Dr Ravi Wankhedkar

29/08/2022

29/08/2022

29/08/2022

इस संसार में सदा नहीं रहेंगे, ऐसा जिसको समझ में आ गया, उसी को इस संसार में रहने का ढंग आ गया।
जिसको समझ में आ गया कि ओस की बूंद है, अब गिरी, तब गिरी; भोर की तरैया है, अब डूबी, तब डूबी।
क्षणभर का खेल है।
फिर क्या चिंता है?
फिर किसको दुख देना है, किसको पीड़ा देनी है, किससे शत्रुता लेनी है? शत्रुता हम ले पाते हैं इसी पर कि जैसे सदा रहना है।

24/09/2019

Laws & policies should:
✅Ensure that every woman who is legally eligible has access to timely & safe care
✅Facilitate the provision of high-quality information & services
✅Meet all women's sexual & needs

24/09/2019

Out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenses drove 55 million Indians–more than the population of South Korea, Spain or Kenya–into poverty in 2017, and of these, 38 million (69%) were impoverished by expenditure on medicines alone.

14/09/2019

Lawyers Update Magzine

14/09/2019

Pneumonia is the single largest infectious cause of death in 👧👦 worldwide.

Pneumonia can be prevented by:
- Immunization 💉
- Adequate nutrition 🥦
- Reducing exposure to indoor air pollution 🔥🥘
- Improving housing conditions 🏡
- Avoiding smoking 🚬 near children

12/09/2019

I fall, I rise, I make mistakes, I live, I learn, I've been hurt but I'm alive. I'm human, I'm not perfect but I'm thankful.

31/08/2019

If you have the flu...
make sure to:
✅Cover your mouth & nose while coughing or sneezing 🤧
✅Wash your hands regularly 🙌
✅Drink plenty of water 💦
✅Stay home & rest 🛌
✅See a health professional 👩🔬
Never take antibiotics.
These don't work against cold or flu viruses!

30/08/2019

*WAR on NMC Continues..!*

The First legal battle won..!

Thanks to efforts of Dr. Vinay Aggarwal, Dr. Ravi Wankhedkar, Dr. Vedprakash Mishra sir under the guidance of National President Dr. Santanu Sen, HSG Dr. R. V. Asokan, National President Elect Dr. Rajan Sharma & Past National President Dr. A. Marthanda Pillai sir.
Let’s maintain the multi Pronged, multi faceted attack to fight out the draconian act. Public pressure by building awareness is the key to success.

Long Live IMA.

27/08/2019

Water is essential for life & good health: lack of clean water increases health risks. Water scarcity affects 1 in 3 people & is worsening with increased demand for 🥤🌱 🏘️🏙️🚽🚿🍚 due to:

🚨Climate change☀️
🚨Population growth 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦+👨‍👩‍👧
🚨Urbanization🌆

26/08/2019

Speaking At Global convention on Safe Sound. Xcellent Initiative by IMA NISS involving all stakeholders to sensitise on ill effects of noise pollution & how to reduce it

24/08/2019

IMA leaders meet & Workshop on NMC at Trivandrum

23/08/2019

*IMA FLOOD RELIEF OPERATION*
*IMA FOR PEOPLE*
Phase 2 in progress..!

Indian Medical Association medical aid is reaching out in depths of flooded areas. Phase 2 comprising of ex*****on of planned actions is in full swing.

It is the best part of this entire flood relief operation. Who is who of elites are pouring in to help & participate in the humanitarian operation. People are reaching out in the war room at Karad & spreading to the interiors. This has gone on spontaneous mode..!!

May it be our doctors from Mumbai or from Vidarbha... Maharashtra IMA doctors are visiting & serving in the areas.

Our IMA brothers from Karad, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, Lonand, Phaltan, Jaysingpur, Peth are going in the remote places & directing the teams from outside regions to the areas of need.

Few in need of indoor admission for treatment are being given all facilities in hospitals.

