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Dr. Somya Gupta

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3 years

Thinking of starting a political party in India which will have a scientific approach to problems and focus on health and education, particularly women's health! 😌

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9 cesareans in 24 hours. My whole body hurts. 😓

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4 years

Have done 4 cesareans today till now wearing those PPE kits aka hypoxia-inducing suits. 😤😩

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"Koi ise pregnant kar do". Is this not a rape threat? Why is Twitter not taking action against such accounts?

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Tested negative for covid 19 after managing sick covid patients for 14 days and doing 2 cesareans of covid patients. Thankful for the science behind PPE. #PPEWorks #ScienceWorks #StopCovidStigma

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4 months

Sneha is trying to frame cervical cancer as a disease that "promiscuous women" get. If someone follows her news, please stop. We have a huge cervical cancer disease burden thanks to poor screening and poor HPV vaccine coverage. Moronic journalists like her are another reason.

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4 years

I performed cesareans of two covid positive patients yesterday. Both stable and asymptomatic. Both mothers and babies doing well. Cesareans take 45 min to 1 hour max. Even then we almost collapsed in the PPE. I wonder how longer duration surgeries are being performed with PPE.

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4 months

Cervical cancer is NOT a "sexually transmitted disease". Dying of cervical cancer at age 32 is very rare. Thanks for letting everyone know the level of your research and truth telling so people may decide themselves whether to trust the "news" you are dishing out.

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4 months

Another moron with a huge following. Cervical cancer is NOT a sexually transmitted disease. Majority of women who are unfortunate enough to get cervical cancer are in monogamous relationships in India. Stop using a very tragic death to further your bullshit propaganda.

Dr.Dhruv Chauhan

@DrDhruvchauhan

4 months

I remember how feminists and supporters of multiple sexual partners across the nation started targeting me when I said the same thing in a strict manner because it has potential to take away someone’s life Some so called woke doctors here also supported them to look cool saying…

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This is what happens when you just google stuff without going deep into the literature or consulting an expert in the field. Emergency contraception like i-pill are completely safe. Whatever side effects they have are temporary, including that on menses.

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India is a country with a huge burden of HIV/AIDS spread heterosexually among married couples who are supposedly in monogamous relationships. Stop shaming people for their sexual choices and face the reality - we need to talk about sex openly to stop Indians dying in the dark.

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3 years

A renowned (male) obstetrician in India while presenting on preeclampsia just said, "it is very important for the patient to be quiet before and during the measurement of blood pressure. And since all my patients are females it is almost impossible." Why are Indian men like this?

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2 years

Imagine a loved one being very sick and you suddenly have to worry about finances instead of hoping for them to get better. That is the healthcare in India - we should have quality and affordable healthcare. Unaffordable heathcare is not healthcare - it is state's apathy.

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4 months

Working as a doctor in India is like being Galileo and declaring for the first time that Earth revolves around the Sun and then facing condemnation for it. So many complete morons with large following dishing out fresh steaming pile of bullshit every minute.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

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8 months

There is no "late stage abortion", Kushan. Pregnancy termination beyond viability is called a delivery. And only a pregnant woman gets to decide what she does with her pregnancy. The day men develop eclamptic seizures when their partners are pregnant, they can opine on this.

Kushan Mitra

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I support abortion, but late-stage abortion when a foetus is a viable is murder.

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2 years

100% of pregnant Indian women delivering in public (govt) hospitals do not have access to pain relief options in labor - many require it for medical reasons like epilepsy, but the system is not in place to provide it. Many suffer traumatic births, PTSD due to it. #painfreelabor

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4 years

Have done 4 cesareans today till now wearing those PPE kits aka hypoxia-inducing suits. 😤😩

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Dr. Somya Gupta

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2 years

Today I want to talk about labor analgesia. Labor pains are considered a part and parcel of childbirth and womanhood. Women are put on a pedestal and compared to goddesses for bearing labor pains like a champ.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

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3 months

If I counsel 100 Indian women with completed families, I can successfully persuade 80-90 of them to choose tubectomy. If I were to counsel 100 Indian men with completed families, I wouldn't be able to convince even 5 for a vasectomy. Takes 2 people to make a a baby.

