Health

Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information and Broadcasting, in presence of Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment distributed 3052 Aids and Assisted Living Devices distributed to 1843 senior

A team of five IIT-Madras students has developed a mechanical device that can lead to safer use of public toilets. The device lifts, sanitises and wipes a toilet seat, and is hands-free. These students have developed a prototype that comprises a simple foot pedal at the base of the commode that

Government has set a deadline of 2021 to provide clean drinking water to 28,000 habitations, heavily affected with arsenic and fluoride contaminated water. Concerned that polluted water is linked with onset of cancer and even hypertension, diabetes and reproductive disorders, the ministry of

TB is a disease which is largely curable and preventable. “We are committed to achieving zero TB deaths and therefore we need to re-strategize, think afresh and have to be aggressive in our approach to end TB by 2025.” This was stated by Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda, at a

Now, one would not have to stand in long queues for getting appointments with doctors in the government hospitals. Appointments can be sought through Online Registration System (ORS). Online Registration System (ORS) is a framework to link various hospitals across the country for Aadhaar based

The Chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, Ratan Tata has given an in-principal approval for opening of a cancer hospital in Ranchi. State Chief Minister, Raghubar Das had sent a formal request earlier. Tata's already have a cancer hospital in Jharkhand in Jamshedpur. People of Ranchi and others in this

If one has a will wonders can be created in no time. Here is a story of how in a matter of just few months Tirunelveli municipality in Tamil Nadu was able to segregate all its generated waste at source across households and establishments. Tirunelveli, which has around 1.6 lakh households, took up

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India had entrusted the work relating to carrying out a Survey of the extent of problems of ‘Spurious and Not of Standard Quality Drugs’ to the National Institute of Biologicals (NIB), Noida. The NIB has since submitted the report to the

किशोरों के लिए ‘साथिया’ रिसोर्स किट एवं ‘ साथिया सलाह ’ मोबाइल ऐप Hindi news also given. C K Mishra, Secretary, Health and Family Welfare launched the SAATHIYA Resource Kit including ‘Saathiya Salah’ Mobile App for adolescents, as part of the Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) program. One

समुदाय आधारित कुपोषण प्रबंधन का अभिनव कार्यक्रम बना अन्य राज्यों के लिए मिसाल विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन, विश्व खाद्य कार्यक्रम, यूनीसेफ एवं संयुक्त राष्ट्र की न्यूट्रीशन पर गठित सिस्टम स्टेंडिग कमेटी की वर्ष 2007 की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार समुदाय आधारित प्रबंधन द्वारा 85 से 90 प्रतिशत तक अति गंभीर कुपोषित

Nine national level institutions under AYUSH provide medical facilities and education in AYUSH system of medicine. Another two are likely to become operational soon. The existing National Institutes under the Ministry of AYUSH are as under:- I. National Institute of Ayurveda-Jaipur(Rajasthan) II

Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) has developed anti-diabetic drug AYUSH-82 and AYUSH-SG for Rheumetoid Arthritis. Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH) has developed 9 drugs out of which 2 are of vegetable origin, 5 are from different strains of Dengue virus