Health

To give a fillip to the medical device sector, which is a sunrise sector, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, announced setting up of a National Medical Devices Promotion Council under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in the Ministry of

An advanced portable ventilator has been developed in AIIMS Delhi, by a neurosurgeon and a robotics engineer this year. The device, equipped with a tablet, has been successfully tested. “The home version of this ventilator will cost around Rs 35,000 as there is no need of a tablet and can be

Cardiac surgeon Dr Tejas Patel performed what doctors claimed to be the “world’s first ever in-human telerobotic coronary intervention procedure” here on Wednesday. The procedure took barely 20 minutes at the Apex Heart Institute with Dr Patel supervising it from the Akshardham Swaminarayan Temple

The ESI Corporation during its 176 th meeting held on 05.12.18 under the Chairmanship of Minister of State for Labour & Employment (I/C), Santosh Kumar Gangwar, has taken some very important decisions towards improvements in its service delivery mechanism. In the meeting, It was decided to allow Non

The Narendra Modi-led government’s vaccination programme Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) is one of the 12 best practices from around the world to be featured in a special issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) next month. The special issue is being brought out on the occasion of the

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the partnership between Department of Biotechnology and Cancer Research UK for the India-UK India-UK Cancer Research Initiative was signed today in New Delhi.The India-UK Cancer Research Initiative is a collaborative 5-year bilateral research initiative by the

Ministry of AYUSH observes Ayurveda Day every year on Dhanawantari Jayanti (Dhanteras). This year Ayurveda Day is being observed on 5 th November 2018. On this occasion, Ministry is organising a “National Seminar on Entrepreneurship and Business Development in Ayurveda” in association with NITI

Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation stone of National Institute of Homeopathy at Narela, today. This will be a National level Institute and would be established as an extension of National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata. The Minister said that Ministry has

Geo-spatial data of over 20 lakh public & private healthcare establishments 4,000 trained professionals working for information collection Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey, released an Analytical Report of the National Health Profile-2018 prepared by the Central

Residents of Mazgaon village in Assam’s Lakhimpur district could do little about the arsenic contaminated water they were forced to drink until a few years back. They found most water purifying machines expensive until they began using a low cost and easy-to-use filter – Arsiron Nilogon. Researchers

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched the health assurance scheme: Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana (PMJAY) - at Ranchi, Jharkhand on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that this launch has been done with a vision to provide the poorest of the poor, and the

Among the 16 states piloting Ayushman Bharat before its September 23 launch, Meghalaya has universalised the Rs 5 lakh annual hospitalisation coverage under the national health protection scheme in the state. The state increased the cover to Rs 5 lakh by allocating an additional Rs 40 crore to its