacker retweeted
A welcome step towards transparency in healthcare billing.
But transparency is not affordability, price is not quality, and issuing directives is not implementation.
Patients need more than displayed rates. They deserve assured quality, appropriate care, itemised billing, effective grievance redressal and protection against unaffordable expenditure.
The Clinical Establishments Act is not uniformly applicable across India. State-level enforcement remains crucial.
From a UHC perspective, the real test is whether this measure improves financial protection under SDG 3.8.2 and reduces out-of-pocket expenditure.
A useful administrative reform, certainly. But displaying the price of healthcare is not the same as ensuring access to healthcare.
Let transparency be a step towards systemic reform, not mistaken for its achievement.
#UHC #PatientRights #HealthcareQuality #FinancialProtection – at Delhi, India
In a push to make healthcare billing more transparent, the Centre has asked states and union territories to ensure that hospitals and other clinical establishments prominently display the rates they charge for services and facilities.
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In a push to make healthcare billing more transparent, the Centre has asked states and union territories to ensure that hospitals and other clinical establishments prominently display the rates they charge for services and facilities.
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Teena Thacker retweeted
Fortis Healthcare reviews Delhi HC ruling in Daiichi Sankyo case, may approach Supreme Court
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I was in Gurgaon the last two days. Pata nahin kaise rehte hain log vahan. Pathetic collapse of governance and it’s always been like this.
This is us getting the kids from a bus stuck at Subhash chowk- no police to help. Busy hitting people or doing VIP duty ? @DC_Gurugram
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Uttarakhand has built a strong identity as a tourism capital. The next ambition is to turn that strength into broader economic growth.
Pushkar Singh Dhami, Chief Minister, Uttarakhand, outlined the state’s vision in his address on “Uttarakhand’s Next Leap: From Tourism Capital to an Economic Powerhouse” at #ETWLF.
@pushkardhami
#ETWorldLeadersForum
@specfinancegfty @Visa_IND @Suzlon @casagrandhomes @EconomicTimes
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Hans Christian Dall Nygård, head – private equity at SPEC Finance takes the stage at #ETWorldLeadersForum.
#ETWLF
@ETFrontRow
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Issued in public interest: for all those coming to Gurugram today and / or leaving, kindly use a boat. Thanks to the brilliance of the administration which never anticipates the monsoon, we are happily flooded. Thank you @NayabSainiBJP and @DC_Gurugram for your thoughtfulness.
India’s institutions are failing its people. Students demanding accountability for the #NEET paper leak were met with lathi charge. In Kota, mothers who went in for childbirth came out with kidney failure. Education & healthcare are both crumbling. #NEETLeak #KotaMaternalDeaths
Booked a courier via @Uber_Support to deliver a parcel. Driver confirmed pickup but it was never delivered. Recipient confirms nothing arrived. Delivery partner denies it, in-app support is useless. Need this traced/refunded ASAP. @Uber_India @Uber
Women who suffered kidney damage allegedly after undergoing C-sec at Kota’s New Medical College have submitted a memorandum to the President, demanding treatment & compensation or permission to end their lives thru euthanasia. @rashtrapatibhvn share.google/tYQoWVAUT8neCuA…
Some respite for these families as Lok Sabha Speaker @ombirlakota handed over cheques of Rs 5 lakh each to the bereaved families of five women who had died of complications after cesarean deliveries in Kota hospitals in May.
The Kota medical disaster has pushed poor families to the brink. As they struggle with spiralling medical expenses the families have sought govt support for kidney transplants.
#PublicHealth #Rajasthan #MaternalHealth #DrugSafety #Accountability
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Teena Thacker retweeted
Common man should be happy to know that the government is ensuring that quality medicines reach hospitals and consumers. It was observed that some drugmakers suppressed information about the cancellation of their manufacturing licences to secure supply orders from the government and other Healthcare agencies.
Timely disclosure of license cancellations and suspension is critical to prevent misuse and to strengthen the monitoring mechanism between the centre and states.
Now all states shall furnish monthly NSQ data in the prescribed format within the stipulated timeline and share the data with the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation ( @CDSCO_INDIA_INF ).
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@JPNadda
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