This episode in HealthCast on HealthBrief is from the IMA Podcast series that the podcast division of Adfactors PR created for the Indian Medical Association under the Wealth of Health Podcast series, and features Dr Jayesh Manohar Lele in conversation with a young Resident doctor who works in a Mumbai hospital.
(This episode was one of five conceived, written, produced and published by Adfactors PR’s Podcasts division for the IMA podcasts series Wealth Of Health, which won multiple awards.)
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The Resident doctor, who requested IMA give him a fictitious name for the conversation, spoke of the alarming work conditions of resident doctors whose work pressures often see them putting in more than 24 straight hours at work, living in cramped, terribly unhygienic and near-dilapidated accommodation often lacking basic facilities, and eating food prepared in dirty, rat-infested kitchens. It’s a shocking story!
The Indian Medical Association launched the Wealth of Health Podcast series on World TB Day, which fell on Sunday, the 24th of March 2019. Now, the Indian Medical Association is the only representative voluntary organization of Doctors of Modern Scientific System of Medicine, and which looks after the interest of doctors as well as the well being of the community at large.
And therefore, what, to our mind, is truly laudable, is that the IMA is probably the first representative, not-for-profit voluntary body of its size and stature in India that has launched a podcast series.
For a body that was created way back in 1928, this is definitely an extremely progressive initiative.
