Health

The Maharashtra government’s attempt to fill vacancies by wooing private doctors to government hospitals — by first allowing them to negotiate salaries and later providing additional incentives — has yielded results. In the last six months since the scheme was announced, the government has appointed

WHO lauds India’s commitment to accelerated coverage of safe sanitation services which, assuming 100% coverage is achieved by October 2019, could avert up to 300 000 deaths due to diarrheal disease and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) since the country launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014. As

Udhampur, in Jammu & Kashmir, will soon get a Super-specialty Army Hospital with the most modern hi-tech healthcare facility as well as DM and MCh trained super-specialist doctors. Disclosing this here today, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER

Health Minister J P Nadda will launch an ambitious programme to control viral hepatitis later this week, under which an expensive antiviral for hepatitis C infections will be made available free of cost at all government hospitals. The National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme will be launched at

In a step towards offering health care to all 24x7, the city’s Safdarjung hospital will run its out-patient department (OPD) for 12 hours a day under a Union ministry of health pilot project, becoming India’s first government hospital to do so. Under the project, OPDs for key departments, including

The gesture of kindness displayed by a courageous family from Karnal, who came forward to donate the organs of their deceased loved one, gave fresh lease of life to three end stage organ failure patients and, ‘gift of sight’ to another two, thereby impacting five lives in all at the PGI, Chandigarh

The Nipah was an unknown virus with no medicine or history of treatment and little information about the carrier. Health experts hit a blind spot during the initial stages of the outbreak in north Kerala last month. But they fought back and contained its secondary infection and nursed back to health

Dealy in transportations of a heart from Madurai to Delhi almost killed the chances of Rajiv Trehan getting a transplant. However, in an extraordinary show of quick thinking and surgical precision, doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital managed to perform the surgery by tweaking the procedure. In a heart

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, J P Nadda, exchanged the Memorandum of Understanding with the State Health Ministers of 20 States marking their commitment towards the launch of the Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) at a Health Ministers conclave, in Delhi on

Six months ago, Champa Lal developed stomach pain that he presumed to be a case of acidity. The Bikaner resident tried antacids and home remedies, but his stomach kept bloating and there came a point when he started to look like a pregnant woman. The 62-year-old then approached Sir Ganga Ram

A FEW WEEKS ago, when 27-year-old Bilal Ahmad Chopan, a labourer from Banihal in J&K, was rushed to the local hospital with severe chest pain, doctors quickly conducted an ECG, which confirmed that the patient had suffered a heart attack. “Without wasting any time, I uploaded the ECG on our real

WITH the AYUSH Ministry pushing for it, the HRD Ministry is learnt to have changed its stand on a proposal to elevate Gujarat’s Ayurved University into the league of IITs, AIIMS and IISERs. Last year, the HRD Ministry had sought strong justification for Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani’s plea to