Reeta Devi

The limitations of humanising healthcare

Youngson and Blennerhassett discuss the humanisation of healthcare.1 New technologies and equipment are rapidly changing patient care. Clinical methods for diagnosis are being replaced by scans and laboratory tests. Thus, the need for detailed questions about health problems is also declining. Doctors, paramedics, and nurses are …

Time to rethink the syndromic approach to sexually transmitted infections

The report showing increasing antimicrobial resistance of gonorrhoea is alarming.1 The World Health Organization should think about whether its guidelines on treating sexually transmitted infections and reproductive …

Education and support for self care management in chronic illnesses in India

We agree with Iongh that patients with chronic illnesses should be supported to take care of themselves.1 Realising the need for patient care in the home setting, Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, India, has started a certificate …

Financing for health in India

Financing is a crucial determinant of providing primary healthcare.1 Stenberg and colleagues2 suggested that low income countries need to spend

Education on hygiene and sanitation is the need of the hour in India

54 (Rs3240; £32; €39) per capita for basic healthcare services, whereas the average actual per capita health expenditure in these countries is only

Clinical audit: more of a dream than a reality in India.

27. World Health Statistics 2007 3 reported

Awareness and health seeking behaviour of rural adolescent school girls on menstrual and reproductive health problems.

29 per capita as public health spending by India, which is ranked 184 …

Knowledge and attitude towards tuberculosis in a slum community of Delhi

Even after 66 years of independence, 60% of the rural population of India has no toilet facilities, although the figure is less than 9% in urban India.1 2 India launched the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan national sanitation programme in 1986 with the aim of providing subsidies for building latrines. Since 2001, the Indian government has spent Rs15 000 crore (£1455m; €1830m;

Effectiveness of self-learning module on the knowledge and practices regarding foot care among type II diabetes patients in East Delhi, India

2445m) to build 93.5 …

Positive thinking and health status among adults in a tertiary care hospital of Delhi, India -

Clinical audit is used routinely to assess quality of care in developed countries, and we agree with Smith’s idea of creating a national database of clinical audit results in such countries.1 The situation in resource limited countries like India is different, however—we are still …