Shuvayan Dutta

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@gunnergworl Sadly I won't get pregnant! But the thing is that everyone needs to be aware about safe sex and other contraceptive measures, otherwise frequent abortions may result in increased complications in pregnancy. I hope you don't want to experience that

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4 years

My father has been on high flow nasal oxygen since 18th Nov. He has tested negative but is still dependent on the machine for his oxygen requirements. This virus causes respiratory failure. It badly injures the lungs. Please do not take it lightly.

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@dr_somyagupta

6 months

Normal delivery takes 3-4 weeks to "heal" ? Cesarean "7 weeks" ? What a dumb guy with a mobile phone and internet connection.

Utkarṣ Miśra ॐ

@utkarsh72_ps

6 months

@Kamal_t Please leave this country. 😃 Normal delivery takes upto 3 to 4 weeks to heal. It took 3.5 for my mother. Whereas it took 7 weeks for my aunt who went through C-Section with loads of medicines. We can see what profit making game going on!

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Dr. Somya Gupta

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3 years

Congratulations to Kareena Kappor on a successful pregnancy and birth at the age of 40 years! As more and more women focus on their education and careers, advanced maternal age is becoming common. Their concerns are unique and challenging.

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2 years

Firstly no one should be made to bear labor pains in this day and age - EPIDURALS FOR ALL! Secondly, no, cesarean is not done just to save lives - cesareans can be done on maternal request too given the horrible and unforeseen consequences of so many vaginal deliveries.

Dr Jaison Philip. M.S., MCh

@Jasonphilip8

2 years

Madam @dr_somyagupta , what is your take on this?

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3 years

Reservation is a hot topic these days. Having worked with people from reserved categories all my life I can easily say that the privileges that upper caste people enjoy, things that upper caste kids do not even have to work for are so many that it is mindblowing.

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4 years

We don't have N95 masks. Non medical people accompanying patients have N 95 masks.. 😒

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3 years

Verbal and physical abuse of female patients at the hands of doctors and nurses at govt hospitals in India really breaks my heart. I feel helpless - unable to confront my colleagues, unable to rescue the patients from the abuse. Worse is a constant fear of becoming one of em. 🥺

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2 years

The worst part about medical training is that it is a highly lonely experience as opposed to other fields in which people learn by interacting and brain-storming. The time spent studying alone in a room for medical students and doctors - and then forgetting it - is too much.

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2 years

@shahalam13 India is going through scary transformation - no words can describe it - just dreadful atmosphere.. I am really sorry you and so many of my friends have to endure this poison daily.

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Vasectomy rates in India remain woefully low compared to tubectomy (female sterilization) inspite of it being a much simpler and cheaper procedure. Female reproductive system is intra-abdominal, whereas males have their testes hanging outside - vasectomy can be done under LA.

Ashley Winter MD || Urologist

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Vasectomy is not castration. No one removes your testicles during a vasectomy.

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4 years

First covid cesarean done today at our hospital successfully. Both mom and baby doing well. 😇

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2 years

I often come across cases of post-coital bleeding in my practice. Newly married women- first wedding night - big deep lateral vaginal wall tear. I think there is a lot of work to be done to educate India youth that porn is not sex, sex should not hurt, use lubrication, technique.

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Instead of Hindi language MBBS I would like to see important patient information leaflets being formed in all local languages - not just Hindi. The need of the hour is patient information and giving patients choice and agency over medical decisions - will improve patient outcomes

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There is no virtue in suffering pain when modern medicines exist that can relieve that pain. Just like there is no virtue in suffering an angina pain when medicines exist to tackle that pain.

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This is a good litmus test to reveal wife-beaters in our community. Only a wife-beater would find this movie and its very relevant and relatable story objectionable. #ViolenceAgainstWomen

Catachi

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#BoycottAliaBhatt who is endorsing DV on Men. Imagine if the genders were reversed!

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I daily meet both kinds of women - wanting abortion and undergoing a heartbreaking miscarriage. I counsel and treat them based on their needs and do not restrict or interfere with their absolute right to choose about when to have a baby. It's called reproductive rights.

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Saw a woman's breakdown in the GYNAE OPD when she was informed that she could not have a baby. And here girls are doing reckless abortions. What a world we live in.

