prateek mehta

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[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.

A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.

A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.

These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.

The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.

A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.

#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe

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[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Mahto received chest injuries today as Jharkhand Police stopped him from participating in a tiranga yatra on Day 15 of his hunger strike.

Hundreds of FIRs against Ranchi protesters.

The beautiful hypocrisy of silence.

[prateek mehta @prateek100987]

@Pamphlet_in Fantastic job guys… a thorough research explained so nicely..

[prateek mehta @prateek100987]

@imYadav31 @Hiren_bhayani99 Same here. Mine got expired last month :(

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

It’s all about the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) bill. Too many foreign countries and their nefarious designs in India will come to a screeching halt.

[prateek mehta @prateek100987]

@business It’s truly disappointing that even a reputed media house publishes inaccurate reports and then quietly retracts them without any apology or accountability. It feels like the era when the media was trusted for its integrity and credibility is steadily fading.

[prateek mehta @prateek100987]

@MinOfCultureGoI @PMOIndia @PIB_India @gssjodhpur @Rao_InderjitS @mygovindia @AmritMahotsav @ASIGoI Very well said 👏 ❤️

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization is a powerful reminder of India’s living heritage. Dicing is also mentioned as a popular game in Rig and Atharva Vedas (two of the four sacred Vedic scriptures).

From symbols and craftsmanship to rituals, yogic practices, and collective memory, numerous elements of ancient Indian civilization continue to thrive in the daily social and religious life of Indian society across regions and communities.

Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization.

#IndusSaraswatiCivilization #AncientIndianHeritage

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

https://t.co/SE3BCAdjmS

[prateek mehta @prateek100987]

@JethmalaniM Very well written and explained. This is exactly the ground reality.

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

One of the most powerful symbols of India’s unbroken civilizational continuity!

Discovered at Mohenjo-daro in undivided India this steatite seal, about 4,300-year-old, shows a seated figure in yogic posture (widely seen as Shiva-Pashupati) seated in Mulabandhasana, surrounded by animals.

While ancient sites may lie across modern borders, India remains the living custodian of this heritage. The yogic posture, Shaivite symbolism, and spiritual ethos seen in the Pashupati Seal continue to thrive in India’s temples, daily worship of Shiva, yogic traditions, and cultural life even today.

From the Vedic period to contemporary Bharat, this civilizational thread has remained alive and unbroken — deeply embedded in our philosophy, rituals, and collective consciousness.🇮🇳

#PashupatiSeal #IndusSaraswatiCivilization #LivingIndianHeritage

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Proto-Elamite?

The Pashupati seal has an elephant, a water buffalo and a rhinoceros. Ancient Elam was centred in southwestern Iran. Elephants, water buffalos and rhinoceroses are not native to ancient Elam. BTW, they are native to India. Also, the figure is seated in a Yogic posture. Is Yoga also Elamite now? Seriously?

Your profile says you are a professor. I don't mean to sound rude, but your students deserve a refund. And seriously, Western universities need to improve their hiring practices.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

“We can’t stand in queues like the general public,” say our elected representatives. Yet it is that very public that stands in line to vote them into power, pays for the system they enjoy, and is now being told that equality ends where privilege begins. Sad is this justice! Do you agree with me?

[Comman Man @CommanMan777589]

ONE SOLDIER. ONE KHUKURI. 40 CRIMINALS. ZERO FEAR. 🇮🇳🔥

In September 2010, aboard the Maurya Express near Chittaranjan, a gang of 30–40 armed robbers turned a moving train into a mobile hell looting passengers and attempting to gang-rape an 18-year-old girl in front of her parents.

Panic. Screams. Helplessness everywhere.

And then ONE man stood up.

Gurkha soldier Bishnu Prasad Shrestha.
Indian Army.

No backup.
No weapon except his khukuri.
No hesitation.

He charged straight into the mob.

What followed was sheer terror — for the criminals.

• 3 attackers killed
• 8 brutally injured
• Entire gang fled for their lives

Bleeding, wounded, yet standing — he saved the girl, crushed the attackers, and restored fear where it belonged: inside criminals’ hearts.

This wasn’t a battlefield.
This wasn’t duty hours.
This was instinct. This was dharma. This was the Gurkha spirit.

When 40 cowards hunted the helpless,
ONE Indian soldier became death itself.

This is what real heroism looks like.
This is what Indian Army blood stands for.
This is why Gurkhas are feared in war and revered in peace.

SALUTE TO BISHNU PRASAD SHRESTHA.
SALUTE TO THE INDIAN ARMY. 🔥

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Imagine your mother is due for a total hip replacement. On the way to the OT, you learn the orthopedician operating on her had scored 4/800 in the PG entrance. Would you still have the courage to let the surgery proceed?

This is no longer hypothetical. An MS Orthopaedics seat at a govt institute in Rohtak was allotted in the third counselling to a candidate with just 4/800. At a premier Delhi medical college, a Gynaecology seat went to someone who scored 44/800, and a General Surgery seat was filled at 47/800.

It’s high time patients started asking about the NEET PG scores of their doctors. Your health should not be left at the mercy of social justice or buisness policies of the republic.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Making the General Category students suffer for the sins they did not commit is not correcting injustice but rather perpetuating it. Injustice in the campus today will be a threat to justice in the country tomorrow.

My views on the unjust UGC Equity Regulations:

[CA Himank Singla @CAHimankSingla]

Heinous Crimes in Vikshit Bharat:

Corruption ❌
Bribery ❌
Getting caught with heaps of unaccounted cash at your homes ❌

✅ Claiming your own ITR refund
✅ Asking why the refund is delayed
✅ Claiming a legitimate deduction
✅ Not disclosing Rs. 1000/- worth of IndMoney US stocks

[Divya Gandotra Tandon @divya_gandotra]

Justice is a joke in this nation.

[Ajay Rotti @ajayrotti]

These things lead to what they call malfunctioning of EVM not that 99% battery issue.

[prateek mehta @prateek100987]

🫡 🇮🇳

[Indian Air Force @IAF_MCC]

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully executed its assigned tasks in Operation Sindoor, with precision and professionalism. Operations were conducted in a deliberate and discreet manner, aligned with National Objectives.

Since the Operations are still ongoing, a detailed briefing will be conducted in due course. The IAF urges all to refrain from speculation and dissemination of unverified information.

#OpSindoor
#IndianArmedForces
#IndianAirForce
#OperationalCapability

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