Health

India has more than halved the annual deaths among children under five years, from 2.5 million in 2000 to 1.2 million in 2015, but wide disparities remain between states, a Lancet study has found. Assam’s under-5 death rate is close to eight times that in Goa, which reported 9.7 such deaths per 1

Schools across the country will soon get a special grant from the Centre to develop “nutrition gardens” on their campuses where students would not only grow fruits and vegetables but also savour them in their mid-day meal, said a senior government official familiar with the matter. The plan, chalked

Aiming at reducing the number of deaths from heart attacks, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Thursday launched ‘Mission DELHI’ to deliver good post-attack care at the doorstep. With four bike-ambulances and 12 nurses trained to handle emergency cases, Mission DELHI (Delhi Emergency Life

MOU signed between Ministry of AYUSH and CSIR A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Ministry of AYUSH and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi today for cooperation in research and education in areas of traditional systems of medicine and its

The city’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is getting a Rs 9,053-crore makeover that will more than double its institutional and clinical facilities and take the number of hospital beds from 2,084 now to at least 5,000 by 2024. The master plan, which received the approval of the

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), under Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, has put out list of 390 anti-cancer non-scheduled medicines with MRP reduction up to 87%. The revised prices has come into effect from 8 th March, 2019. On 27 th February, 2019, NPPA had put 42 anti

In a bid to help adolescent girls living in slums, the Delhi government’s department of health will provide a pack of sanitary napkins to 50,000 girls per month at subsidised rates. The ‘Menstrual Hygiene Scheme’, an initiative by the central government, will be implemented for the first time in

Minister of State (IC) for AYUSH, Shripad Yesso Naik launched the e-AUSHADHI portal, for online licensing of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy drugs and related matters on Wenesday at New Delhi. Addressing the gathering he said that this e-AUSHADHI portal is intended for increased transparency

Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Chemicals and Fertilizers, Mansukh L. Mandaviya, while giving a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today, stated that as on 05.02.2019, 5001 ‘Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) Kendras’ are functional in 651

As per information of the Botanical Survey of India (BSI), an organization under Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change estimated more than 8,000 species of medicinal plants are found in India. The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Ministry of AYUSH is presently implementing

To provide primary healthcare in remote areas of Odisha that lack doctors, the state government on Tuesday signed an agreement with a private healthcare service provider to set up 102 “digital dispensaries” in 23 districts of the state. The dispensaries aim to provide primary healthcare services

Government had launched Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) with effect from 23 rdSeptember 2018, a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, for providing hospitalisation cover of up to Rs.5 lac per family per year to over 10 crore poor and the deprived families (approx. 50 crore people) in the empanelled