Healthcare in India turns 5
Happy New Year It is a matter of intense pride that this blog has turned 5 this January. I started this blog with the intention of covering the healthcare…
How the Indian education system is creating a nation of diabetics ?
Well congratulations ‘acche din’ have come to diabetes in India. We have successfully crossed 60 Million diabetics and now stand at 67 million. By 2030 we would reach 100 million diabetics.
Now the rate of growth of diabetes in India has grown tremendously. According to a report by the ‘Indus Health Plus’, in Bangalore for example, there has been an increase of 7 % diabetes cases among females and 9% increase in males as compared to last two years. It is alarming that around 25 % of IT / BPO professionals are under threat of diabetes because of stress and hypertension.
Do we need 2 different healthcare programs to effectively cover India ?
Healthcare in India has been a mixed bag. There is a rich history with surgeons like Sushruta and physicians like Charaka who healed many in the ancient history. Then there was the creation and growth of Ayurveda who many still claim has answers to most of the incurable diseases. As a matter of fact recent article in Asian age talked about how an college is claiming that they might have the cure for the disease.
Why India needs the Rice Bucket Challenge ?
A lot has been written about the Indian “Rice Bucket Challenge”
Started by Journalist Manju Kalanidhi, the challenge involves you donating a Kilo of Rice to a needy person. Then just like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, you have to nominate someone else for it.
Now so far in Hyderabad itself, many people have taken on this challenge. A college in Kaminnagar actually had the highest donations as more than 2000 students donated almost 2000 kgs of rice. Many local Hyderabad celebrities have joined the challenge and there were plans to rope in Satya Nadella and Jwala Gutta. The challenge had almost 64,000 people talking about it on Facebook.
Now based on this people in Kolkatta are using the Rice Bucket Challenge to donate food for the people of Kashmir affected by the floods. (more…)
Why India needs something like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to drive health awareness ?
(Source : You Tube)
I call it the “Gangnam Style” of healthcare.
Whether on Facebook or on You Tube the one phenomenon you cant get away from is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
ALS or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—also referred to as motor neurone disease (MND), Charcot disease, and, in the United States, Lou Gehrig‘s disease—is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It is characterised by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to muscle atrophy, difficulty in speaking (dysarthria), swallowing (dysphagia), and breathing (dyspnea). ALS is the most common of the five motor neuron diseases. (Source Wikipedia)