Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has recently announced the launch of program ‘LaQshya’, aimed at improving quality of care in labour room and maternity Operation Theatre (OT). The Program will improve quality of care for pregnant women in labour room, maternity Operation Theatre and Obstetrics
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Researchers in Chennai have identified naturally occurring chemicals in Indian medicinal plants that have no significant similarity with those used in existing drugs,making them prospective ingredients for future medicines. A seven-member team led by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc)
The Meherbai Tata Memorial Hospital (MTMH), a 72-bed trust-managed cancer hospital located here, is set to become the first comprehensive cancer-care centre of the state with Tata Trusts deciding to support the hospital in a massive round of upgradation, which was inaugurated on Saturday by Tata
Bystanders with access to devices called automated external defibrillators could save thousands of patients struck by sudden cardiac arrests outside hospitals, according to a US study that cardiologists in India say underscores their pleas for AEDs in public places. The study released by US doctors
Calling it a historic day, Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched the ‘‘Viral Load testing for all People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV),”at a function, on Monday. The initiative will provide free of cost viral load testing for 12 lakh PLHIV on treatment in the country at
Using state of the art technology, Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital’s team of eminent ophthalmologists Dr.B.P.Kashyap and Dr.Bharti Kashyap along with Dr.Pritish Pronoy and Dr.Sunil Kumar, successfully removed cataract from the eyes of 125 men and women at the Sohri Chandravanshi Hospital at Bishrampur
Joined at the head since birth and recently separated in a landmark surgery at AIIMS, Odisha twins Jaga and Kalia are likely to be discharged next month. Sources said the twins had recuperated well after surgery. “Jaga is taking normal feed. He is healthier. Kalia is little weak. He is on mechanical
A free period has a very different meaning for students of Delhi University’s Lakshmibai College. For, long before Akshay Kumar brought menstruation into living room discussions, it was these girls who had usurped the title of “Padgirls”. In 2015, three years before “Padman” told the story of a
The Maharashtra government has launched a scheme to make a pack of sanitary pads available to 7 lakh girls studying in government schools for a subsidised price of Rs 5. The state cabinet, on Tuesday, approved a proposal to launch, Asmita (meaning dignity) — a scheme to make sanitary pads available
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda, informed that the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA), has crossed one crore mark in antenatal check-ups. In this programme on 9th of every month, symbolizing the 9 months of pregnancy, comprehensive and quality antenatal checkups
AT 3,300 METRES above sea level, in Ladakh, a team of specialists from Delhi’s AIIMS has achieved a rare feat — 112 knee and hip replacement surgeries. That number also tells the story of how these doctors have been conducting temporary camps in a region that so far had little recourse when it came
In the just released SRS bulletin (2016) India has registered a significant decline in under-five child mortality. According to the bulletin, under-five child mortality (U5MR) of India showed an impressive decline by 9%, a 4 points decline from 43 per 1000 in 2015 to 39 in 2016. The rate of decline