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. …
BHUBANESWAR: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has recommended that the implementation of the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme should be fully offloaded from the teachers to give them adequate time for teaching activities. In its latest report, the CAG has exposed several loopholes in the execution of the …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as 30 PHCs are functioning through public-private partnership (PPP) mode across the State, National Rural Health Mission has decided to increase the number of PHCs soon. The Mission Directorate has received around 500 proposals from various voluntary organisations which are being examined. Starting of laundry activities, cleaning and …
Health care facilities in the tea gardens of Assam are set to receive a major boost with the Government launching a private-public participation scheme under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to improve the condition of the hospitals of the gardens. More than 150 gardens of Assam have already signed …
HERALD CORRESPONDENT CANACONA, JAN 20 Union Health Minister Dr Ambhumani Ramadoss has stated that Rs 13 crore has been allocated to the State government to attend health needs of the State, as part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in association with the district administration and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) will implement a unique SAFE I- Project, said District Collector M Beena at a press conference here on Friday. The novel project aims at bringing down hospital-borne infections by ensuring safe …
Dismissing media reports on school girls in Barabanki falling sick after given deworming tablets, mission director, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) Rajiv Kapoor said that the government had no intention to recall the Saloni
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) proposes to bring down child and mother mortality rates. Child mortality rate stands at 44 per thousand (within one year) and 40 per thousand (within one month) while mother mortality rules at 228 per one lakh in the district. The NRHM plans to bring down …
The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, a global network of policy-makers, researchers, and civil society organisations brought together by the World Health Organisation, has made vital recommendations ( www.who.int) that can help countries at various levels of development reduce the gap in health care. The key message from the …
HALF-HEARTEDLY, after months of discussions and negotiations, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala has launched a modified version of the Central government
Hyderabad, Oct. 20: People of the state are still unable to get iodised cooking salt of proper standards that helps fight goitre, retardation in children and reproductive failure in females. Health experts are sad that even on Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Day, which falls on October 21, no thought is …
UDHAMPUR, Sep 18: The District Development Commissioner, Udhampur, Ajay Khajuria has called upon the Doctors, Para-medical staff and NGOs related with National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to put in their coordinated and sincere efforts in providing best health care facilities to patients especially in rural and remote pockets of the …
The failure of decentralisation, the lack of inter-sectoral coordination, and the undermining of traditional health support are the reasons why the National Rural Health Mission has not delivered what it had set out to achieve.
Meena Menon Community-based monitoring has laid bare the inadequacies of the primary health care system in Maharashtra. Sayvan primary health centre (PHC), a little over 100 km from Mumbai, is a study in neglect. Far removed from the city
BARAMULLA, July 27: To review the implementation of Rural Health Mission in Baramulla district, a meeting of concerned officers was held here yesterday with Secretary Health and Medical Education Department Atal Dullu in chair. It was given out that out of Rs. 6.22 crore received under the programme during last …
