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 …
LUCKNOW: Several thick government files with yellowed pages are piled up high inside the tuberculosis cell of the state health department giving it the `normal'look of any government office. But the environment hasn't dampened the thinking process of the people working in this cell. The proof of this is the …
LUCKNOW: The Sanjay Gandhi Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences started a tuberculosis awareness drive on Tuesday, with a rath yatra of TB experts visiting various DOTS centres across the city. The yatra was flagged off by institute director Dr A K Mahapatra from the general hospital of SGPGIMS. The yatra …
New Delhi: Laying down nutrition and feeding norms for the state governments to follow, the Centre doubled the budget allocated under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. Hoping to bring down the malnutrition figures, the daily budget per child has now been increased from Rs two to Rs four. …
Chandigarh: To check the spread of AIDS, the Haryana AIDS Control Society will establish two blood component separation units at Hisar and Faridabad during the current financial year. A spokesman of the society said the blood bank at PGIMS, Rohtak, would be upgraded as a model blood bank, besides establishing …
NEW DELHI: Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women and the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Oriented Programme (CECOP) along with the Quality Council of India have organised a two-week workshop on
Aarti Dhar Five-year plan to also ensure safe water and sanitation, besides child protection Setting new goals: Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury with Representative of UNICEF Karin Hulshof during the launch of the GoI-UNICEF programme of co-operation 2008-2012 in New Delhi on Thursday. NEW DELHI: …
The National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) was established on July 30, 1963, subsequent to the decision of the Government of India to expand and reorganise the activities of the Malaria Institute of India (MII) which remained in existence under different names since its inception in 1909.The reorganised Institute was …
The NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS INSTITUTE was established in 1959 at Bangalore by the Government of India. The technical assistance in terms of Manpower, Machinery and Equipment from World Health Organization; Vehicle & Equipments from UNICEF were of great asset in the formative years of NTI. This institute is a centre to …
CUTTACK: Even as non-inclusion of Hepatitis B in the national immunisation programmes by the Government continues to rankle campaigners against the killer disease, an amazingly low level of awareness or negligent attitude among the medical personnel has emerged as a major concern. Awareness on Hep-B is very poor among the …
The state government has girded up its loin to save the next generation from ill-effects of tobacco on their health. Preparations are being made to ensure strict action in this regards in all the schools be they private or government ones. A team comprising teachers and students would be formed …
TAMLUK : The litany of woes related to HIV/AIDS continues unabated in the rural fringes of West Bengal. Though, the state health department often claims that its AIDS awareness mascot, Buladi has been a success, but her campaign seems to have fallen flat even in the urban areas of Midnapore …
"As per report in India two persons suffer from Tuberculosis in a minute due to infected cough. And such a patient infects 10 to 15 persons a year. To prevent this we have been taking necessary measures, providing adequate treatment and medicines.' This was stated by Dr Pranati Saikia while …
A Dibrugarh based social organisation called Devoted Ethical Society Towards Integrating National Youths (DESTINY) organised an AIDS awareness programme at Sri Durga Mandir High School, Paltan Bazaar, Dibrugarh on June 7. Dr Kharga Nanda Handique and Md Abidur Rahman, counselor, Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH), Dibrugarh attended the programme …
With an aim to guide the youth and community leaders against the harmful effect of tobacco, the Centre for Adult, Continuing Education and Extension (CACEE), Panjab University, observed "No Tobacco Day', on Tuesday. Around 40 community leaders attended the programme. Programme in-charge Renu Gandhi said that to ensure good health, …
