Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The covid-19 pandemic that was declared on 11 March 2020 has affected countries on all continents. Reported case numbers are certainly underestimates given the shortages or unavailability of test kits in many countries, a virus with a basic reproductive value (R0) of 2.2, and evidence of viral shedding from asymptomatic …
A range of regional bodies support national decision-making processes related to immunisation and public health policy. This brief profiles five bodies in different geographic regions that vary in the orientation and breadth of their thematic scope: ProVac in the Americas, the Caribbean Immunization Technical Advisory Group (CITAG), South-East Asia Regional …
This much awaited draft of the National Policy For Rare Diseases 2020 released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare proposes to provide up to Rs 15 lakh for rare disease treatment to patients needing one-time treatment. The government will provide a meagre one-time financial assistance of Rs …
Mental disorders are among the leading causes of non-fatal disease burden in India, but a systematic understanding of their prevalence, disease burden, and risk factors is not readily available for each state of India. In this report, we describe the prevalence and disease burden of each mental disorder for the …
NITI Aayog released the report on ‘Health Systems for a New India: Building Blocks—Potential Pathways to Reforms’. The report identifies four focus areas on future health systems: delivering on unfinished public health agenda, empowering citizens to become better buyers of health services, integration of health services to reduce out of …
NITI Aayog released the report on ‘Health Systems for a New India: Building Blocks—Potential Pathways to Reforms’. The report identifies four focus areas on future health systems: delivering on unfinished public health agenda, empowering citizens to become better buyers of health services, integration of health services to reduce out of …
National Health Profile report notes that diabetes and hypertension rate are high among Indians while dengue and chikungunya are a cause of great concern to public health. Life expectancy in India has increased from 49.7 years in 1970-75 to 68.7 years in 2012-16, as per the National Health Profile 2019. …
National Health Profile report notes that diabetes and hypertension rate are high among Indians while dengue and chikungunya are a cause of great concern to public health. Life expectancy in India has increased from 49.7 years in 1970-75 to 68.7 years in 2012-16, as per the National Health Profile 2019. …
The bi-directional relationship between poverty and tuberculosis (TB) is well established. Poverty aggravates material disadvantage, social exclusion, discrimination in participation across a wide range of socio-economic and behavioural activities along with undernutrition, overcrowding, lack of access to healthcare and other social determinants of health. Original Source
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Odisha Vs Orissa Trust of Technical Education & Others dated 15/07/2019 regarding policy on telemedicine in the state of Odisha. State of Odisha question the correctness of the interim orders passed by the High Court in a …
Haryana ranks at the bottom in terms of average health expenditure (2012-2017) among seven states that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) examined to assess the progress towards attaining sustainable development goals (SDGs) as regards “good health and well being”. The average health expenditure was just 3.29 per cent of …
Growing political attention to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) offers a rare opportunity for achieving meaningful action. Many governments have developed national AMR action plans, but most have not yet implemented policy interventions to reduce antimicrobial overuse. A systematic evidence map can support governments in making evidence-informed decisions about implementing programs to …
The prices and the coverage of effective direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) to treat hepatitis C vary across countries. South Korea expanded DAAs coverage through national health insurance. This study aims to analyse the cost-effectiveness of scale-up of hepatitis C screening and treatment with DAAs in South Korea, a high-income country. Original …
Based on WHO, Unicef guidelines, the draft policy with a roadmap for 2030, has been submitted to Yogi cabinet for approval The Uttar Pradesh government is mulling a new state Health Policy modelled under the guidelines of global healthcare agencies World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). …
Dengue has become a major public health problem in Sri Lanka with a considerable economic burden. As a response, in June, 2014, the Ministry of Health initiated a proactive vector control programme in partnership with military and police forces, known as the Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) programme, that was targeted at …
Order of the Delhi High Court in the matter of Aditya Bhatia Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2019 regarding permission to avail “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy” being provided to the petitoner (Aditya Bhatia) by Nutech Mediworld. The petitioner states that he is suffering from Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy …
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare released the National Digital Health Blueprint (NDHB) report in the public domain for inputs from various stakeholders. Speaking on the occasion,the Union Health Minister said that the Government under the guidance of the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modiji is committed …
Healthcare experts from India and the UK gathered for a first-of-its-kind conference in Birmingham to explore opportunities emerging after the Indian government's Ayushman Bharat initiative. The conference, which was organised at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham by the Indian High Commission in the UK, Consulate General of India in …
Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan Sunday stressed on the partnerships with all stakeholders including doctors, paramedics, frontline health workers and community partners for achieving the goal of eliminating tuberculosis from the country by 2025. The systems of care for TB patients should be patient centric, and sympathetic to their wellbeing, …
NEW DELHI: Raising concerns over low penetration of health insurance, especially in the hinterland, and high ‘out of pocket’ expenditure on health, the insurance regulator has urged private insurance providers to reach out to the uninsured in remote areas and asked healthcare providers to devise mechanisms to keep cost of …
