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  • Spike in Covid cases| Nationwide mock drills to be held on April 10 and 11: Health Ministry March 25, 2023 07:01 PM IST

    Spike in Covid cases| Nationwide mock drills to be held on April 10 and 11: Health Ministry

    The advisory comes on a day when India recorded 1,590 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single day count in 146 days.

  • Taliban health ministry launches annual polio vaccination drive March 13, 2023 09:02 PM IST

    Taliban health ministry launches annual polio vaccination drive

    Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan are the last countries with endemic polio, an incurable and highly infectious disease that can cause crippling paralysis in young children.

  • Heat wave 2023: Avoid tea, high-protein food and other dos and don'ts from centre March 01, 2023 01:50 PM IST

    Heat wave 2023: Avoid tea, high-protein food and other dos and don'ts from centre

    Heat wave 2023: The government warned of an impending heat wave in many parts of India over the next couple of months, urging states to be well prepared to manage any surge in 'heat related illnesses'.

  • Health Ministry lists 'dos and don'ts' for protection against heat wave February 28, 2023 09:04 PM IST

    Health Ministry lists 'dos and don'ts' for protection against heat wave

    As part of a national action plan on heat-related illness, the ministry has advised citizens to avoid high-protein food and cooking during the peak summer hours besides asking them to not get out in the sun especially between 12 noon and 3 pm.

  • Chennai firm asked to halt production of eye drops linked to vision loss, death in US February 05, 2023 06:37 AM IST

    Chennai firm asked to halt production of eye drops linked to vision loss, death in US

    The eye drops, which have been blamed for vision loss in the United States, are not sold in India, according to officials

  • Budget 2023: Health continues to be on backburner, allocations increase by meagre 12% February 01, 2023 04:32 PM IST

    Budget 2023: Health continues to be on backburner, allocations increase by meagre 12%

    While the health ministry had received a 16 percent hike last year, the rise of a mere 12 percent this year may barely cover the inflation

  • Covid alarm: Centre asks states to ensure availability of oxygen, functional life support equipment at hospitals December 24, 2022 06:02 PM IST

    Covid alarm: Centre asks states to ensure availability of oxygen, functional life support equipment at hospitals

    In a letter to all states and UTs, Health Ministry Additional Secretary Manohar Agnani said the operationalisation and maintenance of these medical infrastructure is of utmost importance to meet any eventuality even though the number of cases in the country is low now.

  • Will pose an initial challenge, but a well-thought-out move, drug makers say of mandatory QR codes on branded medicines  November 21, 2022 05:41 PM IST

    Will pose an initial challenge, but a well-thought-out move, drug makers say of mandatory QR codes on branded medicines 

    The move is aimed at curbing the sale of spurious, counterfeit or substandard drugs.

  • How does one treat in fear? Doctors urge Health Minister to reinstate marshals in hospitals November 07, 2022 06:20 PM IST

    How does one treat in fear? Doctors urge Health Minister to reinstate marshals in hospitals

    The presence of marshals/bouncers in hospitals serves as a confidence-booster to doctors and nurses to impart the right treatment to patients without fear of violence from patients’ relatives/caregivers, say industry body representatives.

  • Health ministry working on guidelines to scrap bond policy for doctors November 06, 2022 04:07 PM IST

    Health ministry working on guidelines to scrap bond policy for doctors

    In August 2019, the Supreme Court upheld the bond policy of states and observed that certain governments impose rigid conditions.

  • Moneycontrol Daily: Your Essential 7 October 18, 2022 06:05 PM IST

    Moneycontrol Daily: Your Essential 7

    A daily round-up of the most interesting articles to help jump-start the day.

  • WHO noncommittal on sharing cough syrup causality assessment report: Govt sources October 13, 2022 06:06 PM IST

    WHO noncommittal on sharing cough syrup causality assessment report: Govt sources

    Experts say that the detection of contaminants diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol in the India-made cough syrups by the WHO and Indian authorities themselves is strong enough evidence against the poor and unsafe quality of the cough syrups. 66 children are reported to have died in The Gambia after consuming the syrups.

