Tag: Policy
Shaping India’s OTC Policy 2018, a study released by the OPPI...
A well-regulated OTC framework will improve access to medicines in India…….
IISF 2018: President calls for improving women’s representation in science
The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind has also urged the scientific community to mentor and open its doors to budding researchers and students in universities...………..
Enhancing the success of the Ayushman Bharat for inclusive healthcare
Effectiveness of primary healthcare centers is the key to the success of Ayushman Bharat, writes Dr Monika Chaudhary, Associate Professor, IIHMR University, Jaipur...…………….
WHO’s ‘Delhi Declaration’ calls for higher investments into health
To overcome challenges, the Delhi Declaration calls for allocation of sufficient financial resources by countries, as part of overall health financing strategies, to reduce out-of-pocket payments of families on essential medicines...............
Health for all resonates at WHO Regional Committee session
Representatives of a number of partner organizations and civil society are participating in the meeting that is expected to adopt resolutions on key health issues......………….
India’s proud moment as SpiceJet takes its first biofuel driven flight
Powered by a blend of aviation fuel and oil from jatropha seeds, the maiden flight by SpiceJet plane from Dehradun to Delhi also signified the government's policy push for greater use of alternative resources to cut India’s dependence on oil imports
National consultation on reducing malnutrition & childhood illnesses
The consultation was an opportunity to share and disseminate best practices for reducing undernutrition, maximizing the impact and reaching the most vulnerable through proven community mobilization strategies and scale up models...…………….
Banning e-cigarettes could harm public health, claims CHRA
The Council for Harm Reduced Alternatives (CHRA) and Association of Vapers India (AVI) that are batting for e-cigarettes have stated that the banning e-cigarettes would deny the country’s 120 million smokers a lower-risk means of nicotine intake and cessation...……………..
World Biofuel Day: PM Modi reveals the plan to set up...
Addressing a diverse gathering of stakeholders on the eve of World Biofuel Day in New Delhi, the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi informed that the government's target is to take save about Rs 12,000 crore worth foreign exchange through ethanol blending programme over the next four years......................
Govt lists measures to increase availability of quality, affordable medicine
Speaking in the Parliament on the issue of availability of quality yet affordable medicine for common people, the minister of state for chemicals and fertilizers, Mr Mansukh L. Mandaviya shared the details of the steps taken that direction by the government...………...