Public Health Care

World Health Day 2023: All you need to know about this 75th anniversary

The World Health Organization will mark its 75th anniversary on World Health Day on April 7. The theme for World Health Day 2023 is "Health for All"

India's Maternal Mortality Ratio dips to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20

Maternal Mortality Ratio has declined from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20, according to a special bulletin released by the office of the Registrar General of India. According to the data, Assam has the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of 195 while Kerala has the lowest of 19 per lakh live births. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya attributed the improvement in the country's MMR to the Narendra Modi government's various healthcare initiatives. Maternal mortality in a region is a measure of the reproductive health of women in the area. Many women of reproductive age die due to complications during and following pregnancy and childbirth or abortion, the Special Bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India 2018-20 said. The present bulletin provides the level of maternal mortality for the period 2018-2020. According to World Health Organization, "Maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of .

India' health sector got $1.5-billion investment so far this year

Investment activity in the health care space has not slowed down due to the Covid-19 pandemic

CAG set to conduct comprehensive audit of country's health sector

Current approach to be based in common parameters, goals and analysis, as opposed to earlier exercises done on the basis of some research or state-specific issues

Health Ministry sends high-level team to UP for dengue management

The team will collaborate with the State health authorities in instituting public health measures for Dengue management in Firozabad, Agra and Etawah districts

Biden administration extends Covid public health emergency till Jan 11

The Biden administration said on Thursday that the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through January 11 as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter. The decision comes as the pandemic has faded from the forefront of many people's minds. Daily deaths and infections are dropping and people many of them maskless are returning to schools, work and grocery stores as normal. The public health emergency, first declared in January 2020 and renewed every 90 days since, has dramatically changed how health services are delivered. The declaration enabled the emergency authorisation of COVID vaccines, testing and treatments for free. It expanded Medicaid coverage to millions of people, many of whom who will risk losing that coverage once the emergency ends. It temporarily opened up telehealth access for Medicare recipients, enabling doctors to collect the same rates for those visits and encouraging health networks to adopt telehealth technology. Since the beginning of thi

Health ministry releases dos and don'ts to prevent contracting monkeypox

It also underlined that anyone can catch the virus if they have had prolonged or repeated contact with an infected individual.

This needle-free vaccine fights Covid variants better than traditional ones

Due to the constantly emerging new Covid-19 variants, the currently available vaccines may not be as effective

Monkeypox can spread irrespective of sexual orientation, race: WHO

Stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus, says WHO Director General

Half of India's states do not have a district hospital in each district

Delhi and Kerala have 3 district hospitals per district; Uttar Pradesh has two. Telangana has one hospital for five districts

India working on indigenous kit to test monkeypox as cases on the rise

At present, 15 VRDLs are equipped to test for monkeypox, including the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune

Transgenders in UP to get access to govt-run old age home facility

In a laudable gesture, the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to allow transgenders to avail the facility of old age homes run by the government

Country spearheaded fight against Covid under Modi's leadership: Mandaviya

The country also developed a "robust and strong mechanism to counter the public health issues," he said.

Govt docs agitation affects health services in Nagaland for second day

Members of Nagaland in-Service Doctors' Association have taken mass casual leave to press their demand for increase in the superannuation age of government medical practitioners from 60 to 62 years

Emergency healthcare provider CIPACA gets recognition, award

Emergency healthcare provider - CIPACA - on Friday said it has been awarded the Best ICU Growth Partner for rural hospitals in recognition of the disruptive model

Covid-19: Kerala sees 1,836 new cases, four deaths in last 24 hours

Ernakulam district reported the most number of patients (350) followed by Thiruvananthapuram (287) and Kollam (163)

Sputnik Light: SEC recommends permission for phase 3 trial as booster dose

The DCGI had on February 4 granted emergency use permission to Sputnik Light vaccine in India, subject to certain regulatory provisions

Covid-19: Kerala records 7,780 fresh cases, 18 deaths in last 24 hours

'As the number of recoveries were more than the new cases, the active cases dropped below one lakh to 85,875'

ICMR DG among 32 candidates in contention for post of AIIMS director

The incumbent, Randeep Guleria, slated to retire on March 23

Covid-19: Delhi records 586 cases, four deaths; positivity rate at 1.37%

The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28,867 on January 13