Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent an indispensable force with which to combat inequities in access to health services and progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Integrated Child Development Services Scheme, 29/07/2016. Ministry of Women and Child Development is administering the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme, a Centrally Sponsored Scheme. The scheme aims at holistic development of children below 6 years of age and pregnant women & lactating mothers …
The Indian traditional medicine (TM) has a rich heritage of science healing humans and animals. While so much attention is being paid to regulation of biomedicine (BM) practice and research, the same is desirable for TM too. The existing guidelines and regulations related to natural products/herbal formulations should be implemented …
China needs to further reform its health system with a number of critical steps to meet the growing health needs of the population and further control spending increases, despite impressive achievements in healthcare reform and rapid progress toward universal health coverage. These include systemic and institutional reform and innovation, adoption …
China needs to further reform its health system with a number of critical steps to meet the growing health needs of the population and further control spending increases, despite impressive achievements in healthcare reform and rapid progress toward universal health coverage. These include systemic and institutional reform and innovation, adoption …
DEHRADUN: With dengue claiming its first victim in Uttarakhand, the citizens are a worried lot. The tech-savvy youngsters have taken to smartphone apps to create awareness and keep the disease at bay. Some of the popular apps smartphone users are downloading include 'Dengue fever information' and 'India fights Dengue'. The …
Guwahati: The Kamrup district administration on Monday launched a monitoring basis evaluation system for Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). As of Monday, over 11 cases of JE and 33 cases of AES have been reported from Kamrup district so far. The programme aims at combatting the scourge …
MARGAO: A survey was recently conducted by the Curtorim primary health centre (PHC) under the supervision and guidance of the directorate of health services (DHS), national vector borne disease control programme (NVBDCP) chief medical officer, Dr Chandrakant Parab. "This survey revealed that there are a lot of mosquito breeding sites …
Cancer cases witnessed an alarming increase since 2011 in Jammu and Kashmir, the Minister for Health and Medical Education Department Bali Bhagat said today. Replying to a question in the Legislative Council by Zafar Iqbal Manhas, the minister said there were 4,556 cases recorded during 2011 which witnessed an increase …
Itanagar : There has been a sharp rise in the number of dengue cases in Arunachal Pradesh since the disease was detected first in 2012. In 2015, a total of 1996 dengue cases were detected while the number of dengue cases in the previous year (2014) was only 27, informed …
With the aim of combating deadly disease dengue, hundreds of schoolchildren today participated in an awareness rally organised by the ATS Rotary Club in collaboration with the Health Department. NK Sharma, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, flagged off the rally from the Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi. Children marched through streets and markets …
Diabetes cases up to 422 million worldwide; India ranks among top 3 countries with diabetic population. After tightening laws on tobacco and alcohol, experts now want a high tax on sugary drinks as they cause a sugar high that leads to insulin resistance. Ahead of World Health Day (April 7), …
Google India in partnership with Apollo Hospitals announced a new feature that shows disease information in a card-like format. Google India in partnership with Apollo Hospitals today announced a new feature on search that shows disease information in a card-like format right on top of results. The cards will appear …
In an unprecedented move, nearly 653 doctors of India and office bearers of medical societies all across India have urged the Prime Minister to implement the new set of pictorial warnings from April 1. Doctors have recommended that warning on tobacco products should be 85%. These doctors are the witness …
Recent studies conducted between December 2015 and March 2016 by the PGIMER, Chandigarh, has found that pictorial health warnings on packs of tobacco products do motivate people to quit. Vini Mahajan, Principal Secretary, Health, said, “The study has thrown up interesting data, including the data regarding impact of pictorial health …
The Health Department is all set to galvanise its machinery to counter the vector-borne diseases. It will observe every Friday as Health Dry Day during which the public will be sensitised to cleaning their water storage tanks, coolers and others things. Interestingly, officials of the Health Department will also clean …
NEW DELHI: To step up preparedness against swine flu or H1N1 influenza, the Centre issued advisories to states on Tuesday asking them to take proactive measures and strengthen the awareness campaign to tackle the disease. Health minister J P Nadda held a high-level meeting to review preparedness to tackle the …
Distribution Of Iron Supplement To Get A Fillip One out of two adolescent girls suffers from anaemia in India, which has the world's largest adolescent population. Besides, 30% or one of every three young boy in the country is also anaemic putting a large chunk of the country's young population …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Prem Dhingra Vs. M/s Advance Medical Science and Education Society & Ors. dated 17/12/2015 regarding deviations in the construction of a medical college and hospital at Kolar, Madhya Pradesh. NGT directs Advance Medical Science and Education …
Successive Governments of India have promised to transform India's unsatisfactory health-care system, culminating in the present government's promise to expand health assurance for all. Despite substantial improvements in some health indicators in the past decade, India contributes disproportionately to the global burden of disease, with health indicators that compare unfavourably …
New Delhi: A study has concluded that nearly one out of every four dengue patients (23.2%) administered platelet transfusion during the 2013 outbreak at AIIMS did not need it. The department of transfusion medicine at the hospital conducted this study on 531 dengue patients, including 376 men and 155 women. …
