Health

Ministry of AYUSH observes Ayurveda Day every year on Dhanawantari Jayanti (Dhanteras). This year Ayurveda Day is being observed on 5 th November 2018. On this occasion, Ministry is organising a “National Seminar on Entrepreneurship and Business Development in Ayurveda” in association with NITI

Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation stone of National Institute of Homeopathy at Narela, today. This will be a National level Institute and would be established as an extension of National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata. The Minister said that Ministry has

Geo-spatial data of over 20 lakh public & private healthcare establishments 4,000 trained professionals working for information collection Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey, released an Analytical Report of the National Health Profile-2018 prepared by the Central

Residents of Mazgaon village in Assam’s Lakhimpur district could do little about the arsenic contaminated water they were forced to drink until a few years back. They found most water purifying machines expensive until they began using a low cost and easy-to-use filter – Arsiron Nilogon. Researchers

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched the health assurance scheme: Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana (PMJAY) - at Ranchi, Jharkhand on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that this launch has been done with a vision to provide the poorest of the poor, and the

Among the 16 states piloting Ayushman Bharat before its September 23 launch, Meghalaya has universalised the Rs 5 lakh annual hospitalisation coverage under the national health protection scheme in the state. The state increased the cover to Rs 5 lakh by allocating an additional Rs 40 crore to its

A mobile-based app to help users locate certified yoga instructors and institutes around them has been commissioned by the ministry, which regulates alternative systems of medicine, including yoga. The app will list yoga instructors and institutes that have been validated by experts from the Central

At 1,844 corneas, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) recorded its highest ever donations in 2017, according to the data from the National Eye Bank. The donor corneas are transplanted in people with corneal blindness. The National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB) estimates

All of 3 kg, baby Karishma does not know yet that she is on her way to becoming a celebrity. Born at the Kalpana Chawla government hospital in Karnal on August 17, Karishma now has a new name: Ayushman Bharat baby. Her father Amit Kumar became the first beneficiary of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya

A Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) was signed between the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and National Health Agency (NHA) here today, to provide capacity building for Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana(PMJAY) to ensure effective rollout and continued quality implementation. As per the

A new Clot buster, PEGylated Streptokinase - a Novel Biological Entity developed by Dr. Girish Sahni, DG, CSIR and Secretary, DSIR and his team of inventors at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH), Chandigarh is all set to revolutionize the treatment of ischemic strokes. Ischemic

The Union Cabinet has approved to transfer the Central Hospital at Karma, (Koderma), Jharkhand under the Ministry of Labour & Employment along with its land and building to the Jharkhand Government free of cost to establish a new Medical College under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for