Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Only 12 per cent of Kenyans are subscribed to insurance programmes,a survey buy online health service provider Daktari Africa has revealed. This translates to about 480,000 Kenyans who have insurance covers out of the country’s over 40 million people population. Daktari Africa chief executive Charles Kamotho said 10 per cent …
This article provides evidence on the impact of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on access to healthcare and financial risk protection; its coverage across selected states and whether the targeting is effective. Overall, just about 11% of households were enrolled and almost half of these households actually belonged to the …
Nagpur: The students at National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT) got an opportunity to interact with a pioneer of health care system in India. Nachiket Mor, India country director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, visited the premises on Monday to deliver a lecture on 'The promise and challenges of financial …
The lack of health insurance is traditionally considered a problem faced by individuals and their families. However, because of the geographically bounded organization and funding of healthcare in the United States, levels of uninsurance in a community may affect everyone living there. Health economists have examined how the effects of …
Expansion in India's health insurance coverage, particularly the government schemes, has helped improve various health indicators as more people seek treatment and medical services. For instance, insurance penetration has resulted in a rise of over 15% in institutional deliveries, thus reducing maternal and infant mortality . Similarly , people in …
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said that Andhra Pradesh will be the first state to implement such a scheme. The Andhra Pradesh government plans to introduce a family health insurance scheme in the state from January 1. A family can avail of the scheme by paying Rs 100 premium per …
A study by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has identified 41 Indian cities where the air quality is poor. Coupled with water pollution, the resultant health hazards are many. The cost of treating respiratory, cardio-vascular and waterborne ailments can be high and the need of the hour is health …
Inequality of opportunity, defined as differences in the prospects for upward social mobility, might have important consequences for health. Diminished opportunity can lower the motivation to invest in future health by reducing economic returns to health investments and undermining hope. We estimated the association between county-level economic opportunity and individual-level …
Almost 51 per cent of health insurance policyholders in India are underinsured despite steady rise in policy sold, said a report Apollo Munich Health Insurance. At 52 per cent men are more underinsured, that is they have purchased low sum insured health insurance policies that would not suffice in medical …
Guwahati: The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 (2015-16) states only 10.4% of households in Assam have a family member covered by a health scheme or health insurance. NFHS-4 was carried out under the aegis of the ministry of health and family welfare with the Mumbai-based International Institute of Population …
The monsoon is good for the economy. But it also brings with it problems of mosquito breeding that result in the spreading of viral diseases. Usually, the monsoon lasts from June to September and we see a surge in dengue cases around September and October. The case numbers start to …
The health protection scheme, modelled after Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), has already obtained the Expenditure Finance Committee's approval. PM Narendra Modi’s reiteration in his Independence Day address about the Centre’s commitment to providing a health cover of Rs 1 lakh to the poor may give National Health Protection Scheme …
Why India’s health insurance models frustrate and exclude a large part of the population. Three quarters of India’s population has no health insurance. Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said in May 2016 that only about 24 per cent of the population has some form of medical insurance. That includes …
The ‘National Health Accounts Guidelines for India’ details the standard methodology to arrive at health expenditure estimates that are comparable with other countries and also across the States within India and also over time. The States should use these guidelines to arrive at state level health estimates so that they …
Rs. 10 lakh coverage for small premium; govt. will pay for people from EWS “Nobody should die for want of money”, is the simple philosophy behind the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) latest and most ambitious project — a health insurance scheme to cover every citizen of the Capital. All set …
The number of cardiac patients getting stents in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is far higher than those in North India, courtesy the implementation of state-funded health insurance covers on the lines of Aarogyasri. This was revealed by top office bearers of the …
80% not covered by any insurance, dependent on private sector for treatment. Over 80 per cent of India’s population is not covered under any health insurance scheme, says the latest National Sample Survey (NSS) released on Monday. The data reveals that despite seven years of the Centre-run Rashtriya Swasthya Bima …
Financial bids to be opened on May 25, scheme to be rolled out in a month PANJIM: For the first time in the country diabetes insulin will be covered under a State health insurance scheme, which is all set to be rolled out by the government in May this year. …
Only 43 of the 89 government hospitals in southern Tamil Nadu use funds allocated for the government medical insurance scheme, while 25% funds allocated for development of these hospitals lie under-utilized. C Anandraj, a health rights activist and People's Watch, Tamil Nadu, which filed a RTI on the utility of …
Health insurance in India is skewed with the top five states -Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Delhi and Gujarat - contributing 71% of total premium, while the rest of the 31 states and union territories contributed only 29%, according to data with the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA). …