  • How Maiden and other Indian pharma firms exploited WHO certification process October 10, 2022 05:21 PM IST

    How Maiden and other Indian pharma firms exploited WHO certification process

    The recent incident of medicines from India purportedly leading to the death of 66 children in Gambia has once again brought the spotlight on loopholes with drug quality monitoring in the country

  • Health ministry says substantial reduction in out-of-pocket expenditure, rejects reports questioning data October 07, 2022 06:28 PM IST

    Health ministry says substantial reduction in out-of-pocket expenditure, rejects reports questioning data

    The ministry termed such media reports ”misleading and incorrect”.

  • Why Indian regulators fail to prevent fatal lapses in drug manufacturing October 08, 2022 12:01 PM IST

    Why Indian regulators fail to prevent fatal lapses in drug manufacturing

    Haryana-based Maiden pharmaceuticals is in the eye of a storm for supplying adulterated cough syrups to Gambia. It has now emerged that the firm has been a habitual offender. 

  • Cough syrup deaths: Govt says drugs not permitted for sale in India October 06, 2022 07:26 PM IST

    Cough syrup deaths: Govt says drugs not permitted for sale in India

    The ministry said in a statement that the cough syrups made by local manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceutical has permission to manufacture these products for export only.

  • Private hospitals concerned over removal of payment clause in revised CGHS empanelment pact September 27, 2022 04:33 PM IST

    Private hospitals concerned over removal of payment clause in revised CGHS empanelment pact

    According to private hospital associations, the government has added detailed clauses on terms of operation, termination, penalty and performance, but there are no payment terms in the agreement.

  • Government aims to deliver 10 lakh Ayushman Bharat cards everyday: Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya September 25, 2022 02:05 PM IST

    Government aims to deliver 10 lakh Ayushman Bharat cards everyday: Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

    The minister on Saturday said the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has crossed the landmark of one crore digitally linked health records with over 27 lakh records linked in a day.

  • Arogya World wins the prestigious UN award for initiative against NCD September 24, 2022 11:03 AM IST

    Arogya World wins the prestigious UN award for initiative against NCD

    The award recognized Arogya World for its work in scaling up community-based delivery models to strengthen prevention and control of diabetes at the population level, across 19 states in India.

  • India reports nearly 5,000 fresh Covid-19 cases September 24, 2022 10:15 AM IST

    India reports nearly 5,000 fresh Covid-19 cases

    The active cases comprise 0.10 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.71 per cent, the health ministry said.

  • Active Covid-19 cases in country rise to 47,922 September 18, 2022 10:18 AM IST

    Active Covid-19 cases in country rise to 47,922

    The active cases comprise 0.11 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.71 per cent, the health ministry said.

  • India records 5,700 new COVID-19 cases September 17, 2022 10:17 AM IST

    India records 5,700 new COVID-19 cases

    The active cases comprise 0.11% of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.71%, the Health Ministry said.

  • India records 5,554 new Covid cases, 18 deaths September 10, 2022 10:01 AM IST

    India records 5,554 new Covid cases, 18 deaths

    The national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.70 per cent, the health ministry said.

  • Cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in India cross 208.21 crore-mark: Health ministry August 14, 2022 10:09 PM IST

    Cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in India cross 208.21 crore-mark: Health ministry

    Over 3.97 crore children in the age group of 12-14 years have been administered the first dose, while more than 6.14 crore adolescents in the age group 15-18 years have been given the first dose.

  • 10 crore people administered precaution dose against COVID-19: Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya August 05, 2022 06:35 PM IST

    10 crore people administered precaution dose against COVID-19: Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

    The government had on July 15 launched a special 75-day special drive to administer precaution doses to all aged 18 years and above at public vaccination centres free of cost.