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Abortion is legal in India but that doesn't mean it is easy. There is still huge stigma attached to it, we need to work on improving pain management during abortion and access to safe and judgement-free abortion.

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4 years

Going to be posted in covid ward soon. Will live in isolation room for 2 weeks & then quarantine in another room for another 2 weeks. I have become such a cooking addict that I'm packing an induction hot plate & spices. Not sure if I'll have the time & motivation but still..

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2 years

Maybe the neurosurgeon should try to repair a complete perineal tear once to see what women are left with after traumatic vaginal deliveries. Anyway, pain is not something that women have to bear EVER - whether in deliveries, sex, menstruation, or any chronic pain.

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I am in London. Coming from Delhi, I wonder where has all the dust gone!? I knew Delhi is very polluted but experiencing London's level of clean air has made me realise just how polluted Delhi is! :/

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The headlines in India are misleading. It is not pvt labs that are "charging" fees for these tests. The tests have a cost and the lab technicians doing tests need to be paid. The govt has refused to "bear" the costs of the tests done in pvt labs. That should be the headline.

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4 months

Hpv causes cervical cancer. That's indisputable. Almost everyone who ever has sex gets HPV, also indisputable. Stigmatizing sexual choices for contracting an awful and rare disease like cancer is insane and harmful. Devil is in the detail. It's not a simplistic deduction.

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Reservation is just a tiny bit of hope for people who live in extreme disadvantage to dream big and achieve something that has been denied for them for centuries. Imagine thinking that all odds are stacked against you and then becoming the first doctor ever in your family.

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3 years

People spend lakhs on weddings. WTF. If you are going to start a new life with someone why not save up for the future. I will just put out a tweet announcing the event (if it happens) and save all of my money and time.

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4 years

A pregnant woman with antepartum hemorrhage presented to our hospital after 18 hours of bleeding per vaginum continuously. On being asked why she made such a delay in seeking medical attention, she said she was busy making food for the family.

MHTF

@MHTF

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“These data shows us the urgency of stepping up our efforts to support women’s rights and agency.” A new @UNFPA report shows that, in 57 developing countries, about a quarter of women are not able to make their own decisions about accessing #healthcare . "

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If you, by any chance, get entry into a medical career, I sincerely advise you to read about how scientific evidence is formulated and what "good evidence" means. XYZ happened with my mother /aunt is anecdotal evidence with zero value.

Utkarṣ Miśra ॐ

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6 months

@dr_somyagupta Evn lady doc who looked after my mother & kept insisting for a C section, said it’s a normal delivery so 2 to 3 wks of rest should be fine. It would be long if it was an operation to let the stitches heal. You really need to cross check what postpartum recovery period is. 🙂

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Went to a village health camp today. Things we take for granted - essential medicines, pathology labs, ultrasound, X ray, eye tests - no such facility for miles around. Not even a simple cream to treat scabies. Not even a urine pregnancy test. This is where 70% of India lives.

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A 5 months pregnant resident doctor from Kerala, India has passed away from Covid-19! Dreadful news. @MoHFW_INDIA continues to contraindicate life-saving covid vaccination in pregnant and lactating women, even though leading global health organisations recommend it!

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Umbilical cord blood collected from a neonate cannot be used to treat a genetic disease or malignancy in that same individual because stored cord blood contains the same genetic variant or premalignant cells that led to the condition being treated.

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We need to urgently talk about #obstetricviolence and how to end this now and forever. Attitudes toward women when they are at their most vulnerable have to change NOW. There is no place for dehumanization, misogyny, paternalism in #obstetrics .

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But labor pains can be subdued with modern painkillers without any harmful effects to the mother, her baby, and the labor process. There are many forms of labor analgesia of which “epidural” is the most common and popular.

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The pill and the freedom it has provided to women is really the most important scientific invention of the last century. It has shaken the core of patriarchy and patriarchs just cannot accept science helping women have more agency in reproductive choices.

Aakash

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@dr_somyagupta I think you have mistaken medical literature with radical feminist literature.

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4 years

Just finished my last covid duty! 😊😊😊😊

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4 months

No wonder that journalists who cannot even confirm if a person is actually dead before running away with the story have no qualms in promoting false and inaccurate medical facts for the sake of sensational journalism. Saw a cervical cancer patient today, a woman 53 years old.

