Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on shortage of doctors in rural areas, 03/03/2020. Public Health being a State Subject, all the administrative and personnel matters, including that of recruitment of specialist doctors in public health facilities lie with the respective State Governments. The shortage of health human resource in public …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on rise of infant mortality rate in India, 03/03/2020. As per Sample Registration System Report released in May, 2019, Infant Mortality Rate is 33 per 1,000 live births in 2017 in comparison to global average of 30 per 1,000 live births in 2017 as per …
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 health and family welfare on July 17 has issued the Clinical Establishments (Central Government) Third Amendment Rules 2019 and the …
The new Clinical Trial Rules, the ISCR said, has reduced the time for approving applications to 30 days for drugs discovered in India or whose research and development has been done in India and are proposed to be manufactured and marketed in India. For drugs developed outside the country, the …
The Union Health Ministry has notified the Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019, with the government stating that the move is aimed at promoting clinical research in the country. The rules will apply to all new drugs, investigational new drugs for human use, clinical trials, bio-equivalence studies and ethics committees. …
NEW DELHI: The health ministry was actively mulling compulsory licensing, apart from price capping, of “orphan drugs” (for rare diseases), when the department of pharmaceuticals abruptly issued an order exempting such medicines from price control, derailing plans to make these drugs affordable. The health ministry discussed price capping and invoking …
Nearly a month after the roll out of the Centre's PMJAY health insurance scheme, one lakh people have availed the benefits of the ambitious programme, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said Sunday. The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (previously Ayushman Bharat), touted as the world's largest health insurance programme, …
The forum will be hosted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in collaboration with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) this December. India would be the global host for a meet of stakehoders from nearly 100 countries on issues related to maternal and child health, …
Most of the cases are from Shastri Nagar area where fogging and other anti-larvae activities are being carried out. Jaipur: Five new cases of Zika virus were detected in Jaipur on Sunday, taking the total number of infected people to 60, a Rajasthan health department official said. The figures were …
The government has set up a high-level task force to determine how Wild Polio Virus 2 (WPV2) traces surfaced in the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) batches made by Ghaziabad-based Biomed, which is facing criminal prosecution for the lapse. Since September 2015 when the Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis …
Order of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Seema Sehgal Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/08/2018 regarding sale of e-cigarettes. Delhi High Court directs the Secretary of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to file an affidavit indicating by whag time regulatory measures would be …
From September 1, only Karnataka Antibiotics & Pharmaceuticals, a public sector entity, would be permitted to manufacture and distribute Oxytocin. A health ministry advisory body has suggested that the Central government should not ban the sale of Oxytocin through retail chemists — which is proposed to come into force from …
LUCKNOW: Over one crore Indians are carrying the hepatitis C virus infection, according to a review of some 300 studies on the prevalence of the disease in India. Undertaken by the department of gastroenterology, SGPGIMS, which is one of a few select World Health Organisation Collaborating Centres for Viral Hepatitis …
GUWAHATI, June 27: According to a survey report released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Assam has been listed as the fourth highest tobacco consuming state in the country. The survey was conducted by the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), India. According to the report, 48.02% of the …
The government health spending per person per year in India is Rs1,112 and it has only marginally improved over the years. India’s National Health Profile (NHP)-2018 unveiled on Tuesday says the per capita public expenditure on health in the country has gone up from Rs 621 in 2009-2010 to Rs …
It's no less than a feather in the cap of India's health sector. In a major development, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday launched the National Health Resource Repository (NHRR). It’s no less than a feather in the cap of India’s health sector. In …
Warns that low rates for procedures will compromise patient safety The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has demanded a review of the Centre’s ambitious National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), saying it has “conceptual deficits and operational flaws”. The doctors’ body said the rates quoted by the government for various procedures were …
Non-BJP-ruled States unenthusiastic abouthealth insurance plan The country's most ambitious health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat may not find takers in West Bengal, Punjab, Odisha and Delhi. Interestingly, all the four are non-BJP-ruled States. Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamta Banerjee had sent top officials from the State’s Health Department for …
India accounts for the largest number of TB cases in the world and 60 per cent of the global burden of leprosy. At 27.9 lakh, India’s TB incidence in 2016 was down marginally from the previous year’s 28.4 lakh. The number of TB-related deaths was 4.35 lakh, down by 15 …
PATNA: The Bihar health department plans to write to the Union health ministry, requesting it to include ‘khaini’ as a food product under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. ‘Khaini’ is said to be a pure form of tobacco. Tobacco per se is not banned. Pure tobacco is not …
