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. …
Studies have widely documented the socioeconomic inequalities in maternal and child health related outcomes in developing countries including India. However, there is limited research on the inequalities in advice provided by public health workers on maternal and child health during antenatal visits. This paper investigates the inequalities in advice provided …
The government has appealed to the junior doctors not to link the compulsory government service with guidelines issued by the Medical Council of India as both are different issues. K. Ratna Kishore, Principal Secretary, Health, Medical and Family Welfare, said here on Tuesday that the compulsory government service for one …
Accusing that the Planning Commission ignored suggestions of the Working Group while preparing the draft chapter on health, the Union health ministry has sent out its reservations and have suggested major changes in the health chapter to the Commission. In a recent communication to the Planning Commission, the health ministry …
Hazaribagh, July 29: A Hazaribagh NGO today launched a maiden scheme in the district and neighbouring Chatra, promising free healthcare to villagers in 28 blocks. Marksman Welfare Society, a city-based NGO, along with representatives of other organisations that it seeks to partner for Gramin Swasthya Sewa Pariyojna, inaugurated the project …
The goal of universal health care requires an overhaul of the public health system, medical education and regulatory mechanisms. At long last, public health is on the agenda of the country’s policy makers. The Prime Minister’s Republic Day speech mentioned that the Twelfth Plan would focus on health just as …
Uncontrolled medical treatment in Asia and Africa costs lives and money. David Peters and Gerald Bloom call for governments, firms and citizen groups to get involved.
Agency won’t wait any longer for govt sanction. The CBI is understood to have decided to file chargesheet against 22 officials in a case of fraud in the implementation of NRHM in Lucknow — without waiting for the state government’s sanction to prosecute them. Among the 22 officials of the …
The book highlights the challenges faced by users of the NRHM as well as those offering the delivery systems under the mission. IN 2005, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) launched its flagship programme for health for the rural poor promising, among other things, a complete architectural overhaul of the system. …
LUCKNOW: An NGO in Rae Bareli's Shivgarh area uses community mobilisation activities to save expectant mothers and neonates from untimely demise. Another met local religious leaders in western UP district to dispel myths relating to health. An organization funded by the US government is banking on mobile-savvy ASHAs for family …
LUCKNOW: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has detected anomalies of around Rs 5,000 crore in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in UP between 2007 and 2011 when the Bahujan Samaj Party was in power. The Akhilesh Yadav-led state government on Wednesday tabled in the assembly …
The report of the Hunger and Malnutrition Survey, which was conducted between October 2010 and February 2011 to assess the rate of under-nutrition among children under the age of fi ve in 100 focus districts of rural India, makes progress in measuring under-nutrition at the district level in some of …
There are limited data on interdistrict variations in child health status and health services utilization within the states of India. The researchers conducted this study to identify and understand district-wise variations in child morbidity, mortality, healthcare seeking, and the status of health facilities in India.
The lack of food is rapidly killing tribal children even before they reach six, leaving 51,461 malnoursihed children dead across rural Maharashtra between 2004 and 2012. The startling revelation has once again raised a debate within the government about the need to make higher allocations for the health, women and …
Two prestigious projects started with much fanfare by the Punjab government under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) have failed to take off. A community hotline started to report instances of female foeticide and give feedback regarding health services has been lying defunct for over two years now. The service, …
In Bihar, where Naxals often present obstacles before government projects involving roads, bridges and buildings, even of schools, one project has clicked remarkably well in the districts that these Naxals dominate. It is the showpiece health card scheme for children and adolescent girls, Nayi Pidhi Swasthya Guarantee Karyakram, which the …
Singh Sheds Mildness To Deliver Sharp Jab At CM In First UP Outing. Kanpur: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shed his aloofness here on Friday and threw sharp punches at the Mayawati government, charging it directly with misusing National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds and neglecting her state’s development. Mincing no …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday minced no words in accusing Mayawati government of misusing funds meant for the National Rural Health Mission. KANPUR: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday minced no words in accusing Mayawati government of misusing funds meant for the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Promising that …
The extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XXDR-TB) strain in 11 patients in the city has inadvertently highlighted the deplorable condition of hospitals treating the disease, giving them a new lease of life. The state government with help from the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to pump in Rs80 lakh …
New Delhi: The CAG of India has decided to audit the spending of all states under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scheme. After unearthing a Rs 5,754-crore NRHM scam in UP, the CAG will conduct independent audits of the scheme in 17 other states to ascertain losses to the …
Changmey health assistant Karma Wangdi has an old patient of his to see in the evening. His patient Sangpo, 58 from Kharmey under Shongphu gewog in Trashigang has been bed-ridden for almost a year following a stroke that left one side of his chest and an arm paralysed. He had …
