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Topic: Nurses

‘Fighting in the frontline without fear’ — Nurses discuss Covid situation with Rahul Gandhi

In a video interaction with four Indian-origin nurses, Rahul Gandhi discusses safety of healthcare workers, and how other countries are dealing with the pandemic.

Thank-you to nurses, hacktivist Elliot Anderson thanks govt & Priyanka Chopra’s day out

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Sick doctors, shut hospitals, no guidelines — a Wockhardt doctor on India’s Covid response

Authorities must resist shutting down hospitals with infected staff because each bed and healthcare worker is an essential resource in India’s battle against the pandemic.

To meet world average, India must add at least 10 lakh doctors to healthcare force

Doctors can’t be added to fight the pandemic overnight. So each year, India must add 30,000 medical seats. Casual attitude won’t do anymore.

Caring or cleaning? Distinction between nursing and domestic work is fuzzy

In Politics of Precarity, Panchali Ray writes how the nursing profession has struggled to be recognised as trained labour and not as domestic work.

Clapping is good, but Indian medical staff fighting Covid-19 need real incentives

If India gives special incentives to healthcare workers like Malaysia and China, it can hasten human resource mobilisation in the fight against Covid-19.

Robot ‘Baxter’ could solve shortage of qualified nurses across the world

Students and professors at Imperial College London are developing a robot to assist patients after looking at nursing shortage statistics paired with aging population demographics.

As India struggles with doctor shortage, govt gives a push to nurse-led clinics

If changes come through, a nurse practitioner may be allowed to prescribe medicines, conduct invasive procedures under supervision of senior doctors.

With haphazard examinations for years, Haryana’s nursing diploma students left without degrees

State conducted examinations of 2011, ‘12, ‘13 and ‘14 batches in May 2018; other batches to wait.

Crippled by shortage of doctors, government wants qualified nurses to prescribe drugs

The idea is to address the lack of medical attention arising from the shortage of doctors, especially in rural areas.

On Camera

Chinese memes, videos & commentaries say Modi overshadowed other leaders at SCO

On Douyin, many videos highlighted how Modi was all smiles during his China visit. Others focused on his handholding with Putin and Trump’s supposed irritation.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.