STILL A HUGE GAP IN HEALTHCARE ACCESS IN INDIA : PRESIDENT
INDIAN SCIENTISTS MAKE A NEW GEL FOR WOUND HEALING APPLICATION
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STILL A HUGE GAP IN HEALTHCARE ACCESS IN INDIA : PRESIDENT
The President of India , Mr Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone of a Super Specialty Hospital of BRS Health & Research Institute at Udupi , Karnataka on June 18 , 2017 . Speaking on the occasion , the President said that while advances in modern medicine and investment in health infrastructure have made many diseases such as cholera , small pox , plague , tuberculosis etc . curable and eradicated others , yet there remains a huge gap in our country in terms of access to medicine and health care .
“ This brings us to the larger and more serious question of the skewed nature of health care in India – both in terms of infrastructure and personnel . Against the international norm of one doctor per thousand population , we have one doctor for
1700 people in our country . The ratio thus stands at 0.7:1000 . The situation is all the more alarming in the vast hinterland of rural India ,” said the President .
INDIAN SCIENTISTS MAKE A NEW GEL FOR WOUND HEALING APPLICATION
Indian scientists have come up with a new combination of polymers that can be used as a hydrogel to make the process of wound healing faster .
The main advantage of the new hydrogel is that mixing of the two polymers causes rapid gelation at the body temperature of 37 degree Celsius itself and at the same time does not generate much heat . Generation of heat during the gelling process can lead to tissue death in the area surrounding the injection site . This will be avoided .
Dr Suresh Kumar Jewrajka of CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute ( CSMCRI ) at Bhavnagar , Gujarat ,
68 BioVoiceNews | July 2017