West Bengal records highest dengue deaths in country savita thakur thakur7 Sept 2016 1:11 PM ISTKOLKATA: West Bengal has reported the highest number of dengue deaths in the country so far this year with the figure till August end standing at 22,...
Puducherry: JIPMER awarded for Best Hospital savita thakur thakur4 Sept 2016 10:38 AM ISTPuducherry: Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry has collected the Best Hospital hospital award...
Nadda Urges to private sector for give priority to innovations and best practices savita thakur thakur3 Sept 2016 11:17 AM ISTSuperior outcomes in healthcare in India will be better achieved with innovations in health practices and products“Superior outcomes in healthcare in...
Nurse strike hits Delhi hospitals, government cracks down savita thakur thakur3 Sept 2016 11:15 AM ISTNew Delhi: Over 20,000 nurses in government hospitals in Delhi on Friday went on an indefinite agitation to press for higher salary and allowances,...
80 Percent of Indian doctors located in urban areas - KPMG OPPI Report savita thakur thakur21 Aug 2016 9:28 AM ISTNearly 75 per cent of dispensaries, 60 per cent of hospitals and 80 per cent of doctors are located in urban areas, serving only 28 per cent of the...
Encephalitis to be made notifiable disease: Govt savita thakur thakur12 Aug 2016 2:27 PM ISTEncephalitis, which claims hundreds of lives every year in eastern India, will be made a notifiable disease, the government announced in the Lok...
Govt to alter ICDS plan to fight malnutrition in women, children savita thakur thakur9 Aug 2016 1:14 PM ISTThe Centre is contemplating a paradigm change in its scheme ---Integrated Child Development Services(ICDS)--- to take on the final battle against the...
Rajya Sabha clears Mental Health Care Bill 2013, read the details savita thakur thakur9 Aug 2016 11:37 AM ISTThe Rajya Sabha passed, by voice vote, the Mental Health Care Bill, 2013 that seeks to provide better medical care to mentally-ill besides ensuring...
Cap the cost of dengue diagnosis: Centre to states savita thakur thakur6 Aug 2016 5:33 PM ISTNEW DELHI: The health ministry has issued an advisory to all states to cap the cost of dengue diagnostic tests in private hospitals at Rs 600, the...
Nominate nodal officer to update websites: Health ministry savita thakur thakur5 Aug 2016 1:13 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Health Ministry has asked all its programme heads to nominate a nodal officer who would be responsible to update the rules and content...
India should double coverage of HBV vaccine at birth: WHO savita thakur thakur30 July 2016 12:41 PM ISTCoverage of Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in India should be doubled by 2020 from the current 45 per cent by addressing the administrative and logistic...
WHO, Health Ministry to hold awareness event on World Hepatitis Day savita thakur thakur22 July 2016 11:40 AM ISTMumbai: In a bid to raise awareness about hepatitis among people as well as health care providers and policymakers, the World Health Organisation...
