Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent an indispensable force with which to combat inequities in access to health services and progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while …
THE contagion appears to have been contained before it could assume epidemic proportions. But it has still claimed four lives. The recent outbreak of plague in the Rohru-Jubbal belt of Himachal Pradesh (HP) highlights how a surveillance mechanism is conspicuously absent in India. While the disease is said to have …
india lives in its villages, said the Mahatma. But sadly very few of our political leaders acknowledge this. And while they look the other way, a few committed individuals have sacrificed the good life to strive for a better living for the rural folk using their knowledge base and information. …
The use of a carefully planned medical care kit and a set of well designed medical techniques has led to a decline of more than 60 per cent in the mortality rates among newborn babies in villages in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. In a study conducted in association with the …
In the last seven years, the number of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases in Bhutan has increased to fifteen. For a small country like Bhutan the number is considered to be a cause of grave concern. "Bhutan is fortunate that a national AIDS strategy was introduced even before the …
The World Bank will provide us $300 million during 1999-2000 to Pakistan for expanding phase-2 of the Social Action Programme (SAP). A high-level World Bank review mission will soon arrive in Pakistan to formally approve assistance. The bank had earlier disbursed US $270 million for 1998-99. The expansion of SAP-2 …
IT IS a matter of great concern that India lacksa health policy worth the name. Nearly abillion people have no assured access to healthcare and the benefits of modern science. Andwhat's worsethere is little pressure on thegovernment to prepare such a policy for thepeople. Unless there are health activists likethere …
Vienna recently played host to delegates from 49 states who had gathered for a UN-sponsored conference to review a 1990 treaty on conventional weapons. The special focus of the conference, which began on September 25, was on limiting the use of tandmines which kill or maim about 20,000 civilians a …
IN THE closing days of last year, the ministry of health (MoH) did an acrobatic loop on the issue of national health management. A circular issued on December 28, 1994, now requires the ministerial vetting of all developmental projects with environmental, and hence health, implications. This is part of the …
ASPIRING doctors, watch out. A 1,600 per cent hike in medical education fees is in the air. The Union ministry of health (MOH), in a bid to recover a part of its expenses, is considering allowing medical colleges to raise fees from the negligible Rs 300 or so a year …
