Tag: Parliament
Health ministry comes up with guidelines on Thalassemia
While it has defined the guidelines, the health ministry hasn't made the carrier testing compulsory for relatives of thalassemia patients as it wants the same to be voluntary and not cause stigmatisation of the family...........
India finally gets a new national health policy after 15 years...
After its approval by the union cabinet, the details regarding national health policy 2017 were later formally shared by the health minister in both houses of the Parliament......
Lok Sabha passes Maternity benefit (amendment) bill, 2016
The maternity benefit for working women has been increased from 12 weeks to 26 weeks, thereby providing much better and improved maternal and infant health indicators in the future......
Govt spent Rs 5.2 crore on Dengue vaccine research in 2016
As per the union minister of state for science and technology, Mr Y S Chowdary, the government is supporting Dengue vaccine research in a major way.....
Indian parliamentarians call for united action against TB
The focus of the recent discussions at Delhi was to seek the commitment from Parliamentarians for the formation of an India Tuberculosis Caucus...
BRAI bill is currently under revision, to be reintroduced: Y S...
The government is updating the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill and it will be reintroduced in the Lok Sabha after updations, mentioned Mr Y S Chowdary, Minister of State for Science and Technology
Govt targets 1 lakh biogas plants during 2016, allocates Rs 142...
As per the government of India, it has allocated a huge sum of money for national biogas programme with fixed targets for each year....
“Healthcare must be kept out of political bickerings”
Feels Mrs Meenakshi Lekhi, national spokesperson of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...