WASHINGTON: With India battling swine flu, an eminent Indian-American doctor has stated it is the proper time the federal government within the nation hurries up procedure of coaching its docs in infectious diseases or else it could be too past due to deliver the location underneath keep watch over.
With a rustic of 1000000000 plus inhabitants, India is literally sitting on a time bomb of infectious illness, and it's quite miserable that the Indian Government and the health officers in spite of figuring out this truth are reluctant to boost up the process in this regard, Dr Navin Shah, One of the founders of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) and its previous president, stated.
Dr Shah says he has been unsuccessfully campaigning in New Delhi for the closing three years to push India to train its docs in infectious diseases (ID).
"There are over 50 million infectious disease patients in India and has no specialist. Compared to this, in US, where deaths due to ID are minuscule, there are about 6,000 ID specialists," Shah, who hails from the Pune town, advised PTI in an interview.
A country of one billion other folks wishes a minimum of 15,000 ID specialists.
Maryland-based urologist, Dr Shah says there aren't any takers in New Delhi for his proposal to train a minimum of one Indian doctor freed from value in US on infectious diseases.
With a rustic of 1000000000 plus inhabitants, India is literally sitting on a time bomb of infectious illness, and it's quite miserable that the Indian Government and the health officers in spite of figuring out this truth are reluctant to boost up the process in this regard, Dr Navin Shah, One of the founders of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) and its previous president, stated.
Dr Shah says he has been unsuccessfully campaigning in New Delhi for the closing three years to push India to train its docs in infectious diseases (ID).
"There are over 50 million infectious disease patients in India and has no specialist. Compared to this, in US, where deaths due to ID are minuscule, there are about 6,000 ID specialists," Shah, who hails from the Pune town, advised PTI in an interview.
A country of one billion other folks wishes a minimum of 15,000 ID specialists.
Maryland-based urologist, Dr Shah says there aren't any takers in New Delhi for his proposal to train a minimum of one Indian doctor freed from value in US on infectious diseases.
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