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. …
JAIPUR: A large number of people in the state still do not have access to proper medical facilities. About 16.5% deaths in 2016 occurred due to lack of qualified medical professionals, reveals a report. The situation is worse in rural areas where 19.1% deaths were due to "untrained functionaries," who …
PIL filed by the M/s. Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association in the the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh regarding the inadequate number of Community Health Centres (CHCs) and Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and lack of qualified medical professionals at …
JAIPUR: High migratory population in the state makes Rajasthan vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. But a matter of even more serious concern is that the percentage of women with comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS is quite low here. According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) -4 (2015-16), only 19.1% of women have …
The study covered 57,000 people across 15 states and Union Territories On an average, diabetes is twice as common in urban areas than in rural areas India — the world's diabetes capital — has to combat what health experts call a new and worrying trend: that poorer sections of people …
MUMBAI: The controversy-ridden state woman and child development department is back in the spotlight for floating a seemingly inflated Rs 100 crore scheme to fight malnourishment among children in rural Maharashtra. The scheme that envisages feeding children a pre-packed nutritious paste thrice a day for 72 days is being offered …
The state government has announced a programme - the Health Setu - to provide free medical treatemen in 10,000 villages across the state twice a week. Officials in the state health department said these are villages where good healthcare facilities are not available. Health Setu teams — each consisting of …
The Three Millennium Development Goal Fund (3MDG) handed over 15 rural health centres in the Ayeyarwady Region to the Health and Sports Ministry on Monday in support of the government’s move to improve access to healthcare in hard-to-reach areas. The five rural and 10 sub-rural health centres were handed over …
Ganga Das, 19 and pregnant for the first time, was determined enough to get her immunisation done at a Public Heath Centre (PHC) at Juri village of this block in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district. Married at the age of 17, Ganga's determination was a result of an equally determined effort …
A state-of the art health services bus would provide medical care to rural populace at their doorsteps. Designed through a donation of US$100,000 from philanthropists Raj and Bharati Shah of the US-based Capital Technology Information Services (CTIS), the mobile health and wellness clinic launched in Pune on Monday features advanced …
Aiming to provide healthcare to the most remote areas in the country by reducing "uncertainty" in electricity supply through solar solutions, a policy research institute has signed a pact with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Under the pact - 'Initiative on Solar for Healthcare' signed between ICMR and Council …
In Himachal Pradesh diabetes is spreading rapidly including rural area and most disturbing fact is the trend of shift of diabetes base to younger age and women as well. Despite Himachal Pradesh being an agrarian hilly state, diabetes is spreading rapidly and tribal areas were not an exception in reporting …
Nashik: The 24 rural hospitals in the district are struggling to get sufficient blood supply considering the shortage at the Nashik civil hospital. Rural hospitals, which generally gets patients for deliveries or from accidents, have begun referred to higher hospitals for want of blood. Senior officials of the Nashik civil …
Urban India is more sick than the rural hinterland despite the mushrooming of health and wellness clinics and super-specialty hospitals, besides better per capita earnings. And this could well be attributed to increasing pollution levels and unhealthy dietary habits. A government health survey has revealed that around 11.8% of urban …
80% not covered by any insurance, dependent on private sector for treatment. Over 80 per cent of India’s population is not covered under any health insurance scheme, says the latest National Sample Survey (NSS) released on Monday. The data reveals that despite seven years of the Centre-run Rashtriya Swasthya Bima …
Only 43 of the 89 government hospitals in southern Tamil Nadu use funds allocated for the government medical insurance scheme, while 25% funds allocated for development of these hospitals lie under-utilized. C Anandraj, a health rights activist and People's Watch, Tamil Nadu, which filed a RTI on the utility of …
Hypertension is an important public health challenge in both economically developing and developed countries. It is one of the risk factors for cardiovascular mortality. Data is available on hypertension in urban population but few studies are reported in rural areas. Materials and Methods. It was a community based cross-sectional study …
Though the Gujarat government claims to be giving incentives to doctors working in remote areas, the state is facing a shortage of specialists like gynecologists and paediatricians, to the extent that even BIMARU states -Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh -are better off with regard to healthcare facilities and …
The Rapid Survey on Children shows a new trend of an increased access to healthcare by marginalised communities like Dalits, Adivasis and Other Backward Classes which have made substantial gains in the last decade. However much needs to be achieved in the realm of nutrition and sanitation where these communities …
The provision of low-cost sanitary napkins to women in rural areas is not an answer to the myriad problems they face in menstrual management. Apart from the need for a mechanism for ensuring the quality of the products and reducing the environmental cost of non-reusable products, the need is for …
In what could pose a significant challenge for India to meet its ambitious target of ending AIDS by 2030, women continue to account for more than 40% of people living with HIV infection in the country . The share of women is crucial because of risk of transmission from pregnant …
