Category: Health and Wellness

Delhi is finding the current lockdown extremely perplexing. There are numerous roads that have been closed using chained and locked iron barriers. These include Chirag Delhi to Sheikh Sarai Road, S Block Panchsheel Park Road, several roads in Patel Nagar, Nilothi to Hastsal Road and others. They have also setup barriers across the city. With numerous emergency calls due to the sheer magnitude of emergencies due to government failure in mananging COVID-19, these obstructions and diversions have apparently been responsible for multiple delays and possible deaths. One citizen had commented, “Is the police trying to end COVID-19 by confusing the ... Read more

On March 17, 2021 WHO has confirmed that HCQ has no impact on COVID-19 disease. However, AIIMS/ ICMR-COVID-19 National Task Force Guidelines released on April 22, 2021 have painted a different picture. The guidelines recommend use of HCQ or Invermectin for moderate cases. It is contrary to WHO recommendations. Many experts have urged the government to amend the same.   

In the press briefing by the White House COVID-19 response team, the following was shared on Indian COVID-19 situation: “I want to turn to the global situation and briefly address the recent COVID-19 surge in India. First of all, we stand with the country of India during this very trying and tragic surge. Over the weekend, we shared that we are working to deploy resources and supplies, including therapeutics, rapid testing kits, ventilators, PPE, and raw materials that are needed to manufacture vaccines in India. And CDC, which has a long history of working with and in India on public ... Read more

After an endless wait, millions of infections, crash of healthcare system and uncountable deaths (much more than the official estimates), India finally opened vaccination for 18-45. However, like most things done by Modi government, it was an utter failure. The Youth that were trying to use the application got frustrated and took their anger out on the social media. According to the reports, SMSes valid for 3 minutes come not before 12-15 minutes, or never come. Aarogya Setu keeps saying COWIN is down. Even after you register someone who is 18+ after a lot of effort, none of the vaccination ... Read more

Dr. Naval Parikh An internist, or internal medicine physician, who primarily sees patients in an office-based setting, in addition to rounding on patients in the hospital. Naval Parikh covers a broad scope of medicine to include total body wellness, disease prevention, and management of chronic conditions and illnesses. Internal Medicine Primary Care Physicians typically treat adults, some adolescents, and the elderly as well. Dr. Naval Parikh is a certified physician who offers high-quality primary and specialized treatments, he also trains to include primary care and internal medicine. His practice offers additional care in a variety of specialties. The maintenance certification ... Read more

Mental health billing involves multiple billing of the same patient until complete recovery. Like other specialties, mental health billing is quite different, and it is not possible for even physicians to set a time limit for treating patients. This makes the billing complicated to the medical practice and lot of confusions can arise in assigning the right codes. More than anything, among the types of services offered under mental health, pre-authorization, unbundling concerns, and the size of the staff and their availability, mental health billing facilities are often at a negative side compared to other healthcare professionals. Behavioural health billing ... Read more