Help in the form of utensils, daily clothes, warm clothes or other necessities are being delivered to the hands in need directly through door to door delivery & our own doctors are doing it..!

There are no great limits to medical profession or humanity. Both run together in harmonious way and just prove again *"Mankind is our mission".*

22/08/2019

India has largest TB+MDR & XDR pts-NMC clause 32-creating CHP’s will aggravate the drug resistant problem

21/08/2019

*INDIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION*
*FLOOD RELIEF OPERATION*
*IMA FOR PEOPLE*

Team of IMA Maharashtra State reached the flood affected areas on 14th August 2019.

The team travelled to all three districts which have been ‘highly affected districts’ as per reports to understand how the state can manag to face an impending health crisis following flooding.

Team IMA established a control room in the city of Karad to coordinate the logistics of providing manpower and medicines to the entire region. Communicable diseases were to be contained by ensuring monitoring of people in the city areas as well as in the interiors. We had to ensure that those with non communicable diseases would be provided medicines & necessary care.

In the control room at Karad, doctors were appointed as coordinators for all teams that will dealt with public health, drugs distrubution, logistics, human resource management, documentation. They are given with responsibility of collecting data from local Police Stations, respective SP offices & DHO offices. This is to ensure the planning of resources.

In the second phase, medicines, medical assistance and clean water with other necessary things are being delivered to the affected homes as per need. The drugs and logistics management and human resource teams ensured that the number of doctors and volunteers pouring in from IMA branches are being directed to relevant locations. Stocks of medicines and consumables is maintained at Karad.

Patients identified in different areas are being given Doxycycline tablets if they had come in contact with flood waters. Patients visiting the remote OPDs are also being given Doxycycline with other necessary treatment.

Ensuring insulin, medicines for blood pressure is an important task. In the entire affected areas, patients in need of antihypertensive & oral hypoglycemic drugs are identified & are being provided with the necessary medicines with medical assistance. Everything is being done under the circumstances at various places.

Many places are being visited repeatedly by doctors to repeat the process & to identify people who are returning homes after flood is receding.

IMA doctors are playing very important & significant role in the measures to provide healthcare & to prevent outbreaks. This is the critical role of all local IMA branches making IMA Maharashtra State operation a humanitarian success. Our doctors are displaying determination, spirit of humanity & unity in delivering the healthcare to the needy people.

Meetings & visits at Karad, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, Jaysingpur, Peth, Islampur & many surrounding interior areas has ensured this work on fast track. Kolhapur doctors are functioning in the town & remote areas from day one. They have stalked the medicines, other help in Kolhapur IMA house & is being distributed all over through various channels. IMA office in Kolhapur has distributed work through many teams & is going on strong in all directions in the district. Boats were used regularly for this purpose in the initial phase.

Satara, Sangli, Karad, Phaltan, Nira Lonand doctors are showing unique resolve. Boats were being used in these areas too. Sangli IMA house was under water upto 7-8 feets. Still all doctors stood by people during crisis.

Jaysingpur IMA doctors were more than perfect in their services. 27 teams, 5 emergency back up teams with team leaders with central war room showcased the best disaster healthcare management. They did not stop here. The emergency medicines, drinking water & other things were brought to Kolhapur airport by flight. Jaysingpur IMA arranged helicopter to airlift the material from Kolhapur airport. This every emergency medical assistance was delivered to remote places like Kurundwad through boats against odd weather conditions. This was a masterpiece example of dedication, humanity & professionalism.

On 20th August 2019, we again visited all branches & remote areas. Through IMA Maharashtra State, we delivered 2000 kits of things of daily needs to affected remote areas including clothes, sarees, blankets, bedsheets & other things.

IMA also distributed medicines, disposables to people. We sincerely thank MLC Hon. Shri. Jagannath Shinde, Shri. Vijay Patil & Shri. Sagar Patil & Chemists Association for helping us with required medicines.

