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. …
About 47,523 villagers of Gumla, Khunti, Simdega and Ranchi reaped benefits today when Governor K. Sankaranarayanan distributed assets, both individual and community, worth Rs 865.38 crore during the fifth and last Vikas Mela of the season at Morabadi grounds in Ranchi. Sankaranarayanan also handed over 1,600 appointment letters to those …
Karthik Madhavan The nurse who was visiting the PHC at Devarmalai a few months ago has stopped coming Locked: The Primary Health Sub-Centre at Devarmalai in Bargur Hills has not been functioning properly for the past few months forcing villagers to go down plains to the Government Hospital in Anthiyur.
Anita Joshua NEW DELHI: The Government is planning to make diabetes and hypertension check-ups mandatory for rural India. This was disclosed here on Sunday by Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad while addressing the SAARC Diabetes Conference. Formulating scheme According to Mr. Azad, his ministry was …
Ambedkar villages will be lit up with sodium lights as Chief Minister Mayawati has asked the officials concerned to install 10,000 sodium bulbs in these villages besides setting up 2,000 Ambedkar Community centres in the villages. The Chief Minister has also asked the officials to implement government schemes in the …
Even as delayed monsoons and subsequent floods hit Assam, over 2 lakh flood vulnerable people living in the saporis or river islands of the Brahmaputra have been covered with sustained health care for the first time in their lives by the
New Delhi: The Centre is mulling health insurance cover for all NREGA workers, a move which may incur a huge recurring expenditure on UPA, but also holds the potential to deepen
Significant milestones have been achieved by the National Rural Health Mission in Assam, but arduous hurdles have to be crossed before improved healthcare becomes accessible to all. The NRHM that was launched in 2005 started its initiatives a few months late and till date has spent substantial funds for the …
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 24 A community survey of a village in central Kerala has returned a prevalence estimate of 14.6 per cent for type-2 diabetes, one of the highest prevalence rates reported in any Indian State. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in rural India falls in a broad range of 0.8 …
Poor get free healthcare "When we came to power five years back, we decided to place the health and family welfare sector on the top of our priorities. These efforts have brought a sea change. The shortage of medicines, doctors and other state stall" is now a thing of the …
The Madhya Pradesh Government has decided to spend Rs 962 crores on health services in rural areas this year. Out of the amount Rs 406.10 crore would be spent on maternity and child health, Rs 264.40 crore on National Rural Health Mission programmes, and Rs 55.20 crore on pulse polio …
Two doctors fell in love, married and went on to heal a village in Maharashtra. Their services are now emulated by the National Health Mission.. Taru Bahl About 200 km from the bustling IT city of Pune lays a village strategically located at the boundary of four districts
At Mohali and Patiala, these vehicles have not even moved from the spot where they were parked for the past several months. In Barnala, Bathinda and Faridkot, where more than one MMU has been provided, only one is functional as there is not enough staff to man other vehicles. Chandigarh, …
KOHIMA, July 12: Nagaland Government said they have received over Rs 100 crore from the Centre under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in the past three years. "In the last three years, we have received more than Rs 100 crore from the Centre under NHRM. The State has received …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has recommended an in-depth review of 20 innovative schemes being implemented by States and Union Territories (UT) under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) for scaling up and replication. The term
The pro-poor and pro-rural Budget has got a thumbs- up from farm economists, farmer leaders and agriculturists in the region. Hailing the Budget for its approach towards the
Pepsi, which was founded and marketed by a pharmacist as a digestive syrup, is revisiting its roots with an ultra-cheap softdrink that will aid the fight against anaemia in women in rural India. The product expected to be launched as early as next year may cost just Re 1 or …
In the context of growing recognition of health as a vital component of human capital and the need for evolving sustainable health care system (HCS), an epidemiologic study was conducted in an area in rural AP in 2006. The empirical results show a higher level of sickness than at the …
