Index Home Nursing is a parental instinct. This innate emotion to provide care transcends beyond human species. Word ‘nurse’ has its origin in latin ‘nutrire‘ to suckle. Maternal and child care is an ancient nursing task. Various cultures describe wet-nurses – who would take care of children and even breast-feed them. Ancient nursing was more of… Continue reading Nursing care: evolution of a profession
Month: December 2022
Hospitals around the world: Different strokes for Ivory-towers
Index Home Ivory-towers are places of seclusion. Its inmates are often busy in their own pursuits, unaware of the world outside. Critics often equate hospitals to ivory-towers, both from a position of strength and weakness. Regardless, hospitals house suffering as well as joy, pain as well as curse, deaths as well as births. In this blog… Continue reading Hospitals around the world: Different strokes for Ivory-towers
Medical colleges and hospitals in India
Index Home Today India has more than 590 medical colleges, and about 64 standalone postgraduate institutes. There are more than 70,000 hospitals in India. Healthcare system in India is ancient. We first interacted with modern medicine through Portuguese physicians. However, British East India Company (EIC) established first hospitals. First modern hospital was Cogan’s house (west 1664)… Continue reading Medical colleges and hospitals in India