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 …
Guwahati , March 31: Assam on Wednesday became the first state in the country that has granted the right to health and well being to its citizen through a landmark Assam Public Health Bill, 2010. The bill which was passed by Assam Assembly on Wednesday makes it mandatory for all …
The resurrection of public health services in the country is key Shankar Acharya / New Delhi December 24, 2009, 0:49 IST The people of India suffer from terrible health. Nearly 40 per cent of all children under three years are stunted. Over half of all married women (age 15-49) are …
K.S. Jacob The varied disciplines involved with public health, their divergent frameworks result in different agendas. The public-private partnerships are suggestive of collusion between the stakeholders and actors with the public health agenda hijacked by powerful private players. Health is now a major priority on the international agenda and is …
K. Srinath Reddy Since matters of health are substantially influenced by policies and programmes followed in other sectors, all the Ministries of government must play an active role in advancing health goals. As India ushers in a new national government, there is a great deal of interest in the allocation …
President Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to spend $63 billion over the next six years on a new, broader global health strategy that would reshape one of the signature foreign policy efforts of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Mr. Bush made combating global AIDS a centerpiece of his foreign agenda. …
Mariani tea garden areas may face deadly diarrhoea From our Correspondent JORHAT, April 29: Amidst the tall claims made by Asom State Health Department
Gandhinagar: State health minister Jaynarayan Vyas has clarified that the draft Gujarat Public Health Act is "not a final document" and that it has been put on the web for triggering a public, debate, "making tie entire process most transparent". Vyas made the statement in view of wide-scale protests by …
The Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has asked the authorities concerned to resolve the outstanding issues of doctors pertaining to their recruitment on regular basis, salary and service structure and house job during the current month and doctors community would soon listen good news. Chief Ministers Task Force chairman …
Apart from shortage of beds, numerous vacancies lying vacant in hospitals NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP vice-president and convenor of the party Election Campaign Committee Nand Kishore Garg has presented an RTI-based study to illustrate how health services in Delhi were in a shambles. Dr. Garg charged that while the Delhi …
The public was understandably shocked and dismayed at the death of a healthy twelve year old child Peshala Hashani, from a Rubella vaccination, a routine preventive health measure. Naturally there was a public outcry demanding that an inquiry be held and those responsible be punished The health administrators confused description …
The Health Care and Nutrition Ministry will formulate a disaster management scheme to protect the hospital system as part of the World Health Day program on April 7. Health Care and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva disclosed this at the seminar held in connection with the forthcoming World Health …
The United Progressive Alliance government has lost a valuable opportunity to expand and improve healthcare access across the land and across all social sections during its five-year term. The Common Minimum Programme promised a public expenditure on health of between two and three per cent of the GDP. The actual …
This health manifesto targeted at the political parties ahead of elections demands for effective measures to achieve the achieve the right to health, which includes the right not only to timely appropriate quality health care but also to the underlying socio economic and environmental determinants of health.
The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 on Primary Health Care together with the slogan of Health for All by 2000 AD is considered one of the most significant public health initiatives of the 20th century. The 30th anniversary of the declaration provides an opportune time to revisit its history and arrive …
