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. …
Irregularities surfacing in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Uttar Pradesh seems to have come as a wake up call for Himachal Pradesh. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, who presided over a meeting of NRHM on Thursday, directed the health officials to ensure that the services provided under the …
It’s a village of 250-odd houses, mostly farming families. The population is around 1,000. People here may be born healthy but, chances are, many will die crippled. Most adults have deformed limbs, making it very difficult to walk, sit on the ground or work in the fields. They are all …
Pakistan’s Lady Health Workers’ programme has trained over 1,00,000 women to provide community health services in rural areas. Not only has the programme revitalised the primary health care system, it has also helped overcome the gendered division of public and private space that is a major obstacle to women’s access …
What happens when villagers are allowed to monitor their local public health facilities? India’s National Rural Health Mission is making such accountability a reality through its community-based monitoring initiative. This article presents the first three rounds of data collected by village health committee members in Maharashtra’s 225 pilot villages. The …
Shillong, July 17: Villagers of Khliehriat, a civil subdivision under Jaintia Hills district, about 100km from here, did not know about the existence of the National Family Benefit Scheme, though the same had been introduced throughout the country by the Centre since August 15, 1995, till they were enligtened about …
Chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee, who is also looking after health and family affairs department, has decided to frame a new health policy within three months keeping in mind the upgrade of infrastructure of state-run medical colleges and rural hospitals. Senior health officials said that as health has been a …
BHAWANIPATNA: The benefits under the Rashtriya Suraksha Bima Yojana (RSBY) have failed to trickle down to the beneficiaries the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. Though launched as a pilot project in Kalahandi in November 2009, poor management and lack of awareness among the BPL beneficiaries have marred the cashless treatment …
Planning Commission member Syeda Hameed today said it had been her decision to include human rights activist Binayak Sen in the steering committee for health for the 12th Plan. Hameed heads the committee.
Skinny and visibly weak, 39- year-old Rajkumar Haribhajan Patil had been suffering from contractions in the chest, and feeling panicky and restless for the past five years. In January 2010, he suffered severe palpitations and was rushed to a private clinic in Warud, in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district. Doctors diagnosed him …
Rapid urbanisation of rural India is steadily pushing the common man’s aspiration levels. Increase in stress and forced lifestyle changes have offered the most conducive base for the rise and rise of hypertension, say doctors and researchers. Achieving a clear perspective on the country’s health, particularly its rural part, is …
It was once associated with the rich and urban. Today, hypertension is fast spreading in rural India. This is a cause for concern because hypertension, if not checked, can lead to heart and kidney diseases. Healthcare facilities are already poor in villages, where nearly three-fourths of Indians live. For the …
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was introduced in 2005 in 18 states of the country including Rajasthan. The main focus of the mission was to provide effective healthcare to rural population in the states which have weak public health indicators or weak infrastructure. The goals of the mission include, …
While the Medical Council of India has refused to notify the proposed Bachelor of Rural Health Care course, the government is considering several other options
Not only urbanites but tribals from far Nicobar Islands are also falling prey to lifestyle diseases such as high blood pressure and obesity. A study published in the latest edition of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR
New Delhi: The Public Accounts Committee came down heavily on the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) on Thursday, even describing it as a fiasco. In a report to Parliament, the PAC also asked health ministry to carry out a complete reappraisal and restructuring of the project. PAC chief and BJP …
Chandigarh To involve private sector in healthcare, the Uttaranchal government has struck a public-private partnership deal. Under the deal, Chandiarh-based Rahi Care has been entrusted upon to set up a state-of-the-art nephrology (dialysis) centre at Base Hospital, Haldwani. Government sources said that
New Delhi In what would come as a shot in the arm for rural healthcare, the government is planning to form a chain of over 8,000 drug retail outlets spread across the length and breadth of the country to take affordable medicine to the hinterlands. The plan is to set …
Projections of the incidence of cancer serve several purposes. These range from making investment decisions on cancer treatment facilities and planning manpower requirements, to formulation and evaluation of policies for control of cancer. Different statistical methods can be used for such projections. In recent years, these have been translated to …
