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. …
The health ministry is planning to screen all people aged 30-40 in rural areas for lifestyle diseases like diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday. Noting that there has been an increase in cases of noncommunicable diseases like cancer, cardio-vascular diseases and diabetes, Mr Azad at the …
NEW DELHI: Workers of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) who are involved in reproductive health care of women and children in the rural areas will now be trained for the multi-drug resistant tuberculosis eradication programme in North-East Delhi. Under the DOTS-Plus (Direct Observation Treatment-Plus) scheme, ASHA workers will be trained …
The Maoists have been at the helm of the movement in Lalgarh right from its inception. Even as they organised the resistance to state repression, they put in place, at a rudimentary level, an alternative programme of development based on the people
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, a mega health camp was organised by Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) here on Sunday. The camp was aimed at treating and providing medical attention to inhabitants of the town besides an open invitation to all residents of peripheral villages. Over 40 …
About 90 kilometres from Pune, Salungan village in Bhor taluka has a population of about 300 people. Add to this the families living in the 35 villages surrounding the area, and the total population easily crosses a few thousands. Yet, there are no medical facilities to speak of, with the …
The district administration has finally given approval to upgrade the health infrastructure in rural Islamabad and increase the emoluments and incentives for the medical staff working in the health centres and units of the rural areas. District Health Department Islamabad has prepared a comprehensive health package for the rural areas …
New Delhi: The government is facing financial crunch and has to borrow massively from the market to meet its budget deficit, but an audit of one of its social sector schemes that has more than Rs 25,000 crore riding on it has found large amounts unspent. The latest audit report …
THE West Bengal government on Wednesday passed the controversial Rural Health Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 in the state assembly by majority vote. In doing so, the state government created a precedence in the sense that it over-ruled thereby the collective decision that was taken by the Left Front to send …
The performance of the flagship health programme especially for the vulnerable section of the society, the National Rural Health Mission in the State has come under the scanner of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. A stand-alone performance audit report has pointed out several irregularities in fund management …
The second phase of Red Ribbon Express, a 10-coach exhibition train for creating awareness about HIV/AIDS in farflung areas of the country, was flagged-off on Tuesday by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The express is aimed at creating awareness about HIV/AIDS. Speaking on the occasion, Ms Gandhi said that it is …
Most of the interior areas of Sonitpur district, which have been identified as endemic to malaria and diarrhoea, have been provided with the 108 (Mrityunjoy) services for which people of these interior areas have benefited a great deal. This was stated by the Joint Director, Health, Sonitpur district, Bireswar Kalita. …
This paper investigates household demand for health care and willingness to pay (WTP) for publicly provided health care services, based on primary survey data from rural West Bengal. Contingent valuation techniques were adopted to elicit WTP amounts for malaria and diarrhoea, the most prevalent severe morbidities in the study area.
More than 5,000 women die every year in Gujarat due to pregnancy complications in remote and tribal areas. The state, which faces an acute shortage of qualified gynaecologists in public health facilities, devised the Chiranjeevi Yojana wherein women below poverty line can go to empanelled private nursing homes at the …
The Swiss government has agreed to provide Rs 292 million for the Rural Health Development Project (RHDP) phase VII, reports RSS. Finance Ministry joint secretary Lal Mani Joshi and Elisabeth Von Capeller of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) signed the agreement at the Finance Ministry. Six phases of …
Satyasundar Barik BHUBANESWAR: This was the last thing that the Orissa government needed. Swine flu scare which has so far been limited to urban centres of the State has now surfaced in rural region. Two suspected swine flu affected students staying in a tribal residential school in Sundargarh district have …
Assuming almost epidemic proportions in southern Bihar, cerebral malaria has caused the death of 34 children in Gaya district in a month while 115 children are undergoing treatment for the disease at a hospital there. The death of 34 children at the Anugraha Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) …