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4 years

Why is the PM of the largest democracy in the world so unreachable that he can't take questions from the press even in the time of a global pandemic? And no collective call from sleeping 1.3 billion people to even ask for it? Democracy in India will be short-lived.

NDTV

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"At 9 am tomorrow morning, I’ll share a small video message with my fellow Indians": Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Thankful for the amazing nursing staff and cleaning staff. It would have been impossible without them. It is a team effort and I was part of a great team.

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Consultant telling resident doctor how stressed they are. #TrueStory

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3 years

Teleconsultations for medical abortions can prove to be a superb way to drastically reduce unsafe abortions, unwanted pregnancies, maternal mortality and ultimately empower women! Ever since I started it, a major chunk of my patients are distressed women in need of a safe space.

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4 years

Hospitals can't function without money! It's time Indians realize quality healthcare requires lots and lots of money. But also healthcare is a human right. Our taxes should be spent on healthcare, not fighter jets, not statues, not places of worship.

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I was under the impression that the primary job of hospitals was to save the lives of many and not the profits of the few.

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Doctors not only have to treat patients regardless of religion, political affiliation, nationality, addictions, criminal background - but they should provide quality treatment respecting the patient's wishes and autonomy. We are doctors, not judges/priests/morality police.

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India will not progress by leaving behind the less privileged and further widening the wealth inequalities. I have had moments before my entrance exams when I used to feel like a "vicitm" of caste-based reservation too.

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Targeting @BDUTT for reporting the truth will not change the truth. Indians are dying daily due to lack of beds, oxygen, medical care and the state has abandoned them.

barkha dutt

@BDUTT

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This gentleman thinks that showing Indians the mounting casualties at cremation grounds, graveyards, and gates of hospitals is necrophilia. Do they have no sense of how disgusting, elitist, tone deaf, appalling these comments are . Ugh . Speechless

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Shameful ! Do not understand the logic of saving public money this way. We pay taxes so that dependables ( minors and senior citizens) get social benefits. What's the point of being a democracy that cannot take care of its senior citizens?

Press Trust of India

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Railways earned additional revenue of Rs 2,242 crore from senior citizens in 2022-23 after suspending ticket concession: RTI reply

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Result of keeping migrants cramped together in small spaces. Treating them as subhumans. The state has failed them.

Anurag Jain LL.B.

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एक बात बता दीजिए क्या सभी मजदूर मजबूर है ? अब कौन झेलेगा इन कोरोना बमों को ? @DrRebellious

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Adequate pain relief during labor can even improve utero-placental perfusion and decrease the incidence of postpartum depression and persistent postpartum pain. The pain relief also blunts adverse cardiac, respiratory and GI side effects of catecholamines.

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6 months

Good universities, teachers and Delhi medical council made me a doctor. No rest is recommended after vaginal deliveries, Mr "Avid Reader". Women can and should move about immediately after vaginal deliveries and 6-12 hours after cesarean sections.

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@dr_somyagupta Yes 3 weeks of rest is recommended. I don’t know who made you a doc. It’s a basic thing which you can even google.

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Please do everyone a favor and dont prepare for MBBS. A person who cannot have basic layman understanding of women's illnesses and is dismissing them as hysteria can never be a good doctor.

Utkarṣ Miśra ॐ

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6 months

@Kamal_t We are well aware from the chicaneries done at the name of surgeries. And I belong to a doctor’s family and currently preparing for MBBS. It’s just we reject fudging people unlike you who attack normal deliveries which enable hospitals to charge irrelevant amount of money.

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The public health focus in India is solely on preventing maternal deaths, but quality of lives that are saved matter too! Even though anaesthetists are available round-the-clock in public hospitals, policy/reluctance to change is standing in way to providing pain relief options.

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3 years

The masculine urge to objectify women. SMH

Shashi Tharoor

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Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work? With six of my fellow MPs this morning: ⁦ @supriya_sule ⁩ ⁦ @preneet_kaur ⁩ ⁦ @ThamizhachiTh ⁩ ⁦ @mimichakraborty ⁩ ⁦ @nusratchirps ⁩ ⁦⁦ @JothimaniMP ⁩

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The new India-made #cervavac vaccine can revolutionise the prevention of cervical cancer in India. It is expected to be a much cheaper (Rs 200 per dose) alternative to the currently available Gardasil and Cervarix which can cost upto Rs 3000 per dose.

