April - June 2012 Vol 9 Issue 2
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Fire in a hospital
On December 9, 2011, in a shocking and gruesome incident, perhaps the worst of its kind in India, a massive fire broke out at the AMRI Hospitals, a large private speciality institution in Kolkata and consumed 93 lives. Hapless patients in wards and intensive care were suffocated and charred to death as local fire containment measures were nonexistent and fire fighters could not enter the narrow lane leading to the hospital .There was a huge media outcry over the incident and finger pointing by local politicians……
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Putting patients first: draft guidelines for compensation for research-related injury in clinical trials in India
With the recent highlighting of ethical issues in several clinical trials, and the increase in awareness among parliamentarians, there has been some concern about the conduct of trials in India. The areas of concern include ensuring that consent is truly informed, and monitoring participant safety, the occurrence of deaths and the payment of compensation. On November 18, 2011, the draft of the Drugs and Cosmetics (3rd Amendment) rule, 2011 was published in the Gazette of India, with a plan for implementation 45 days after publication. In addition, the draft guidelines for compensation were posted for comment by the Indian Council of Medical Research. These guidelines state that research participants who suffer an injury as a result of participation in research are entitled to compensation for impairment or disability……
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Psychiatric advance directives: potential challenges in India
Advance directives are a tool to promote the principles of participation and non-discrimination, and enhance mutual acceptability of treatment decisions as implicitly promoted in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. In India, we are poised to enact different legislations to determine the care and treatment of persons with mental illness. The issue of advance directives is particularly topical since both the proposed legislations that will affect care provision for persons with mental illnesses - the Mental Health Care Act and the Rights of People with Disability Act - are potentially concerned with the concept of the advance directive……
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