Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
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 …
The advent of the Sustainable Development Goal era, in the context of new threats and instabilities to peoples worldwide, offers an ambitious agenda for revitalizing political commitments to human well-being—for future generations as well as our own. The High-level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth provides a special opportunity …
The health sector is a key economic sector and a job generator. The aggregate size of the world’s health sector is over US$ 5.8 trillion per year. Across the OECD countries, employment in health and social work grew by 48% between 2000 and 2014, while jobs in industry and agriculture …
The Rapid Survey on Children shows a new trend of an increased access to healthcare by marginalised communities like Dalits, Adivasis and Other Backward Classes which have made substantial gains in the last decade. However much needs to be achieved in the realm of nutrition and sanitation where these communities …
The mohalla or community clinics run by the Delhi government could be termed populist but have the potential to meet the needs of the people, make basic healthcare accessible and decongest higher level health facilities. These could also prove to be a landmark in health service delivery in India.
Successive Governments of India have promised to transform India's unsatisfactory health-care system, culminating in the present government's promise to expand health assurance for all. Despite substantial improvements in some health indicators in the past decade, India contributes disproportionately to the global burden of disease, with health indicators that compare unfavourably …
The outrageous price rise of the 62-year-old drug, Daraprim (Pyrimethamine) has sent the United States medical fraternity into a dizzy. The price of the drug was raised from USD 13.50 to USD 750 per pill in just over a month. This obnoxious price rise of over 5,000% came after the …
PIL filed by Jan Swasthaya Abhiyan in 2015 regarding handing over of 300 primary health centres to private parties for running them according to "Run a PHC Scheme" dated 14/09/2015. This petition impugns the Rajasthan Government's cabinet decision no. 124 of 2015 by which it was decided to handover 90 …
The draft National Health Policy 2015 is an improvement over its predecessors--the policies of 1984 and 2002. However, it also reveals several gaps, inconsistencies and blind spots which tend to dilute otherwise constructive proposals. The purpose of this article is to open up the draft to further public debate and …
National Treasury Cabinet secretary Henry Rotich and the Japan International Cooperation Agency will today sign a Sh3.2 billion health sector loan for the Attainment of Universal Health Coverage, JICA Kenya office has said. The CS will also sign the exchange of notes programme with the Japanese Ambassador to Kenya, the …
Kenya has joined the growing list of countries that have embraced a new form of delivering healthcare services to make it more accessible and affordable. First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, who launched the new tele-medicine progamme Tuesday, said the new solution would help improve the delivery of primary healthcare, including making …
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have devised an entirely new approach to vaccines - creating immunity without vaccination. The study, published in Scientific Reports, demonstrated that animals injected with synthetic DNA engineered to encode a specific neutralizing antibody against the dengue virus were …
Kampala — Cabinet is due to discuss the National Health Insurance Bill after the Ministry of Finance committed to grant the Health ministry a certificate of financial implications. The certificate of financial implications shows that there are funds for the implementation of the Bill once it has been passed into …
Diseases that could be easily prevented and controlled by 2020 have already been identified. The Ministry of Health said priority will be given to prevent and control eight diseases during the Second Growth and Transformation Plan period. Speaking at a relevant consultative forum in Bahir Dar with partner organizations, Health …
How to finance progress towards universal health coverage in low-income and middle-income countries is a subject of intense debate. We investigated how alternative tax systems aff ect the breadth, depth, and height of health system coverage. The researchers used cross-national longitudinal fi xed effects models to assess the relationships between …
Luanda — The Health minister, José Van-Dúnem, said on Wednesday in Luanda that the launching of the Survey of Multiple Indicators and Health 2015 (IIMS- 2015) will enable the country to have updated data, with view to a greater control of the situation of the Angolans health. José Van-Dúnem was …
The 68th World Health Assembly wrapped up on Tuesday, with a series of decisions made to reform World Health Organization's (WHO) emergency response. After eight days of sessions, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan hailed that the assembly had passed several "landmark resolutions and decisions." Over 3,000 delegates from 194 member states …
Khartoum - Constitutional and structural reforms will be undertaken by the Ministry of Health in the coming phase to strengthen the health environment and food control departments in all the state facilities. Minister of Health Bahar Idriss Abu Garda praised the health environmental and food control staff in the centre …
China is to increase health care subsidies by 19 percent this year as part of efforts to deepen social reforms and strengthen safety nets, the government said at the weekend. Government health care subsidies for qualified urban and rural residents will be raised to 380 yuan (US$61.22), from 320 yuan …
Britain only succeeds when working people succeed. This is a plan to reward hard work, share prosperity and build a better Britain - Labour Party Manifesto 2015.
