Tag: Policy
NEET cut off percentile reduced by 15%
Since the decision is expected to benefit about 18000 students, the union health minister, J P Nadda has called it as significant step towards strengthening medical sector...............
World Malaria Day: WHO calls for sustained high-level commitment to beat...
The WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia has called for expanding national malaria programmes’ reach to disadvantaged or neglected communities, including tribal, migrant or mobile populations..............
New Specified Health Warning on Tobacco Products packs
One of the most important key features of the new set of specified health warnings will include telephone Quit-line number “Quit Today Call 1800-11-2356”..........
Taxes on soft drinks, alcohol & tobacco must to tackle rising...
Data analysis by the Lancet presents strong evidence that taxes on unhealthy products have the potential to produce major health gains among the poorest in society who are disproportionately affected by NCDs..............
Safe Blood Transfusion: A Challenge
The challenge is not just with fragmentation or the number of blood banks, it is also with the lack of regular, repeat voluntary blood donations and screening techniques that are used to test donated blood, writes Sumit Bagaria...........
Modicare to become a reality as cabinet approves Ayushman Bharat
More than 10 crore families to be covered under the National Health Protection Mission in which benefit cover is upto Rs 5 lakh per family per year. The existing schemes, RSBY and SCHIS to be subsumed under Ayushman Bharat................
AIMED terms latest MedTech preferential market access policy as disappointing
The Association of Indian Medical Device Industry has said that by denying preferential pricing to Indian manufacturers, the draft policy guidelines can be said to be bordering on encouraging, what it called, pseudo manufacturing.............
Rs 11 lakh crore target for priority sector lending to agriculture...
The finance minister, Mr Arun Jaitley emphasized that the banking sector must invest in long-term assets to improve the capital formation in agriculture sector.................
Rare disease day commemorated in Delhi
Lysosomal Storage Disorders Support Society (LSDSS) organized an event to spread awareness regarding rare diseases and its policy...................
Price control in healthcare is a misguided policy!
While the NPPA identified the presence of information asymmetry in the market that leads to high prices of drugs and devices, it could have looked at affordability and access in a holistic manner, writes Dr Ashish Bharadwaj..............