'hospitals converting from public to private ownership status tended to make higher profits than public hospitals that do not convert, primarily through the selective intake of patients and reductions to staff numbers. .. corresponded with worse health outcomes for patients.''

The 3 HP regimen has better completion rates, lower hepatotoxicity than 6H/9H for LTBI, but systemic drug reactions can occur with low BMI as a risk.I argue for a relook at the uniform 900 mg INH dose in populations with undernutrition, need for pyridoxine, & to document AEs.

In just the last 10 days, 8 sanitation workers have died cleaning sewer/septic tanks. We have laws which ban this work but our caste system is far stronger. Those who die in large numbers cleaning our cities, towns and villages are mostly Dalits (Hindus and Muslims).

Kidney disease- third fastest growing cause of death globally
850 million people are affected, and treating them is draining public-health coffers
Call to include kidney disease in WHO list of priority NCDs
nature.com/articles/d4158….

..although we doctors present ourselves as healers of “the wounds of humanity”, we often instead serve as “an integral part of colonisation, of domination, of exploitation'

Same goes for public health professionals

Great piece in The Lancet

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

This graph from nature.com/articles/s4158… shows how India is way ahead of others in under-reporting Covid deaths. The red dots show the number of deaths reported by the BJP govt & the blue dots show the true number of estimated deaths.

'In each subsequent year, the revenue generated by UIDAI from updation and correction fees has been rising. This suggests that these are not merely teething problems that will eventually go away.' 1/n

A study of 4,800 adults aged 40-80 looked at an alternative - measuring body fat percentage. Just 38% of the men and 41% of the women had a BMI above 30 - but when their body fat percentage was calculated using scans, 71% and 64% were found to be obese. bbc.com/news/health-69…

“The Israeli state has systematically demonstrated a complete disregard for the imperfect system that has long enabled me to deliver medical care to both civilians and combatants in conflict – that of international humanitarian law, AKA the rules of war.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Hospital surgical teams with more women improve patient recovery, Julie Hallet et al study finds: Researchers say that a critical mass of female anaesthesiologists and surgeons in operative teams can reduce postoperative complications theguardian.com/world/article/… via Andrew Gregory

Rema Nagarajan health workers r given 'targets',poor females petty cash and here we get 'cows' for sterlization . Poor have never been treated with dignity in India. One has to visit a govt. hospital to see it. I call these 'slaughter houses', despite my respect for Docs there.Vivek Singh

भास्कर ने बांग्लादेश में ढूंढ़े जयपुर में ट्रांसप्लांट कराने वाले 30 डोनर-रिसीवर, कोई रिश्तेदार नहीं, 32 लाख में बिकी एक किडनी, डोनर को 2 लाख दिए। किडनी कांड पर बांग्लादेश से भास्कर का सबसे बड़ा खुलासा, ढाका से लाइव रिपोर्ट-

'India's Public spending on #health has 🔼, due to STATES & not Centre.
GOI has 🔽 National Health Mission (NHM) budget by avg 5.5% in real terms between 2019-24.
& 🔼spending of Govt. funded #health insurance schemes ( #AyushmanBharat PMJAY scheme). '
✍️ by Health Economist Dr.

Is this true? That tubectomy is the best method of birth control with least complications?
Then why don't well-off women opt for it?
Why is it mostly done to poor women?

Rema Nagarajan much higher than non-surgical methods like pills (5.1 per cent), injectables (0.6 per cent), condoms (9.5 per cent), IUDs (2.1 per cent) or even male sterilisation (0.3 per cent).' Source: orfonline.org/research/burde…