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 …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Health Department has started a threeday polio eradication campaign in the Capital city by way of mass administration of diethyl carbomazine (DEC) drug among the people under the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. The campaign was launched by Health Minister Prasanna Acharya by administering the dose along with albendazole …
Mumbai: This monsoon, all schoolchildren have been forewarned and are forearmed for the rains. At the Monsoon and Child Health, a monsoon preparation campaign conducted by Billabong High International School, Santa Cruz, Dr Bhupendra Awasthi meted out advice to students about how to avoid falling ill this monsoon. “Apply mosquito …
To prevent malaria from spreading in the city, an awareness camp was organised in the Mauli Jagran colony on Wednesday. District Family Officer Dr Rajiv Vadhera, while inaugurating the camp, said there was an urgent need to involve people in the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme. Malaria and State …
The main objectives of the TSC are: Bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas; Accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to access to toilets to all by 2012; Motivate communities and Panchayati Raj Institutions promoting sustainable sanitation facilities through awareness creation and health …
Mumbai: When 65-year-old author Vineet Madhavan (name changed) recently underwent a liver function test, the doctors suspected something amiss. A few more tests confirmed that Madhavan had contracted hepatitis C. The only reason Madhavan could think of for contracting the disease was a visit to the dentist. An elderly woman …
When India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Ketan Desai, the president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and president-elect of the World Medical Association, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 20 million Indian rupees from the vice-president of a medical college and hospital in the Punjab state, few …
The medical education system in India may be on the verge of collapse. An exploding number of medical colleges; a skewed distribution of these around the country; devaluation of merit in admissions, particularly in private institutions - all contribute to this gloomy picture.
In 1860, two young women held a long discussion on their career prospects in the small southern English town of Hitchens. “I must devote myself to securing the higher education while you open the medical profession to women,” Emily Davies told Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Five years later Anderson started practising …
Union human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday announced that health and wellness clubs will be set up in all the schools of the Central Board of Secondary Education as part of the
The Madhya Pradesh State AIDS Control Committee organised a two-day workshop for representatives of Industry Department on the prevention of AIDS. The workshop was divided into seven segments. Committee's consultant Suneela Sharma made a presentation on AIDS prevention and taking care of AIDS patients and detailed discussions were held on …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today signed an MoU with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) for establishment of an Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) in Orissa. It has agreed to provide 40 acres of land free of cost in Kumarabasta village near Bhubaneswar in Khurda district for the …
The monthlong Maharashtra leg of the Red Ribbon Express, which was flagged off from Delhi last year, will begin on Monday with the train painted yellow and red chugging into Amalner station in Jalgaon. An awareness and training campaign of the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) and Indian Railways, the …
New Delhi: In a bid to instil civic sense in Delhiites and make Delhi cleaner ahead of the Commonwealth Games 2010, the MCD is going to launch a campaign from Tuesday to raise awareness against spitting, urinating and littering in public places. The civic body has created a series of …
The HIV/AIDS situation in Assam presents a mixed picture, with better monitoring and care in place, but awareness continuing to be low in most parts of the State. There remains little scope for complacency in such a context. Revealing this at a press conference held in the city on the …
As the number of swine flu cases escalate in the national Capital, the Delhi government plans to spread more awareness about the H1N1 virus with a slew of ads in newspapers in the coming week. The total number of confirmed cases of swine flu in Delhi till Saturday was 4,454, …
An Act to provide for the constitution of the National Council for Human Resources in Health for prescribing standards with a view to the proper planning and co-ordinated development of medical and allied health education throughout the country, the promotion of qualitative improvement of such education in relation to planned …
Notwithstanding the sustained campaigns launched by the Government to create awareness about AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome), the number of AIDS cases is on rise in Himachal Pradesh. At present there were 3,530 HIV positive cases (detected till March 2009) of which 608 were full blown AIDS cases. The Government …
