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. …
After bandying its Rs 6,000-crore a year scheme to provide free generic drugs at government health centres and hospitals for a year, the health ministry has now shelved the plan. The reasons are financial constraints and its inability to get in place a drug procurement policy in the last 18 …
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha will implement the Union government-sponsored National Urban Health Mission in the state from September, government sources said. Odisha-specific diseases such as sickle-cell and flourosis will be prime focus of NUHM, which will run parallel to the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Gradually, NUHM and NRHM will merge under …
For the fourth consecutive day today, schoolchildren were rushed to hospitals with complaints of nausea and vomiting after they were given iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets supplied by the Health Department. As many as 15 students from Government Middle School at Hamzapur village in Fatehabad were rushed to the …
Scheme To Be Launched From July 15, Will Cover 9 To 18-Yr-Olds New Delhi: Alarmed at the results of a survey of government school students that found 20% of them suffering from anaemia, Delhi government is set to launch Centre’s WIFS (Weekly Iron and Folic acid Supplementation programme) in all …
JAIPUR: The districts in Udaipur division have reported a significant decline in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). Most of these divisions are tribal areas and were placed in the high-focused districts by the medical, health and family welfare department. According to the Annual Health Survey 2011-12 which was released in …
Slum-dwellers in cities will now be able to avail health facilities Urban poor, especially those living in slums, will now have access to primary healthcare services in cities and towns with the Cabinet recently approving the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) to function as a sub-mission under the overarching National …
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Rs. 22,507-crore National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that seeks to address healthcare challenges in towns and cities with focus on urban poor. The scheme will now be introduced as a sub-mission under the National Health Mission (NHM). The mission will be implemented in …
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been bringing out a regular publication titled `Rural Health Statistics in India’ providing detailed statistics on rural health infrastructure and manpower in order to cater to the needs of health planners, policy makers, other government and non-government organizations and research institutions working …
A package for Attappadi tribal hamlets is likely to take a final shape in Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, after several deaths due to malnutrition were reported from the area. The package would be finalized after ministers for health, and social welfare and scheduled tribes will submit a comprehensive report to the …
Two babies die on Tuesday; number of deaths touches 27 Three more tribal children died from malnutrition in the Attappady hills, taking the number of such deaths to 27 in the past 15 months. The baby of Meenakshi and Nagan of Edavani, a Kurumba tribal hamlet in the Pudur grama …
Mission’s term can be extended depending on the results With the problem of malnourishment in children assuming alarming proportions, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up a State Nutrition Mission to tackle the problem more effectively. The mission will be patterned on the one in Maharashtra with a …
M. Konyak, a farmer from Shanghah village of Mon — a remote district in Nagaland — is currently undergoing treatment for drug-resistant TB at the Civil Hospital in Mon town. His village is a long way from the clinic and so each month, he has to take a bus early …
Jaipur: Despite tall claims by the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Rajasthan on strategies to dispose of bio-medical waste, successive (3rd, 4th and 5th) Common Review Mission (CRM) reports have highlighted the state’s lackadaisical approach towards handling bio-medical waste. Even the largest state-run facility SMS Hospital that is located in …
INDORE: Madhya Pradesh government is all set to introduce a 'controversial' vaccine whose efficacy is still being debated in the country and elsewhere as some deaths of children were reported after they were administered the vaccine. Much against caution by experts', Madhya Pradesh is mulling to launch pentavalent vaccine in …
The Budget has done its bit to promote alternative therapy for curing your aches and pains. Traditional therapies like ayurveda, unani, siddha and homoepathy medicines may get a boost through an allocation, while the impetus given to medical research and science & technology will benefit pharma companies. The Budget proposed …
National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), UPA’s ambitious plan focusing on primary healthcare for the urban poor, has been merged with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and no specific allocation has been made in the Budget for the urban health initiative. The Budget has allocated Rs 21,239 crore, an increase …
The Integrated Child Development Scheme came in for praise from Finance Minister P Chidamabaram during his budget speech for having spent its entire budget allocation — it had got a 50 per cent hike last year — but the hike it got this year was modest. The Rs 17,700 crore …
Budget 2013-2014: speech of P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance. Read Finance Minister P Chidambaram's budget speech February 28, 2013 Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2013-14. 2. I recall my last tenure as Finance Minister and acknowledge with gratitude the splendid support that I received …
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has urged Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram to sanction a special economic package of Rs 7,565 crore to tide over the difficult financial situation created in the state due to the reportedly faulty recommendation of the 13th Finance Commission. Virbhadra Singh met the Union minister in …
This could be the UPA’s worst cut to its beloved aam admi. Healthcare has virtually been handed over to privateers. India is taking firm steps to a certain health disaster. All of 80 per cent of healthcare is now privatised and caters to a minuscule, privileged section. The metros are …
