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. …
India is yet to have an intelligence agency for diseases, despite facing epidemics every year Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 2, 2009, 0:45 IST A public health ministry acts as an intelligence agency for diseases. However, India is yet to have such a body, despite facing epidemics every year. …
The last time the prime minister bent too far to keep the coalition going WHEN the United Progressive Alliance (upa) was looking for partners after the 2004 general election, anyone was welcome. But has better judgment prevailed this time around? The coalition could ask itself this as it clears the …
The Union health ministry along with US-AID is doing a project in seven districts in the state to identify susceptible areas of Avian Flu and measures that could be taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Dr Suneel Kumar Muttoo, resident advisor of US-AID, said seven vulnerable areas have …
The closure of all the three government-run vaccine manufacturing units in the country in January 2008 has had a major implication on the immunisation programme of the country in 2008-2009. Not only has there been a shortfall of vaccine, the government target achieved has been far less than what was …
India is reeling from a debilitating shortage of vaccines, which has severely affected the universal immunization programme reveals the latest report in Down To Earth (DTE). Is based on response to an RTI application filed by DTE that revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. See Also …
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. The health ministry was forced to get vaccines illegally from the very public sector manufacturers it suspended last year Shuvam Kumar …
Official admission In December 2008, a team of health ministry officials toured 13 states to review the National Rural Health Mission. They found, among other things, hospitals in Bihar did not have vaccines for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus. The review also reported shortages in Assam, where measles vaccine was …
cyrus s poonawalla, chairperson and managing director of Serum Institute of India Ltd, a private vaccine manufacturer, says the vaccine shortage is a mess the government created. Edited excerpts: On self-sufficiency: Except for polio vaccine, we can provide all vaccines required for the Universal Immunization Programme. Whatever orders were placed …
Strengthen public sector The lack of foresight shown by former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss in shutting the public sector without first ensuring alternatives and lack of transparency have put a generation of children at risk. Clearly, the private sector
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has recommended an in-depth review of 20 innovative schemes being implemented by States and Union Territories (UT) under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) for scaling up and replication. The term
On June 11, the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the current worldwide epidemic of the new influenza virus A(H1N1), commonly called swine flu, to the status of a pandemic, the highest level of global alert. This is the first flu pandemic in 41 years. The last one was the 1968 …
New Delhi: The long-pending proposal to introduce pentavalent vaccine in the National Immunisation Programme is likely to take off soon. The plan has already been cleared by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) and will be put up before the Cabinet soon. The proposal hit the wall after former Union Health …
The Himachal Pradesh Government has notified the creation and establishment of a new Directorate of Health Safety and Regulations which would function independently under the Department of Health and Family Welfare. The new Directorate, which would mainly be a regulatory body to observe the safety norms, shall deal with subjects …
New Delhi: With the samples of a nine-year-old boy, who arrived in Hyderabad on Sunday night from New Jersey through London, testing positive on Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases of H1N1 virus in India has gone up to 31. The boy was detected with flu-like symptoms at the Hyderabad …
Allaying Fears, Minister Says Enough Stock Of Tamiflu Available In Country New Delhi: A concerned health ministry reiterated its plea to Indians asking them to desist from travelling to swine-flu affected countries till the pandemic was brought under control.
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Though the World Health Organisation on Thursday declared an A (H1N1) influenza pandemic, putting the affected countries on the highest alert, India continues to be in the
