Tag: Health
Health Ministry launches web portal to register healthcare professionals
Launched by the Union Health Secretary, the 'Allied Health Professionals Database Portal' has already registered more than 3000 healthcare professionals during the testing phase itself..........
Govt to conduct on the ground review of Hepatitis B immunization...
Ten years since the Hepatitis B vaccine was introduced in the Universal Immunisation Programme, the Indian Council of Medical Research aims to identify the barriers leading to low coverage and study the impact of the immunization..........
PerkinElmer plans to invest $100 million for its bioscience activities in...
Counted among top biosupplier companies, PerkinElmer has established direct operations in India in 2004 and currently has more than 6,000 customers and 1,700 employees in India.........
Health insurance remains underpenetrated & expensive in the eyes of consumers...
In order to deep-dive into issues that the industry faces and the hindrances towards improving distribution of health insurance in India, FICCI and EY conducted a joint study on which a report was released by Mr T S Vijayan, Chairman, IRDAI............
mHealth expected to be crucial in making healthcare accessible in India:...
The knowledge paper highlights that there are a number of features in mobile that can be leveraged to capture and transfer data...........
The George Institute for Global Health to celebrate its 10th Anniversary...
During the celebrations to be held on 15th December at New Delhi, the 10th-anniversary booklet will be released besides the panel discussions on important health-related subjects by renowned experts..........
15.6 million abortions occur annually in India, finds first ever study
The Lancet has come out with a first of its kind paper on the Incidence of Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in India................
Govt says it is working to achieve complete ‘Universal Health Coverage’
The focus of the government programmes in this direction has been to reduce the out of pocket spendings by ensuring the strong national immunization system and transformation of primary sub-health centres across India...........
Govt declares India free of infective trachoma
The National Trachoma Survey Report (2014-17) findings indicate that the active trachoma infection has been eliminated among children in all the survey districts with an overall prevalence of only 0.7 percent...........
100 million ‘Soil Health Cards’ distributed to farmers in the first...
The union agriculture ministry aims to provide soil health cards to all 120 million farm holdings by December 2017. The second phase began on May 1, 2017, and will continue for the year 2017 to 2019.........