Joys of being a Pediatrician 1. So a mom identified me behind the mask and tells her 7 yr old son, "There is the chap who treated you when you were a baby!" Truly made my day☺

“Instead of being autonomous professionals focused solely on patient health, doctors are increasingly becoming employees judged on financial targets.” @Nivarana4India @VasuMicroCaucus @RemaNagarajan https://t.co/PD8UYRh1RJ

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Health for People, Not for Profit! JSA's National Health Rights Convention, December 11-12, 2025, Jawahar Bhawan, New Delhi. Please join us. @gsaipsn @napmindia @rozi_roti @PHMglobal @aidwacec @IndiaNfiw

Abbott, a pharma company and also manufacturer of baby food, is upgrading 300 primary health centres, training staff India is so poor it needs pharma money to upgrade PHCs? Govt tells doctors not to take commission from pharma but itself takes money? https://t.co/tRcW4b5YGt

Infant Milk Substitutes Act 1992 or IMS Act prohibits baby food companies from funding training of health workers So govt has kindly facilitated training of staff in PHCs by Abbott, a manufacturer of baby food, thus helping break the law? @Moveribfan https://t.co/tRcW4b5YGt

It’s amazing to see young Indians so inspired by Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York. But while we celebrate progressive victories abroad, let’s not miss what’s happening at home. Rahul Gandhi just presented how 25 lakh votes disappeared in Haryana. Our own democracy, our own

https://t.co/o9h1KmyW3E The audacity to attack a senior advocate and Human rights activist in full public view! Can this happen if the state machinery is not complicit??!! @amnesty @PUCLindia

It also doesn’t mean we can wash off hands by having a vaccine for all waterborne illnesses- not care about providing clean water to all - especially majority- who cannot afford to buy water or install RO systems. Then it becomes business over constitutional right to (good) life!

4.6 cr cases + 89,300 deaths estimated from typhoid Poor diagnosis & treatment leading to rising drug resistance Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh have started vaccinating against typhoid using vaccines made in India Public health docs ask why India doesn't https://t.co/iEAG89SpTz

This should be thought of much before vaccines for varicella, influenza and hepatitis A for all , in India , by UIP

@WHOSEARO @gavi @iapindia @MoHFW_INDIA

With rising number of typhoid cases and increasing anti microbial resistance, introducing typhoid vaccine in the National Immunisation Schedule is indeed a much needed step. #vaccines #HealthEquity

#Awareness programme and exhibition on the importance of taking folic acid (Vitamin B9) before and during pregnancy to prevent problems in the baby’s spine and #brain. Hosted by Dept of #NeurologicalSciences and Spinal Dysraphism Clinic, on occasion of #SpinaBifida and

Between thoughts and words: Periya (senior) Doctor

"Nobody expects a young doctor to arrive knowing how to plaster/suture. So why expect that doctors are born knowing how to have sensitive and difficult conversations about important matters with patients--sometimes sensitive or private matters, and about life and death?"

This is such heart warming news! Having seen patients with CF and knowing that the treatment available is so ridiculously expensive and hence inaccessible, this brings hope… I wish that the price drops even further in the near future..

https://t.co/RmKpOAT2G2 Rotavac vaccine, rolled out in 2016, shows 54% real-world effectiveness against severe rotavirus diarrhea in kids under 5. Reduced rotavirus positivity by >50% in infants/toddlers, with indirect benefits for older children.

'#MedicalEducation and #Clinical Practice: Bridging the Gap' - International Medical Education #Conference by Dept of Medical Education to be held on 9-11 Feb 2026 @ CMC Vellore Bagayam Campus. Link to website: https://t.co/wHWZ9wECeS

Every journalist irrespective of gender should raise his/her voice against the way in which female journalists were kept away from Taliban press conference. Institutionalised gender discrimination is unacceptable on Indian soil: can’t hide behind the cloak of Vienna Convention on

Union Minister of State @DrJitendraSingh virtually inaugurated the 10th Annual "Cell and Gene Therapy" Symposium organised by the Centre for Stem Cell Research (CSCR), supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India at the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore The