Dr Bogoch and his team, which included experts from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, said the only reason he used an Apple iPhone was because it was his own handset.
However, the numbers currently being treated in specialist clinics are just a "drop in the ocean, " given the millions of Indians with little or no access to health care, according to Gulrez Shah Azhar, a senior lecturer at the Indian Institute of Public Health in Gandhinagar.
The Royal Institute for Public Health says the government should be much more radical.
"We expect a tremendous nursing shortage of about 500, 000 people by 2030, " said Professor Stefan Goerres, managing director of the Institute for Public Health and Health Care Research at the University of Bremen.
The Kenyan Medical Research Institute, under MOPH (Ministry of Public Health), also supported the ban based on this study.
What schools need, he said, is something like NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), the public body that assesses medicines and medical techniques for safety, clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a free-market oriented public policy organization that focuses on health care issues.
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The Institute of Medicine, a group that uses scientific research to formulate public health policies, currently recommends an Adequate Intake, or AI, rather than a specific daily amount of vitamin D.
In an interview broadcast Thursday on Public Radio International, Obama said Romney was "pretending" the health care plan he helped institute as governor of Massachusetts differed from the national plan that Democrats in Congress passed two years ago.
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