Health

The untimely mortality of infants and women even today due to lack of awareness and medicines in India’s rural and vanvasi (forest inhabitants) areas are still a matter of grave concern. Sensing this utter lack of health awareness in these areas, Ekal movement’s health wing, the Arogya Foundation of

The Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, Shri Swadhin Kshatriya has conveyed to the Centre that the State will be declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) by March 2018. He said this in a meeting with the Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri Parameswaran Iyer, in Mumbai, and mentioned

The Government has sanctioned the setting up of 46 (42 Ayurveda, 03 Unani & 01 Siddha) Medical Colleges for the academic session 2016-17. The existing guidelines to set up Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha Medical Colleges is regulated by “the Establishment of New Medical College, Opening of New or Higher

Pushed by PM Narendra Modi, the Health Ministry will implement universal screening for diabetes, hypertension and three types of cancer for everyone over 30 years in selected 100 districts. According to ministry sources once this work starts in full swing, this would be rolled out for every citizen

A unique initiative in Jharkhand is giving positive results for implementing the Swachh Bharat campaign of Central Government. Chief Secretary of Jharkhand had sent letters to east district administration that teachers should ensure that they use toilets at home. State's West Singhbhum district

Under the leadership of superintendent of police Sanket Pandey , 18 thana in-charges have launched training programmes for the malnourished children among members of the Saharia tribe in MP's Sheopur district. The programmes include administering drugs and vitamins, and counselling the parents. They

Non-Communicable diseases (NCDs) which are Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) such as heart attacks and stroke, Diabetes, Chronic Respiratory Diseases (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases and Asthma) and Cancer inter alia account for over 60% of all mortality in India. Of these, nearly 55% are

18 महीनों में पाली और जोधपुर जिला अस्पतालों का डिजिटलीकरण होगा केन्द्रीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी राज्य मंत्री श्री पीपी चौधरी शुक्रवार को दिल्ली स्थित मंत्रालय में सीडैक, एनआईसी तथा अपने विभाग के अधिकारियों से बैठक कर देश भर में ई-हॉस्पीटल और अस्पतालों को सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी से जोड़ने के बारे में चर्चा की।

This is the story of one Karimul Haque, a tea garden worker in his early 50s, who ferries the ill, the poor and the fragile to and from the district hospital on his bike. In rural India the road conditions are pretty bad and so is the medical facilities. If, in a remote village, there is a medical

Delhi government has decided to build waste-to-energy plants at all its wholesale food markets. If it starts working properly and regularly this will be a major boost to the environment issues of capital city. And may be it could be replicated elsewhere too. At any of the wholesale markets around

(This news in English also given below.) पिछले दशकों में विशेषकर शिक्षा एवं स्वास्थ्य के प्रति आमजन जागरूक हुआ है। वहीं कैंसर, हृदय रोग सहित कई असाध्य रोगो के फैलाव से जनजीवन त्रस्त है जिसकी जकड़न में आए गरीब एवं पिछड़़े तबके को गंभीर बीमारियों के इलाज में अपना घर बार तक बेचने को मजबूर होना पड़ता है।

A number of government and private hospitals have been working on remote healthcare delivery for years. Lately startups are entering the space to provide the technology know-how and improve delivery of healthcare. And in the process, many have realized that women in rural areas are the ones with