Health

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 Rajya Sabha on Friday, stated that as on 31.12.2018, 4677 ‘Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana’ (PMBJP) Kendras are functional in

In order to increase transparency within the system and keep track of the number of licences issued for organ transplants in the state, the Maharashtra state health department in Pune has decided to take the licence registration process online. The first-time initiative will make it easier for

AT THE age of 80, Jasmine Majethia doesn’t use a smartphone and relies on her grandchildren to book a cab for her when she steps out of her home in the Pune suburb of Bavdhan. But when it comes to helping children affected with thalassaemia – a genetic blood disorder – Majethia is a wall of support

India's largest cancer hospital - the National Cancer Institute in Jhajjar in Haryana will commence OPD services today. By mid-January indoor admissions will also start for the public in phased manner. Between January and March 2019 250 beds will be available and by December this will be increased

Union Cabinet today has approved establishment of two new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Madurai, Tamil Nadu at a cost of Rs 1,264 crore and Bibinagar, Telangana at a cost of Rs 1,028 crore. The AIIMS will be set up under Pradhan MantriSwasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). The Union

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has formulated a new list of essential diagnostics on the lines of the essential medicines list, to ensure that quality diagnosis is provided at all levels of healthcare facilities. “The list is on the lines of the drug list. It is a scientifically

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