Tag: Health Policy
WHO calls for urgent action across South East Asia to tackle...
Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia in her World Hepatitis Day message called for an urgent action to find, test and treat the missing millions suffering viral hepatitis and achieve the time-bound targets of regional action plan...…………….
Govt allocates INR 46 crore for Leprosy in 2017-18
The 60 percent of the cases reported globally are from India.....
Public health expenditure in India stood at 1.4% of GDP in...
The statistics from the Economic Survey commissioned by the government shows that public health spending in India continues to be dismal..........
Medical Education: Let’s talk about underlying truth!
We often don’t speak about medical education and its role in nation-building in the way it should be, writes Dr Dharminder Nagar, Managing Director, Paras Healthcare
WHO certifies Sri Lanka malaria-free
After malaria cases soared in the 1970s and 80s, in the 1990s the country’s anti-malaria campaign adjusted its strategy to intensively....
BioVoice eMag August 2016 Issue-4 Volume-1
BioVoice eMag August 2016 Issue-4 Volume-1:
This issue in its cover story puts spotlight on recent cases of re-emergence of Diphtheria in Kerala due to...
MCI functioning under scanner, might get scrapped
The Niti Aayog has set up a committee to oversee the functioning of Medical Council of India after the critical observations made by.....
Govt trashes study that said Indians lose 6 years of life...
The Environment Ministry as well as the Ministry of Earth Sciences have rejected the claims made in the report over..
“Increasing healthcare investments is the need of hour in India”
The noted health expert, Dr Kenneth Thorpe says India’s public spending on health is one of the lowest...