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. …
In 2017, the Russian Federation (RF) is estimated to have the largest number of HIV-1 infected citizens of any country in Europe. Cumulative reported diagnoses reached over 1.16 million infections by mid-2017, and actual infections, including those that remain undiagnosed and/or unreported, are doubtless substantially higher. In contrast to the …
COIMBATORE:The city stands on top of the list when it comes to the number of people having health insurance cover, thanks to the growing awareness among citizens for quality healthcare and the new-age finance. According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-16, 75% of the surveyed households in the …
Most respondents felt there was a nexus between labs, doctors Close on the heels of Gurugram-based Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) allegedly overcharging the family of a seven-year-old dengue patient who died recently at the hospital, a survey conducted about the common man’s perception on “corruption” in the healthcare system …
Although significant progress has been made in reducing malaria transmission globally in recent years, a large number of people remain at risk and hence the gains made are fragile. Funding lags well behind amounts needed to protect all those at risk and ongoing contributions from major donors, such as the …
It started off with the Valentine's Day announcement capping stent prices. Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about it in his campaign speeches in Uttar Pradesh the next day. Advertisements with his pictures reiterating his resolve to cap stent prices appeared in national dailies and billboards across the country. Healthcare was …
India has been toying with the idea of UHC since 2011 when a high-level expert committee, formed by the erstwhile Planning Commission, submitted its report but nothing much came of it. The World Health Organisation is keen that India should have universal health coverage (UHC), newly elected director-general Dr Tedros …
The WHO Global Ministerial Conference “Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response” aims to accelerate implementation of the WHO End TB Strategy - with immediate action addressing gaps in access to care and the MDR-TB crisis - in order to reach the End TB targets set by …
NEW DELHI: The government has offered several exemptions under GST, including on direct sales to patients of imported life-saving medicines, subject to meeting certain conditions, besides clarifying that admission fee charged at "protected monuments" will not be subject to the levy. The government will also clarify that permanent transfer of …
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand government shut down its Mukhyamantri Swasthya Beema Yojna (MSBY), a health insurance scheme that provides cashless health benefits for its holders in case of hospitalisation in public as well as private hospitals, on Thursday. The CMO office in Dehradun has confirmed the roll back of the scheme to …
MUMBAI: The average time that India's neighbourhood doctors, called primary care consultants, spend with patients is a negligible two minutes. Neighbouring Bangladesh and Pakistan seem worse off, with the length of medical consultation averaging 48 seconds and 1.3 minutes, respectively, according to the largest international study on consulting time, published …
VADODARA: Instead of promoting medical tourism, Gujarat government's health department is promoting "medical terrorism", alleged city-based neurosurgeon Dr Amey Patankar, who had developed the neurosurgery department at state-run SSG Hospital, on Saturday. Launching a scathing attack on the administrators of state health department and SSG Hospital (SSGH), Patankar blamed them …
The government needs to spend 3.8 per cent of the GDP on health to meet the goal of universal health coverage (UHC). New data suggests India needs to do much more than it’s doing to meet UHC targets as promised under the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The National Health Policy-2017, …
This report focuses on what is now the single biggest cause of child deaths through infectious disease. Pneumonia is a disease of poverty. Fatalities are concentrated in the world’s poorest countries. Within those countries it is the poorest and most disadvantaged children who face the greatest risks. This report shows …
The researchers aimed to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the burden of group B Streptococcus (GBS), including invasive disease in pregnant and postpartum women, fetal infection/stillbirth, and infants. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis is the current mainstay of prevention, reducing early-onset infant disease in high-income contexts. Maternal GBS vaccines are in …
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in collaboration with the USAID on Thursday launched the Supportive Supervision Guidelines to promote quality healthcare delivery at all levels in the country. The Supportive Supervision Guidelines seeks to strengthen the relationship between practitioners, and improve services that would be provided to clients. This is …
They will be given fixed drug combinations on a daily basis Health Minister Malladi Krishna Rao on Wednesday inaugurated the daily regimen of administering medication to tuberculosis patients under the Revised National TB Control Programme at the Government General Hospital here. According to a release, under the new daily drug …
The projected expansion in Africa’s child population will necessitate an increase of more than 11 million skilled education and health personnel by 2030, if it is to keep pace with the continent’s unprecedented demographic transition, UNICEF said. Africa’s child population is projected to increase by 170 million between now and …
Donation of haematopoietic stem cells, either through bone marrow (BM) or peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collection, is a generally safe procedure for healthy donors, although side effects are a known risk. Previous research, including our recent quantitative study, has shown that the psychosocial response to donating is usually a …
