Editors Emulsion 17th Nov 15
A warm welcome to our enthusisatic and encouraging readers to the current edition of our fortnightly newsletter,The PRESCRIPTION! Your valuable suggestions and contributions mailed to me frequently keep adding to the enhancement of our newsletter. Thank you for being aware; for being active.
Amidst festivities and the onset of the winter season, there have been various viral infections especially respiratory like seasonal, Swine Flu or H1N1 influenza that has gripped India. The influenza virus mutates extremely fast and is highly infectious. High-risk patients include pregnant women, infants, elderly patients and immunocompromised patients. Therefore Respiratory hygiene is a must. Doctors recommend that, maintaining a distance of at least 3 feet from a person who is coughing and sneezing can arrest spreading of infectious diseases.
It’s not good news that India has ranked 103rd in the survey of healthiest nations with an overall score of 22.17%. This highlights the fact that till today a large part of the Indian population has little or no access to quality healthcare at affordable prices. India is embarking on an ambitious target of achieving Universal Health Coverage for all during the 12th five year plan period (2012-2017). For this, India needs a strong, efficient, well-run health system with channelized financing health services; access to essential medicines and technologies; sufficient capacity of well-trained, motivated health workers to overcome the impediments along the road of UHC thus safeguarding availability, accessibility, affordability and quality of comprehensive healthcare to all.
Diabetes has increasingly become a lifestyle-related disease as it afflicts young and old. Under our National Injections section know about poor food habits that are the culprits in increasing number of diabetic patients. Also get to know on Tamil Nadu Medical Council’s new app against quack doctors, winter asthma and its cure remedies from this section. Gather information on centralized projects like the Health ministry trying to upgrade manpower and drug testing infrastructure across our country, IPC becoming WHO collaborating centre for Safety of Medicines and Vaccines in SE Asia and many more under our Drug Laws and Policies Section. Read about battery free pacemakers for heart and long term risk factors of antacid consumption. Fetch information on newly approved drugs by CDSCO, Drug Alerts , scientifically validated anti-diabetes herbal drug, named BGR-3 and biodegradable implants from the Drug Dopes section. Our frequently Asked Questons feature few vital cardiac related terms like blood pressure, hypertension, arrhythmia, bradycardia and tachycardia. Unwind after last week’s festivities with our laughter dose and do remember to mark your calendar for the listed upcoming events.
Stay protected. Enjoy reading!