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The more stigma you attach to sex and sexual choices, the more you prevent people from practising safe sex and seeking early care and help. Monogamy is not the epitome of good sexual health. Barrier contraceptive, access to abortion, STI testing, treatment are models to follow.

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The caste system, the cheap labor, the extreme poverty has desensitised many people in India. We don't think all Indians are inherently equal and are deserving of quality healthcare no matter the bank balance. The otherisation of poor is entrenched and status quo is accepted.

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@dr_somyagupta Us privileged Indians will always criticise NHS - we will always feel our Indian system is better without much waiting - because we can go & get private care. Unlike millions who cannot. We have zero understanding of equity.

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A very fine needle is used to put a thin tube into your spinal cord, without entering any bone - as the vertebrae in the your backbone have holes through which this needle can pass, and the pain-relieving medicine is delivered via this tube into the “epidural space”.

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6 years

They should prefix everything they say with "fake ", eg "for fake development and fake good governance, BJP is necessary." #GorakhpurByPoll

ANI UP/Uttarakhand

@ANINewsUP

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Gorakhpur: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath casts his vote for #GorakhpurByPoll at a polling station, says 'For development and good governance, BJP is necessary.'

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This person works at India Today, supposedly a large news network in India. Is not having a single functioning brain cell a prerequisite to work at @IndiaToday ?

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The spinal cord has 3 layers - dura, arachnoid and pia. The space above the dura is known as “the epidural space”. Contrary to popular belief - receiving an epidural during childbirth doesn’t predispose you to develop osteroporosis or back pain later in life.

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Almost all of those delivering in small nursing homes and delivering at home will also come under this group. Women delivering in big corporate hospitals have access to good analgesia - a very small minority of women. There is a big unmet need for labor pain-relief in India.

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Cervical cancer screening is started at age 30 in India. Pap smear testing and HPV testing are both methods for screening for cervical cancer. Women are advised to get papa done every 3 years till 60-65 years starting at age 30.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

I understand the outrage and shock over this. But it is so common! People living in bubbles have no idea how 90% India lives. If you are a pregnant Indian woman of lower-socioeconomic status - you are the most helpless creature on the planet! Sad, horrific, true.

Hemant Rajaura

@hemantrajora_

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Shocking : सफदरजंग अस्पताल परिसर के अंदर सड़क पर ही महिला बच्चे को जन्म देने के लिए मजबूर हुई। परिजनों का आरोप है कि कल रात आए थे लेकिन उन्हें अंदर नहीं लिया गया। इस मामले पर अस्पताल ने तुरंत जांच शुरू कर दी है। #Safdarjung

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

3 years

In hospital on Diwali 😏 Happy Diwali everyone !

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

3 years

It is so disheartening to see how facts are countered with intimidation and threats! Nobody can "denigrate" your system of medicine if it were based on any sound scientific basis. More power to you @drabbyphilips !

TheLiverDoc

@theliverdr

3 years

Ministry of AYUSH, the watchdog of alternative systems of medicine in India WARNS me to SHUT UP and NOT talk about herbal drug toxicities and quack medical practices So they send letters of concern against me to most medical authorities in India and my State 4 the people💯👍

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

4 years

@BBCWorld He is an insult to people with actual anxieties

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

4 months

Ideally, every girl & boy should get 3 doses of HPV vaccine by age 14. And, cancer screening started by paps by age 30, every 3 years till age 60. However, recent studies say, even a single HPV vaccine dose till age 45 and a single lifetime paps is better than none at all.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

On one hand India is short of doctors with many doctors leaving the country for better opportunities. On the other hand, doctors who want to practice in India after getting degrees from foreign colleges are discriminated against and made to feel unwelcome! #Paradox

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

5 years

@Vedanthtweets @so_radhikal Higher conviction rate is the solution. When a whole league of men start going behind bars, start realizing that they WILL not be allowed to go scot free. That's when the fear will be in the mind of rapists and murderers and not women!

