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. …
Fund For Setting Up Basic Facilities The state will get Rs 125.5 crore for improving the basic facilities of the government hospitals across the state. The fund has been sanctioned by the Centre under the national rural health programme (NRHM), said health minister V S Sivakumar. The fund will be …
Annual cancer mortality in India is 5 lakh The Cabinet today approved a multi crore scheme to provide for improved cancer care in India by setting up 20 new state cancer institutes and 50 new tertiary cancer care centres across the country. The objective of the Rs 4697 crore scheme …
Assam government today said it will roll out a number of health schemes, including tele-radiology, iron plus initiative for young girls and free inter-hospital ambulance services, at a total expenditure of over Rs 300 crore. The five different programmes will be launched on Sunday by the Union Health Minister Ghulam …
Union Minister launches seven healthcare schemes Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday said that Assam has emerged as role model in the health sector of the country by implementing the highest number of schemes under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Launching the 102 National Ambulance Service and …
Acknowledging that maternal mortality rate in the state is 8.9% due to unsafe abortions and around 15,000 women die annually across the nation due to it, the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) authorities have stressed the need of implementation of safe abortion services at health centres across all the districts …
Review of the Midday Meal (MDM) scheme on Wednesday turned into a free discussion on some important decisions to strengthen the quality and hygiene aspect of the programme. It was decided that MDM would follow the guidelines of Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI). Established under Food Safety …
70% adolescents in state anaemic in the absence of iron supplementation Undeterred by the resistance to administration of iron and folic acid tablets to students of government schools in Haryana, the Union Health Ministry, committed to pushing its anti-anaemia agenda, is all set to roll out a National Iron+ Initiative …
Health authorities reduce dose of the drug to children falling sick A day after over 800 schoolchildren were taken ill due to intake of iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets across the state, nearly 100 children fell ill in Sirsa and an equal number of children were taken ill in …
Nearly 880 students, 150 of them girls, suffered from nausea and complained of stomach ache after consuming iron tablets in government schools in several districts of Haryana, officials said on Tuesday. The folic acid (iron) tablets were given to them as part of Haryana Health Department’s supplementation programme to combat …
About 15 lakh children were administered iron and folic acid tablets in schools of 20 districts today . The Health Department today launched its weekly iron and folic acid supplementation (WIFS) campaign to combat anaemia.A spokesman of the National Rural Health Mission, Haryana, said today the campaign would be launched …
‘The tablet given under the WIFS programme is safe and efficacious’. The Centre on Monday claimed that adverse effects reported by children after consuming iron folic tablets under the Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) programme were ‘expected’ and, rather ‘less than expected’. However, “it is safe and efficacious,” it …
55,300 School Students In Karnataka To Get Tablets In Pilot Project Bangalore: Every Monday, children in all 55,300 government and aided schools in the state will be given iron and folic acid tablets. The Union health and family welfare ministry on Wednesday launched its pilot project in Karnataka to beat …
Campaign For Well-Being Of Newborns And Mothers Launching a campaign for maternal and child health here on Monday, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav blamed the previous government for not doing enough to improve health scenario in the state. Titled ‘Hausla’ (courage), the campaign aims to curb maternal, neonatal, infant and child …
Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation begins tomorrow In a major initiative to address adolescent anaemia, the government is launching a Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) Programme from Karnataka from Wednesday. Speaking to reporters here on Monday, Anuradha Gupta, Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission, said supervised Iron-Folic Acid (IFA) …
All the State governments in the northeast are likely to face a deduction of at least 7.5 per cent in Central funding under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), if New Delhi goes by its decision of reducing funding pattern. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is contemplating to …
Three out of every four estimated maternal deaths are not being reported in Madhya Pradesh, says a national rural health mission (NRHM) report presented at a regional workshop on maternal health, here on Tuesday. Poor reporting of medical termination of pregnancy (MPT) by the private practitioners is also an issue …
Were given iron and folic acid tablets at Fatehabad school Fourteen schoolchildren fell ill reportedly after consuming iron and folic acid tablets at the government school at Hukmanwali village in Fatehabad today. Sapna, Satbir Kaur, Luvpreet Kaur, Khushpreet Kaur, Jagdeep Singh, Nirmal Kaur, Padam Singh, Karamjit, Amritpal Kaur and Khushpreet …
The government today said no outbreak of any water, food or air-borne disease has been reported from the flood-affected areas of Uttarakhand. A three-member high-level committee from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is in Dehradun to review the public health situations with state health authorities. The team had …
Amid fears of disease outbreak after widespread devastation in flood-affected Uttarakhand, the Union health ministry has deputed a high-level team which will review the public health measures in the state tomorrow. The ministry said it was monitoring the situation and has initiated a few steps for relief operations that include …
The infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR) in 11 Maoist-hit districts including the Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput (KBK) region were alarming, Union health secretary Keshav Desiraju said. Balangir tops IMR, among the 11 districts, with 98 per 1,000 live births followed by Kandhamal at 86 against the state average of …
