Registration of healthcare facilities mandatory
These rules aim to make available a database of clinical establishments which are authorised to function and thereby improve public health quality by eliminating quacks The Union Ministry of public
These rules aim to make available a database of clinical establishments which are authorised to function and thereby improve public health quality by eliminating quacks The Union Ministry of public
The extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XXDR-TB) strain in 11 patients in the city has inadvertently highlighted the deplorable condition of hospitals treating the disease, giving them a new lease
The much touted 24x7 scheme for equal distribution of water in Pune seems to have slipped out of the political radar in the heat of the upcoming elections for the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). As per
The future of biodiversity parks (BDPs) is in limbo, thanks to petty politics by parties, bureaucrats and those who will benefit from its constructions on the hills. The environmentalists insist that
Recent surveys conducted in various municipal wards of the city have brought to light the abysmal condition of public toilets intended for women. Over 35 city-based NGOs across Mumbai have been crusading
Acts of spitting in public places, which is one of biggest problems in tuberculosis (TB) control, continues unabated in the city. Lack of public awareness and poor monitoring by health agencies have led
The rising number of maternal deaths in the city has sent alarm bells ringing. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s family welfare department, it has reported 199 maternal deaths from
Twenty years ago, tuberculosis was the scourge of the socio-economically backward, often slum dwellers forced to live in shanties, without a care for personal or civic hygiene. Today, many upper and middle
Acts of spitting in public, although looked down upon, continues unabated across the city. Now, with the growing fear about contracting the extensively drug resistant (XXDR) form of tuberculosis (TB),
Shiv Sena’s changed priorities in the wake of upcoming Zilla Parishad (ZP) elections seem to have put the anti-Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant (JNPP) struggle in a jeopardy. The planned jail bharo agitation
Change the current drug policy was the refrain at a meeting of doctors at the KEM Hospital on Wednesday to chart out and discuss the plan of containing the XXDR-TB (extensively drug resistant TB). Presenting