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. …
Will promote Government doctors to start private practise post duty hours: Activists The Rajasthan Jan Swasthya Abhiyan has taken strong exception to a recent notification issued by the State Government revising the fee charged by various categories of government doctors and nursing staff for private practice, and demanded its immediate …
Concerned over the high maternal and infant mortality rate in the country, the Centre on Wednesday launched an ambitious programme to provide free services to pregnant women for deliveries and neo-natal care, if needed, up to a month after birth. The facility will be available to all women in government …
With a view to providing all required healthcare facilities to pregnant women and infants free of cost, UPA and National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi launched an ambitious scheme, Rashtriya Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram here today. Patterned on the Janani Suraksha Yojana already operational in Haryana, the scheme has been adopted …
Introduction of Haemophilus Influenza type B (HiB) containing pentavalent vaccines in the Universal Immunization Program (UIP) was a far sighted decision taken in 2009 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. This decision was based on the recommendations of National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) …
THE national vaccine policy draft, submitted in the Delhi High Court recently, strongly favours inclusion of new vaccines in the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). The court had sought the draft from the Centre last year in a case against introduction of new vaccines. It will hear the case next on …
Ahead of the World No Tobacco Day to be observed tomorrow Ahead of the World No Tobacco Day to be observed on May 31, several top-notch schools in the Capital have declared themselves
The government may make it mandatory for all doctors to write the generic or chemical name of drugs they prescribe, a move that can cut medicine costs by more than half. Last year, the health ministry had asked doctors in over 300 central government hospitals, clinics and autonomous institutions under …
Volunteers dispense naturally-prepared medicines Namakkal: Volunteers trained under the AYUSH-Isha Organic Health System, a pilot project launched by Isha Outreach in collaboration with the department of AYUSH under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, have been treating villagers in Kolli Hills for common …
DRUG-resistant NDM-1 gene has been debated ever since India was identified a source of the gene in patients in the UK. The debate intensified on April 7, 2011, when the journal Lancet Infectious Disease published a paper which stated that the gene (New Delhi Metallo-betalactamase- 1) was found in tap …
Delhi Health Minister A. K. Walia has said that the State Government would be enforcing the new Food Safety and Standard Act-2006 within the next three months, thereby ensuring heavy fine and punishment of up to life imprisonment for adulteration. Also, all food establishments would now be required to procure …
With 40 per cent health related problems caused by tobacco consumption in the country, the worried Union Health Ministry is seeking to introduce the tobacco cessation and control programme as part of the MBBS curriculum. The Ministry has written to the Medical Council of India (MCI) for the first time …
Expressing concern over the declining child sex ratio as indicated in the provisional figures of the Census 2011, civil society groups have asked the Centre to take cognisance of the increasing challenges in this area of sex selection and undertake urgent measures to overcome these. As per the figures, the …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave a nod to increasing the benchmark prices of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) and muriate of potash (MoP) to ensure adequate availability during the upcoming kharif sowing season. The benchmark price will be increased to $612 per tonne for DAP and $420 per tonne for MoP …
PUBLIC health programmes in India are focused on infectious diseases like cholera and malaria. But non-communicable diseases (NCDS) like cancer and heart ailments are known to kill more people. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad acknowledged rising incidence of NCDS at a two-day World Health Organization (WHO) meeting which concluded …
Concerned over the sharp decline in the child sex ratio as reflected in the provisional Census figures, the Centre on Saturday reconstituted the Central Supervisory Board set up under the Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (PC & PNDT Act). Chaired by the Union Minister for Health and Family …
The death of 16 women admitted to a government hospital in Jodhpur for childbirth exposes the sorry state of the public health system in Rajasthan. THE death of 16 women, who had sought obstetric care, within a span of a fortnight following infection caused by contaminated intravenous (IV) fluid injection …