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

4 years

I have turned 29 today. Goodbye to my twenties. 🤷‍♀😭

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

Interns cite their poor and traumatic experience in labor rooms as #1 reason for not choosing #OBGYN even if they find the subject really fascinating.

Arshiet Dhamnaskar

@arshiet

2 years

@dr_somyagupta The labour room I worked in had screaming patients and frustrated residents screaming even louder.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

6 years

That last line "even if i am the only one left wanting it" is so hilarious. He thinks wanting a secular society is an exceptional and unique idea. That's what happens when you spend way too much time in sanghi circles.

Chetan Bhagat

@chetan_bhagat

6 years

The Sikh police officer who saved the Muslim man. I don't care who's in power or what is your politics. That's the India I want and ever will want. Even if I am the only one left wanting it.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

We need to disconnect medical treatment and costs. At point of care - discussions should be about diagnosis, evidence-based medicine and not ICU charges, tests charges, medicine charges. Costs should be borne by the state - we want healthcare not temples, statues.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

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2 years

Patients come with heavy bleeding sometimes- lose upto 500 mL blood, need blood transfusion even. A little education can prevent a lot of regret, shame, anxiety, morbidity. Vaginal walls are extremely vascular- not to be toyed with!

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

3 years

Big delay in testing in Delhi NCR as well

barkha dutt

@BDUTT

3 years

We have reported critical shortages from oxygen to drugs to beds, but what about enormous pressure on India’s capacity to test? My report from Mumbai on gaps of 4 or 5 days between swab & results and some labs refusing to collect samples. On @themojostory

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Dr. Somya Gupta

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2 years

I think I should do a short video on labor analgesia/pain relief options. I would also like to interview any OBGYN in India interested / knowledgeable about this topic, and would also like to talk to some women who have had a difficult birth experience - vaginal or cesarean.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

4 years

Population of UP = 300 million No of tests per day in UP = 38,000 Population of US = 300 million No of tests per day in US = 500,000

ANI UP/Uttarakhand

@ANINewsUP

4 years

When the first case of #COVID19 was reported in Uttar Pradesh there was no testing lab in the state. But till yesterday 38,000 samples were being tested everyday. Uttar Pradesh has enhanced its capability for testing: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

3 years

60% of cervical cancer cases occur in women who have never had a Pap test. If you are above the age of 30 years, get a Pap test done today. Contact your local OBGYN doctor.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

4 years

Resident doctors are underpaid and treated as slaves. They are made to work in terrible conditions with very few breaks and sometimes as long as 36 hours continuously. This is inhumane and a violation of #laborlaws #LabourDayMay2020

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

Male role models are needed who can dispel myths about vasectomy. It is time men take part in family planning as it is "family planning" and not "women planning". It is time FOGSI and Indian Govt run a robust campaign promoting vasectomy as part of contraceptive options.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

8 months

As for cancer, emergency contraception is meant for emergency use only. It is better to use more effective contraception like OCP and condom. I pill usage doesn't cause cancer in long term as it is usually used in emergencies only. OCP use DECREASES risk of ovarian cancer

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

Some General Surgeons in India - who want to do private practice - try to master cesarean deliveries and hysterectomies as it is much easier to get Indian women on an OT table than men. Indians are very sceptical of surgeries and avoid surgeries unless life-saving. Discuss!

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

Why is TL suddenly full of people extolling traditional families? I have a friend who is going through a divorce because her husband used to rape her and hit her. Violence against women happens everywhere irrespective of country, culture, living arrangements. Call it out #VAW

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

PSA- Even an erect penis can wreak havoc if the woman is just impaled with it without proper positioning of legs, lubrication. Especially when both partners are inexperienced.

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

4 years

Have shifted to covid isolation room for my covid duty. Mom is worried about what will i eat and how will i live here. Dad said - "look at the plight of migrants. Look at soldiers. We are so blessed. Just protect yourself from corona and rest is secondary." Mom wins I think. 😏

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Dr. Somya Gupta

@dr_somyagupta

2 years

The way progesterone is prescribed for first trimester bleed in India - oral, per vaginal, intramuscular -soon we will have progesterone eye drops, progesterone patch, progesterone body spray!

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