The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
MUMBAI: Over nine lakh children below five years of age were administered polio drops in the city on Sunday. This was 69.1% of the total target in Mumbai, a drop from the last polio drive when 72% of the city's children were covered. The best coverage was reported from Parel-Lalbaug, …
SC HAS SENT NOTICE TO HEALTH MIN ON SUSPENSION OF DRUG PSUs Khomba Singh & Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI PRIVATE vaccine manufacturers have asked the government to hike the procurement price of vaccines claiming it is unviable to supply the medicines at the current prices. The government procures the entire …
AHMEDABAD: The death toll in the hepatitis-hit Sabarkantha district climbed to 43 with the report of five new deaths. Meanwhile, state health department launched a mass vaccination drive in Modasa town on Monday. According to district health officials six new cases of hepatitis have been registered today from Modasa town …
30,000 hepatitis-B vaccinations done on day one; toll 43 Manas Dasgupta AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government on Monday launched a massive immunisation programme to combat the spread of hepatitis-B epidemic in Modasa and neighbouring areas in Sabarkantha district. With fresh casualties reported from Dhansura and Malpur towns, the death toll has …
KOMUL President Kadenahalli Nagaraj said that measures are being taken to distribute a manual containing information on cattle rearing, disease prevention, vaccination to the associations and milk producers by the Milk Federation. Inaugurating the new building of the Milk Producer Co-operative Society in Byrakur village of Mulubagal taluk on Saturday, …
Modasa(Sabarkantha): The death toll due to the deadly hepatitis B in various parts of Sabarkantha district rose to 38 on Sunday while 12 new cases were reported in the district on Sunday. Panic and fear has gripped people and most preferred to stay indoors. The state government has announced that …
Rema Nagarajan TIMES INSIGHT GROUP New Delhi: The government might have reversed its decision to shut down three public sector vaccine manufacturing units following a public furore, but what
Shutdown Led To Shortage And Spiralling Of Prices: PIL TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss may have been able to get away without a political cost for his controversial decision to close down three public sector units manufacturing many life-saving vaccines, but he has run into the …
In a face saving exercise after it was rapped for discontinuation of vaccine production in public sector units, the Health Ministry announced selective and phased-manner re-starting of vaccine production at the three public sector undertakings, which had been directed to stop production one year ago. Answering questions in the Lok …
Where is the public in public health policy? Years ago, when this author studied policy making in public health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, his teachers harped regularly on one point. They said public health is 90 per cent about people and just 10 per cent …
New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi will provide intra dermal anti-rabies vaccine at 12 health centres in the city. Unlike the old vaccine, which is injected in the muscle, the new vaccine is injected under the topmost layer of the skin. Private hospitals are already using the new vaccine, …
Chandigarh: Polio drops were administered to more than 80,000 children in the city on Sunday. About 463 stationary booths and 66 mobile teams were also put up by the Chandigarh Administration Health Department. As many as 2,100 personnel belonging to the Department of Health, Education and Social Welfare, various nursing …
The participation of many organisations and countries in the development of new neglected disease products is a remarkable and welcome change from past decades of inertia and neglect. However, a broadening of funding efforts so that all who are able to contribute do so, and all diseases receive the attention …
LUCKNOW: The district medical authorities would be carrying out a Hepatitis-B vaccination drive in rural areas in and around Lucknow. The drive is expected to begin in the second week of February. Chief medical officer (CMO), Lucknow, Dr AK Shukla said that though they are yet to prepare an outline …
NEW DELHI: The world's first bivalent vaccine - that will protect children against both P1 and P3 strains of polio virus - is being tested in India. Around 900 newborn children in Indore, Chennai and Pune have already been given two doses of the oral bivalent vaccine (BOPV). Scientists at …
