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. …
Andhra Pradesh’s Aarogyasri programme has placed health on the political map in the state and is popular with the masses. However, corporate hospitals handle the biggest share of the cases and there is no provision for outpatient treatment of everyday illnesses that affect the working capacity of the patient. The …
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 …
The High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage for India on Sunday held a brainstorming session here to address concerns raised by the World Bank over some of the recommendations in its report for the 12th Five Year Plan. Among the issues raised were marginalisation of the private sector …
Calcutta, Nov. 23: The state government has decided to upgrade primary health centres to provide round-the-clock service, including “basic obstetrics” such as neo and post-natal care and child immunisation, the move aimed at reducing the burden of referrals on medical college hospitals in Calcutta. According to a report prepared by …
Is India doing marvellously well, or is it failing terribly? Depending on whom you speak to, you could pick up either of those answers with some frequency. One story, very popular among a minority but a large enough group—of Indians who are doing very well (and among the media that …
KOLKATA, 13 NOV: Chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee may have said that Rs 1,200 crore of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has already been spent for infrastructure development of rural hospitals as well as various projects under NRHM, but according to the data provided by the NRHM authorities only …
The State government on Thursday announced the implementation of a Rs.44.21-crore scheme of providing sanitary napkins to adolescents, young mothers and women prisoners in rural parts of the State. Billed as first-of-its-kind in the country, the scheme will cover the section of women in the age group of 10 years …
At least 50 people have died of viral, malaria and dengue fevers across the district for the last two months. On an average, every day one person died of a fever related ailment in the district for the past two months. Medical department officials deny this. Most deaths occurred due …
President Mohamed Nasheed has said that experts estimate the population of Maldives to reach 400,000 by the year 2025. In his weekly radio address delivered Friday morning, the President spoke on the world population reaching a record 7 billion next Monday, noting that it was an achievement in many aspects. …
Free medical check-up and treatment scheme to be launched on November 14, informs Sheila Dikshit. The Chacha Nehru Health Scheme, under which free medical check-up and treatment will be provided to all the school children, will be launched by the Delhi Government on Children's Day, November 14. At a meeting …
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 …
An ambitious scheme for distribution of free medicines at all government hospitals and health care institutions started here on Sunday amid reports of insufficient supply of drugs at several places and shortage of doctors, para-medical staff and pharmacists mainly at the primary health centres in villages. Long queues of patients …
This atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control documents the magnitude of the problem, using global cardiovascular mortality and morbidity data. It demonstrates the inequities in access to protection, exposure to risk, and access to care as the cause of major inequalities between countries and populations in the occurrence and …
According to the Maharashtra government's own figures, 18,486 children in the age group of 0-6 years have died of malnutrition this year alone (Jan-August 2011). The figure is quite high, say health ministry sources. In 2010, 12,792 children had died of hunger and malnutrition during the same period. But this …
SHILLONG: A meeting sensitizing NGOs and Media persons on the ongoing Measles catch up campaign was conducted on Wednesday at the social Mobilization Experimentation and Training Centre (SMELC) in Dakopgre, Tura. The measles catch up campaign is a special drive to vaccinate all children between the age group of 9 …
n 2008, 36 million people died from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). 1 By 2020, NCDs are projected to cause almost three quarters as many deaths as communicable, maternal, perinatal, and nutritional diseases, and by 2030 to exceed them as the most common causes of death. 2 On Sept 19, 2011, the …
Minister for Health, Horticulture and Floriculture Sham Lal Sharma was awarded the Agriculture Leadership Award 2011 in New Delhi yesterday for his outstanding performance in the horticulture sector in the state. The award was given to him by Union Minister for Law and Minorities Affairs Salman Khurshid in the presence …
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 …
This is your empowerment, Gehlot tells women Fighting the ignominy of being among the worst States in the country when it comes to mother mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR), the Rajasthan Government on Monday launched a major initiative to protect newborns and mothers. Thousands of people including …
Monsoon preparedness meeting held The district administration has decided to open a flood monitoring cell within the Collectorate in near future and the people could inform about the consequences of natural calamity during northeast monsoon. A monsoon preparedness meeting was convened by the Collector, S. Madumathi, on Monday in which …
