Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
With the withdrawal of Trinamool Congress support from the UPA, special grants for implementation of various schemes — especially the Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF) — may dry up, fear TMC leaders. Senior state government officials say this year the state is supposed to get Rs 2,000 crore from the …
Studies have widely documented the socioeconomic inequalities in maternal and child health related outcomes in developing countries including India. However, there is limited research on the inequalities in advice provided by public health workers on maternal and child health during antenatal visits. This paper investigates the inequalities in advice provided …
Prime Minister, experts batted for 2.5% Months of deliberations on allocations for the critical health sector have ended with the Planning Commission making the final allocations under the 12th Five Year Plan. At a full meeting of the commission headed by PM Manmohan Singh, it was decided to set aside …
The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan on Monday called upon the Union Government to extend free medicine supply scheme, presently operational in a few States like Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, all over the country to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure of common people on health care. Such a scheme would especially benefit the patients …
UP’s dismal performance on the health front has been sliding further with scams in its NRHM implementation, murders of senior health officials The public-private partnership (PPP) model will soon permeate the rickety health-sector in Uttar Pradesh. Under the top-down approach, the state government would rollout diagnostic centres at the district …
New Delhi:Criticized for tardy probe progress coupled with acute shortage of officers to investigate cases, the CBI got a relief in National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam investigations as the Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a special court for all the health scheme fraud cases. The UP government issued anotification …
The infant mortality rate (IMR) is higher in the State compared to other South Indian states, according to S Selva Kumar, State mission director of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). For every 10 lakh children born every year in the State, nearly 35,000 die even before completing one year. …
The re-categorised list of endosulfan victims in 11 panchayats of the district has shattered the hopes of many patients, who were under the impression that the government’s decision to pay the compensation recommended by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) would end their woes to some extent. The rehabilitation package, …
Scheme coming for free distribution of medicines through public hospitals and health centres The government will expand the scope of the NRHM to all towns and cities, by converting it into a National Health Mission (NHM), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Wednesday. In his Independence Day speech from the …
The Indian Government is planning to launch a new urban health-care programme in its latest step towards universal health-care coverage in the country. Soumyadeep Bhaumik reports.
Activists are up in arms against the Planning Commission for its proposal in the 12Th Five Year Plan document that seeks to restructure the health care system in a way that it would be handing it over to the corporate sector. “It is particularly problematic that the Plan document to …
The state government has commenced three new health programmes from Tuesday on a pilot basis at Bhadrachalam and Khammam. The projects include Sishu Sanjeevani (special care for newborn babies) to cut down on infant mortality rate; Akshya project (nutrition rehabilitation centres for thousands of children with malnutrition); and Ammakulana (support …
Technically feasible and cost-effective interventions exist to reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality. This potential has not been fully realised due to the failure of health systems to improve the delivery and uptake of these priority interventions, particularly amongst the most vulnerable women and children. Underfunded investments in maternal, newborn, …
The disease has already claimed 145 lives in the region this year At a time when people are praying for a bountiful monsoon, rains bring death and devastation in the eastern belt of Uttar Pradesh. And if the locals are to be believed, the season of death has started as …
JAIPUR: For the treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) at the malnutrition treatment centre (MTC), the medical health and family welfare department has decided to give Rs135 per day for stay at the MTC to the parents of the SAM children. "We have increased the amount from Rs35 to Rs135 …
New Delhi: The National Family Health Survey, India’s primary source of health and nutrition data, is back on. The fourth round of the survey, which was believed to have been controversially called off, will be conducted between 2013 and 2014 and its results will be out over 2014-15, the health …
A two-day training programme for trainers got underway here today on prevention of anaemia among children to save them from malnutrition and importance of Vitamin A and zinc for them. The workshop was inaugurated by Director of National Rural Health Mission Madhya Pradesh, Shri Ravindra Pastor. Child health/vaccination officers are …
GUWAHATI: The Nartional Rural Health Mission (NRHM) organized a meeting for the Northeastern States on Thursday which was chaired by special secretary, Government of India Heshab Desiraju. The purpose of carrying out the meeting was deliberate on the implementation of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products act, Food Safety and …
The recently-announced "free drugs for all" initiative by the Centre could lead to the long-pending national pharmaceutical policy getting cleared. In 2002, the Supreme Court had struck down the policy saying it did not specify how essential medicines would be made affordable and available to the masses. To start with, …
The government and the MCI dither on a proposed course to provide better primary health care in villages. On February 27, the Delhi High Court slapped contempt notices on the Union Health Secretary and the Chairperson of the Medical Council of India (MCI) for their non-compliance with its order of …
