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. …
INDORE: Under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the state going to conduct health screening of kids up to the age of 18 years from July 1. The programme will be known National Child Health Programme in which health problems such as birth defect, deficiency, development delay and disability will be …
Diabetes has become one of the leading public health issues in the country. The Government of India has a strong commitment to tackle this challenge through the National Program on Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) programme. A strong need was being felt to understand …
LUCKNOW: The Government of India has earmarked a sum of Rs 3,043.88 crores to the Uttar Pradesh government for implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in financial year 2013-14. The amount is about 12% more than what was allocated last year. Officials in the state health department informed …
Haryana will suspend its Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) Programme for the summer vacation following reports of schoolchildren becoming ill after the administering of iron and folic acid tablets over the past few weeks. Even as a Government of India team led by the programme manager of the …
Despite not ranking high in health indicators, Orissa was the star at the recently held first ever workshop of state health secretaries on National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) with spotlight on the state's public-private partnership in health sector. Keeping political differences aside, the UPA government felt the model was worth …
Fatehabad/Sirsa, May 23 The weekly iron and folic acid supplementation programme of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is facing roadblocks in Ratia block of Fatehabad due to recent incidents of schoolchildren falling ill after consuming iron and folic acid pills though the scheme is running well in rest of …
New buildings will be constructed for the 139 health sub-centres in Tamil Nadu under the National Rural Health Mission. The project would provide buildings for sub-centres in remote areas where the existing structures were found to be unsuitable for use. A sum of Rs 20.91 crores was sanctioned by the …
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha will implement the Union government-sponsored National Urban Health Mission in the state from September, government sources said. Odisha-specific diseases such as sickle-cell and flourosis will be prime focus of NUHM, which will run parallel to the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Gradually, NUHM and NRHM will merge under …
After bandying its Rs 6,000-crore a year scheme to provide free generic drugs at government health centres and hospitals for a year, the health ministry has now shelved the plan. The reasons are financial constraints and its inability to get in place a drug procurement policy in the last 18 …
For the fourth consecutive day today, schoolchildren were rushed to hospitals with complaints of nausea and vomiting after they were given iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets supplied by the Health Department. As many as 15 students from Government Middle School at Hamzapur village in Fatehabad were rushed to the …
Scheme To Be Launched From July 15, Will Cover 9 To 18-Yr-Olds New Delhi: Alarmed at the results of a survey of government school students that found 20% of them suffering from anaemia, Delhi government is set to launch Centre’s WIFS (Weekly Iron and Folic acid Supplementation programme) in all …
JAIPUR: The districts in Udaipur division have reported a significant decline in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). Most of these divisions are tribal areas and were placed in the high-focused districts by the medical, health and family welfare department. According to the Annual Health Survey 2011-12 which was released in …
Slum-dwellers in cities will now be able to avail health facilities Urban poor, especially those living in slums, will now have access to primary healthcare services in cities and towns with the Cabinet recently approving the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) to function as a sub-mission under the overarching National …
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Rs. 22,507-crore National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that seeks to address healthcare challenges in towns and cities with focus on urban poor. The scheme will now be introduced as a sub-mission under the National Health Mission (NHM). The mission will be implemented in …
A package for Attappadi tribal hamlets is likely to take a final shape in Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, after several deaths due to malnutrition were reported from the area. The package would be finalized after ministers for health, and social welfare and scheduled tribes will submit a comprehensive report to the …
Two babies die on Tuesday; number of deaths touches 27 Three more tribal children died from malnutrition in the Attappady hills, taking the number of such deaths to 27 in the past 15 months. The baby of Meenakshi and Nagan of Edavani, a Kurumba tribal hamlet in the Pudur grama …
As high out-of-pocket healthcare expenses pose heavy financial burden on the families, Government of India is considering a variety of financing and delivery options to universalize health care services. Hence, an estimate of the cost of delivering universal health care services is needed.
Mission’s term can be extended depending on the results With the problem of malnourishment in children assuming alarming proportions, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up a State Nutrition Mission to tackle the problem more effectively. The mission will be patterned on the one in Maharashtra with a …
M. Konyak, a farmer from Shanghah village of Mon — a remote district in Nagaland — is currently undergoing treatment for drug-resistant TB at the Civil Hospital in Mon town. His village is a long way from the clinic and so each month, he has to take a bus early …
Jaipur: Despite tall claims by the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Rajasthan on strategies to dispose of bio-medical waste, successive (3rd, 4th and 5th) Common Review Mission (CRM) reports have highlighted the state’s lackadaisical approach towards handling bio-medical waste. Even the largest state-run facility SMS Hospital that is located in …