*Overall the IMA Maharashtra State Flood Relief Operation is being executed in organized way & we look forward to deliver our best to all needy people in the flood affected areas & we stand with our moto; "IMA is FOR PEOPLE".*

21/08/2019

The Myth of Government spending on medical education

A lie or half truth oft repeated from high pulpits sufficient number of times becomes accepted as hard fact. The frequent statement that Government of India spends crores in making a doctor has been fed ad nauseum by the politicians and gleefully propagated by the civil society and the press to the extent that it is firmly entrenched in public mind. This is the reason oft given to justify statements like “doctors should serve the nation”, “Doctors should do compulsory rural service” and “Doctors should not be permitted to go abroad to work”. No one has paused to ask what is the basis of this statement so oft repeated that the honourable Supreme Court has also quoted it as a fact which does not need any proof.

I have tried to find the cost to the company (Government) for producing a doctor (his own effort not withstanding). There are no answers. If Government were spending 1 crore on each doctor produced in a Government medical college obviously it is spending about 35000 crore of the 50000 total budget for healthcare purely on this. I have also been told that Government spends huge amounts even if a doctor graduates from private medical college after paying 80% of his parental savings and hence even those graduating from private medical colleges should do rural service. Obviously then the entire budget for healthcare is being spent by the Government on training doctors. The amount spent on preventive medicine, primary healthcare, and the treatment of the hordes of patients in tertiary Government hospitals across India comes free of cost from the CSR budget of Reliance and Adanis. Who produced this fantastic data and on what basis needs to be found urgently because the mind is innovative, ingenious, inventive and is probably also the genesis of the elusive “vikas” too.

Fact is that except for Departments of Anatomy and Physiology the remaining subjects taught in medical colleges across the country are related to patient care and medical education is only a byproduct. The budget given to Government hospitals is grossly inadequate for the patient care so medical students both undergraduate and postgraduate are used a unpaid labour to take care of patient load. Not only is it unfair to the students but also to the general public who is under the impression that the treatment in Government hospital is being provided by a qualified doctor or a qualified specialist. During the “training” the undergraduate and specially each of the postgraduate students saves the Government salary of atleast two more doctors who would have to be employed to take care of the patient load if the teaching program was not in place.

I have nothing against rural service and infact I opted to work in a village immediately after my graduation. However looking back on those days I shudder to think of the bravado we had and the errors we made. Half baked doctors unloaded on rural population may be politically OK but is not morally or medically correct. Many doctors, including myself, after retirement would not mind working in rural areas for limited emoluments as service to the nation. They will have the experience to tackle the health issues clinically without investigations based solely on experience. Also the idea of forcing specialists and superspecialists to do rural service is an idea which is mindless, imprudent, ill considered, reckless and fool hardy. What pray will a new DM Cardiology do in a Primary Health Centre except tagging along in the motor cavalcade of senior politicians as their personal cardiologist. The MD radiology freshly passed would be better off and the nation better served by exposing him to Interventional procedures, MRI and other newer imaging modalities rather than twiddling his thumbs in the Civil Hospital with no working ultrasound machine. The 3-4 years immediately post MD/MS/MCh/DM for all specialists are very crucial for them to refine and enhance their skills. It is a national human resource which will be sacrificed at the altar of political expediency.

The civil society stalwarts, the honourable judiciary & Ministry of Health and Family welfare Kindly provide me the concrete data on how much does it costs the Government to produce one doctor in a Government & Private medical college and share with me the methodology of such calculation. Do not extrapolate what the private medical College owning Member Parliaments have fed you because the fee in profit making colleges in China, Russia, Phillipines and so many other countries where our students go to be trained is less than 20 lacs for the entire course of MBBS. So If the Government is spending 1 crore to produce one MBBS doctor it is a very inefficient model which should immediately be wrapped up and replaced.

Dr Neeraj Nagpal
Convenor,Medicos Legal Action Group, Managing Director MLAG Indemnity,
Ex President IMA Chandigarh
Director Hope Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Clinic,
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