There are some shocking and depressing figures reported in an article in the DNA. As per data quoted in this article, in Mumbai: 4.6 lakh citizens die due to various illnesses since 2001 till Oct 2014 ( total number of heart attack -1.65 lakh ,TB and cancer deaths – 1.13 lakh and 72,759) 92 deaths …
The health officials have declared Jodhpur and Barmer in Rajasthan as two new high-risk districts in the state since polio cases are being reported from across Pakistan. Mr. R P Jain, the state’s immunisation project director said, “The Centre has approved our request to declare Barmer and Jodhpur as high-risk districts in the state.” Polio …
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Penicillin was the first antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1929 and had a huge impact on the war between humans and bacteria . Since then, development and sales of antibiotics have booming .However, health officials have also been warning us for decades, that the overuse of antibiotics would eventually lead bacteria to evolve in …
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An article written by Victoria Fan, Anit Mukherjee and Rifaiyat Mahbub in the Global Health Policy Blob talks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘s “Swasth Bharat”, a Healthy India. That combined with the proposed restructuring of the Planning Commission and the report of the 14th Finance Commission expected by the end of the year—the policy …
Mr. Gopi Gopalakrishnan is the President of World Health Partners (WHP) and has over 20 years of experience in implementing large-scale service-delivery programmes in low-resource settings. We recently had the opportunity to interview him for his thoughts on the status of Maternal and Child Health (MCH), family planning and health care in India. WHP was …
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