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 encephalitis dance of death in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar’s bordering districts looks set to cross all previous records this year. With 2-3 weeks still left in the ‘season’, the country-wide death toll is nearing the 1,000-mark, of which UP itself has a staggering toll of nearly 500. More …
B K Chaturvedi committee’s recommendations may form part of the final 12th Plan document. One common complaint that most states aired at the just-concluded National Development Council meeting was the inflexibility of certain centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS) when it came to addressing local requirements. This was against the backdrop of a …
District panchayat plans 543 new schemes The District Planning Committee (DPC) of the Thiruvananthapuram district panchayat has approved projects worth Rs.121.70 crore for 2011-12, district panchayat president Remani P. Nair said here on Wednesday. This included 543 new projects to be implemented in the service, health, infrastructure development, agriculture, production, …
A sharp increase in number of dengue patients has been witnessed in the recent days, even as Health Minister Rao Narender Singh today claimed that the government had taken steps to control dengue and other vector-borne diseases in the state. He said the Dengue Diagnostic Test Kits were being provided …
Though the methodology for determining the poor would be based on the socio-economic caste census being undertaken by the Rural Development Ministry, the (Suresh) Tendulkar poverty line would remain a relevant reference point “to see how development is helping to take more and more individuals above a fixed line over …
SHILLONG: The State Health Department through the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is all set to conduct the Measles Catch-Up Campaign targeting to provide mass vaccination to more than 6 lakhs children (from 9 months of age to 10 years) covering 93-99 per cent of the population especially in the …
Describing female foeticide as a grave challenge, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said information, education and communication (IEC) could play a role in building a positive environment for valuing the girl child, particularly at the grassroots level. He said the Centre had decided to …
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 …
For promising results, renewed commitment of another seven years essential An official review of the Union Government's ambitious National Rural Health Mission has described it as a “minor success”, adding that the results have been heartening compared to past experience in public health programmes. If this promising programme is not …
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 …
Itanagar: Infectious diseases afflicting people in remote areas of the Northeast are not only a problem for the humans, they also indirectly affect the wildlife in sanctuaries. A study conducted by the Bangalore-based National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) has revealed how malaria among the staff in the Pakke Tiger …
Out of 102,692 children aged zero to six, 779 are in severe malnutrition category Four-year-old Pravin Maskare has spent a fortnight at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Gondia where his weight increased to 8.3 kg. Even that is far from the ideal, but his mother is unwilling to let …
Guwahati: Assam health department will launch an experimental adult vaccination drive as a preventive against deadly Japanese encephalitis in Sivasagar district of Assam, according to Assam Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sharma. He said Assam would be the first state in the country to go for adult vaccination against the …
SRINAGAR: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Tuesday flagged the importance of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) terming it a core programme to universalize health care facilities for women and children. Expressing satisfaction over the performance registered under NRHM in the State during last couple of years, the Chief Minister said …
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 …
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 …
The country’s first-ever district-level health survey has placed smaller states, including Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, on the top for most of the health indicators surveyed and Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh at the bottom. It finds neonatal mortality as the biggest challenge as seven out of every 10 infant …
Kolkata The Centre has finally granted West Bengal a special area package of R8,750 crore, but together with allocations the entire financial assistance adds up to R21,614 crore for the state. According to finance department officials, although the package shows a whopping R21,614 crore, real assistance has been to the …
A special audit of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in the state, conducted by the Finance department of the UP government, has found that 988 ambulances for the Emergency Medical Transport Service (EMTS) were purchased at a higher cost from Tata Motors than the rate offered by another company, …
