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. …
The alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by pharmaceutical firms in the country, has come under the judicial scrutiny with the Supreme Court seeking the Centre's stand on a plea for an independent probe into it. A bench of justices R.M. Lodha and H.L. Gokhale issued notices to the …
The Health Ministry has decided to ban serological diagnostic test for tuberculosis, in line with a World Health Organisation recommendation. India is going to become the first country to execute the ban on the test, which is highly inaccurate but commonly used. It is estimated that 1.5 million patients are …
New Delhi: India has reported its first case of vaccine derived polio virus (VDPV) infection of 2012. A five-monthold child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine. This, however, does not threaten India’s recently World Health Organisation (WHO) …
After having witnessed a year-long polio free period and being taken off the list of polio endemic countries, India is now looking at the endgame strategy to combat the deadly virus. With an aim to decide the long-term strategy in fighting the virus, the India Expert Advisory group (IEAG) which …
The Jammu and Kashmir government has utilised 84 per cent of the Rs 592.61 crore received from the Centre under the flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme. The state had received Rs 592.61 crore from the Centre under the NRHM scheme since its inception till January 2012, while another …
Jaipur: A division bench of the high court has called for an explanation from the Union and state governments on a PIL seeking court intervention on the failure of the governments as also other agencies in checking teh steep decline in sex ratio. The PIL stated that the anti-dowry law, …
New Delhi: The annual budget to combat tuberculosis (TB), the deadly air-borne disease, for 2012-13 will see about 80% increase over last fiscal. While the country’s annual health budget is set to increase by a meagre 13% this year, the Planning Commission has decided to raise allocation for the TB …
A meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday decided to increase the total expenditure on health to 2.5 per cent of the GDP from the current 1.4 per cent by the end of the coming 12th Plan period. Chaired by Pulok Chatterji, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, the …
THE 1993 World Development Report (WDR) was subtitled ‘Investing in Health’ and advanced the argument that better health outcomes facilitate economic development.1 Even if one contests the direction of causation, correlation between better health outcomes and higher levels of economic development is not in doubt.
While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and several other dignitaries lined up at the Polio Summit at Vigyan Bhawan to take credit for making India free of polio endemic, the Government did little to acknowledge the contribution of one man who visualised the pulse polio …
The health ministry has suggested that the pricing of essential medicines be based on either the average price of the three cheapest brands or the government’s bulk procurement price, rejecting a draft policy of the department of pharmaceuticals. The ministry’s recommendation, made earlier this month, has drawn flak from drug …
After registering a zero-polio period in the last one year, India will now be aiming at eradicating measles, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said here on Sunday. "India still accounts for two-thirds of measles deaths across the world. We have to address all concerns associated with the measles now," Azad …
The Union Health Ministry has mooted a proposal for monitoring construction activity and service delivery in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) by independent accredited agencies. The proposal, which comes seven years after the scheme kicked off in 2005, was discussed in a recent Empowered Programme Committee — the highest …
Announcing his ministry’s intent of observing 2012 as the year of intensification of immunisation, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the lessons from the polio programme could be used to combat other dreaded diseases. At the conclusion of the two-day Polio Summit here Azad said: “Emboldened by our …
Buoyed by the success of door-to-door polio vaccination drive, the Union Health Ministry plans to soon start an ambitious Teeka Express, a mobile vaccine van, which will cover 50 districts in the first phase. The Teeka Express will deliver all vaccines that are part of the national immunisation programme and …
Admitting that the healthcare system was “overwhelmed” by inequities, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said the government would provide universal healthcare in the 12th Plan and take steps to ensure free generic drugs at all public health facilities so as to reduce out of pocket expenditure of patients. …
This vaccine policy is more about spending and coverage, than about protecting children. It is not designed to enhance national public capacities for public immunization programmes, but to justify spending public money on public private partnerships (PPPs) or privately produced vaccines in the name of protection from diseases, whose incidence …
India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was on Saturday taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 here in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. …
India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 here in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Azad …
India may have won the battle against polio but the war is far from over. Having achieved one full polio-free year, the key challenge now is to ensure that any residual or imported poliovirus in the country is rapidly detected and eliminated. The challenge is also to ensure that all …
