Molnupiravir. Another drug that has created a lot of hype or hope among public. But does it really deliver what it promises?
Written by
SP Kalantri
MGIMS: Father and Child
Beginning 1969โand through 2015โ fifteen MGIMS students have an alluring ancestry: their parents also graduated from MGIMS. Will having parents who spent their formative years in Sevagram inspire their children? Or will it completely freak them out? It can cut both ways. Being cut from the same Khadi could make life easy. And at times …
Pushpa Jiji and Om Bhaisaab: Wardha to Yelakeli
In 1958, Ram Mamaji was to get married in Barshi. Bai had already left for Barshi for her younger brother’s marriage with Asha, Ashok, JP and me- I was born a year ago. Pushpa Jiji and Om were left behind in the Bajaj Electricity home (near Durga talkies) in Wardha. Pushpa, just 12-year-old then, would …
Has NEET Affected Training of Medical Professionals?
The pressure of NEET PG has emptied classrooms. MBBS students feel that learning medicine while attending patients will not get them a postgraduate set. The process of training and learning for medical students has been deeply affected by NEET. How did NEET affect the training of medical students in India? It has decimated the joy …
Snakebite management
I delivered a keynote address on the occasion of the valedictory function of the 4th International Snakebite Awareness day organized by the Clinical Toxicology Unit and Poisons Information Center, Christian Medical College, Vellore. I spoke on “Challenges and prospects of snakebite management in India” in a virtual event conducted on September 18th, 2021.
Kasturba Hospital Sevagram
Kasturba Hospital. What, why, how, where and when? A PowerPoint presentation.
Have scientific bodies failed us?
The ICMR has increasingly drawn criticism from India’s doctors and scientists, who have questioned its drug recommendations & lack of transparency on data related to variants. Countrywide, doctors started writing these prescriptions, which artificially inflated the cost for Covid management,โ I said. โBig Pharma was laughing all the way to the bank and ultimately the …
Covid-19: A coronavirus-linked threat to children
Covid 19 and children. There is just a one in hundred chance that a child would test positive for Covid and would require a hospital admission.
Cost of Curing Covid
High hospital bills and black marketing of drugs and oxygen make the treatment of Covid-19 prohibitively expensive. Malini Aisola, co-convenor of the All India Drug Action Network, ET’s Kiran Somvanshi and I discuss the flaws in the existing setup and the steps to fix the financial burden of Covid-19.
Covid and Rural India
How do we deal with Covid-19 in Indian villages? We must empower primary health centres, where people are familiar with the doctors and healthcare workers; provide adequate training and resources; and weed out unnecessary drugs and investigations. Also, make vaccinations available close to people’s homes. I speak to Indiaspend.