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. …
An engineer accused in the UP National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam was found shot through the head in his Lucknow home this morning. This is the fourth accused in the scam to have died under unusual circumstances. In an apparent “suicide note” left behind on the living room sofa …
A key accused in Uttar Pradesh's National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam has allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself dead, the police have said. Accused and project engineer Sunil Verma shot himself with his licenced revolver in his Vikas Nagar home, Lucknow at 8.30 am. He was rushed to a …
The CBI on Thursday registered three cases relating to alleged irregularities in the NRHM funds in Uttar Pradesh to the tune of Rs 250 crore. It booked IAS officer and the then Principal Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department of the State Pradeep Shukla and others and conducted …
The CBI, which is probing alleged irregularities in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam, made three more arrests —two bureaucrats and a businessman — and questioned four persons here on Friday. Those arrested are former DG of family welfare S P Ram, Uttar Pradesh Small Industries Corporation Ltd managing …
LUCKNOW: The draft report submitted by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) team after the National Rural Health Mission performance audit in the state reveals that about 27% of the total fund released by the Centre during the past four years did not reflect in the accounts of the state …
This paper presents primary data collected from two districts of Surat and Kutch in Gujarat and examines how and to what extent the decentralised system of governance has contributed to delivery of health services in rural areas of Gujarat. It finds several lacunae and shortcomings in the delivery by panchayati …
This paper presents primary data collected from two districts of Surat and Kutch in Gujarat and examines how and to what extent the decentralised system of governance has contributed to delivery of health services in rural areas of Gujarat. It finds several lacunae and shortcomings in the delivery by panchayati …
In a setback to the UP government, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the CBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the utilisation of funds and implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in the state since its inception in 2005-06. The court directed …
LUCKNOW: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) started its crackdown in the multi-thousand crore National Rural Health Mission scam by conducting search at ten leading eye hospitals in the city on Saturday. Sleuths faced initial resistance at some of these locations like Sunitra Eye Clinic on Hardoi Road in Thakurganj …
Gorakhpur: Some 25 kilometres from the main city, is a small village named Holiya. Not a single case of encephalitis was reported from this hamlet in the last two seasons. The changes were brought about by a locally active social group headed by paediatrician Dr RN Singh. With the help …
Microinsurance or Community-Based Health Insurance is a promising healthcare financing mechanism, which is increasingly applied to aid rural poor persons in low-income countries. Robust empirical evidence on the causal relations between Community-Based Health Insurance and healthcare utilisation, financial protection and other areas is scarce and necessary. This paper contains a …
PUNE: Some 40 years ago, a child suffering from diarrhoea at Jamkhed village of Ahmednagar district would have had little chance of survival. Not anymore. Sofiya Pathan, 65, never studied beyond Class IV, but she can save a child's life. Lilabai Amte, 65, too did not get much of an …
Srinagar: The state has received Rs 400 crore under the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) to improve the medical facilities in the rural areas, state Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma said today. “The focus is on augmenting the basic health infrastructure and reducing the mortality rate,” Sharma said at the …
Shillong, Sept. 16: The maxim — it’s never too late to learn — aptly applies to Meghalaya legislators who were sensitised with the fundamentals of the flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in an animated interactive programme held here today. The venue — Hotel Pine-wood — resembled a legislature, where …
ALLAHABAD: The absence of adequate funds under National Rural Health Mission has taken toll on various projects like CCSP training and School Health Programme. The worst part is that female AYUSH doctors and data operators, working at primary and community health centres have not been paid their salaries for the …
The government is drawing up a five-year health plan with focus on strengthening rural health care and bringing down the death rate of newborns and their mothers. Mamata Banerjee, who holds the health portfolio, went to the health headquarters in Salt Lake today to be briefed by officials about “Plan …
The rates of maternal and infant mortality have improved only marginally, according to the latest Sample Registration System. THE country's largest demographic sample survey, covering 1.4 million households and a population of 7.01 million, during the period 2007-09, says that there was only a mild improvement in the infant mortality …
Bhopal: Bureaucratic indecision has resulted in the wastage of medicines worth Rs 27 lakh. The medicines bought about three years ago were meant for the rural poor undergoing treatment at Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad government hospital. Sources said a huge consignment of medicines, now past their expiry date, is lying in …
Calcutta, Aug. 7: The hospital chain run by cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty has submitted a detailed proposal to the Mamata Banerjee government for the development of crucial infrastructure now missing in rural hospitals. The blueprint proposes to set up dialysis units, diagnostic laboratories, cardiac catheterisation laboratories and coronary care units …
The Uttar Pradesh government has served chargesheet to three senior officials of Department of Family Welfare for alleged irregularities in awarding contracts to Uttar Pradesh Small Industries Corporation Limited (UPSICL) under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Former Director General (Family Welfare) Dr S P Ram, former Director (Family Welfare) …
