Health Bulletin 14/February/2023

Here are the top health stories for the day:

Govt improving healthcare, medical education through holistic approach: Mandaviya

''Government of India is improving the healthcare and medical education sectors through a holistic approach that not only envisages creating more quality healthcare infrastructure but also trained manpower to efficiently run institutions. Health is today being linked with development because only a health society can become a developed society”.

This was stated by Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare during his address to the plenary session of the Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit in the presence of Shri Brajesh Pathak, Deputy Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh and Shri Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh, Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare and Medical Education, Govt of Uttar Pradesh, here.

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UP Global Investors Submit: Govt Has Brought Policies To Encourage Investors In Healthcare Sector, Says Union Health Minister

Doctors assist in childbirth over WhatsApp call in Keran, J&K

In a heartwarming incident, a pregnant woman with a history of labour complications gave birth to a baby girl with doctors assisting them via Whatsapp video call in the remote Keran PHC in Jammu and Kashmir.

The desperate attempt to save the woman and her child was taken after heavy snowfall blocked the only surface link connecting it to Kashmir which also made airlifting her impossible. Keran is a remote village in Kashmir’s Kupwara district.

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Private hospitals provide 80 % super specialty services to patients in India

India's healthcare sector witnessing big, positive changes: PM writes to Varanasi cataract camp beneficiaries

Indian healthcare sector is witnessing big and positive changes. The reasons behind the development in the sector include rise in new medical colleges across the country and free treatment of up to Rs 5 lakh annually to the poor under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.