Nation-wide campaign on safe disposal of syringe
New Delhi: HL Correspondent
Health experts across the country has decided to start a nation-wide movement to prevent the needle -stick injuries caused by unsafe disposal of insulin syringes and pen needles by the diabetics.
The...
Several virus testing laboratories to come up across India: ICMR
New Delhi: HL Correspondent
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is developing a network of viral diagnostic and research laboratories to build capacity for handling outbreaks, managing epidemics and natural calamities across the country.
Under the initiatives, ICMR has...
Indian programme to eliminate leprosy was a failure’
New Delhi: HL Correspondent
India will take another 40 years to eliminate leprosy from roots following the failure of various elimination programme against the disease over the years, an international expert has said.
In 2005, WHO...
Stepping Up Awareness on Mental Health- Survey covers 12 States
27 December 2015 (Source ‘The Hindu’)
A team of nearly 60 experts from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), which is leading the National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) with support from the...
Digital OPD Transformation Project Launched at AIIMS
Health Live, 25 December 2015 Ekta Purohit
J.P. Nadda, Union Health Minister launched new digital Out Patient Department (OPD) at AIIMS, where appointment with doctors will be made through online to make ease for...
710 more Beds for Cancer Patients in AIIMS till 2018
Ekta Purohit/ Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda and Chief Minister of Haryana Manoharlal Khattar performed the bhumi puja for the building of Hospital Block of National Cancer Institute of...
Nation’s first urban health centre get NABH certificate
Rajkot| (PTI)
The Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) today claimed that a health centre run by it has become the first urban health centre in the country to get NABH accreditation.
"RMC's health centre located at Nana...
Priyanka Chopra bats for curbing anaemia in adolescents
New Delhi, Dec 23 (PTI)
Actress Priyanka Chopra today put her weight behind Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) campaign, a program to eradicate nutritional anaemia in adolescents, saying that health and nutrition are important for a country...
Hygienic Sanitary Napkins at low-cost
Amritsar| The district administration launched low-cost sanitary napkins for the girl students.
The napkins will be made available to the girl students through vending machines installed at different schools. Ravi Bhhagat, Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar said...
