As the shift towards phasing out fossil fuels is gradually increasing in the world, The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in collaboration with the Council of Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is launching a pilot program in order to determine if health facilities such as primary health centres could be powered by clean, renewable …
Last week, the Indian government issued a directive to urgently immunize 300’000 children between the ages of six weeks and three years in Hyderabad, Telangana, following the discovery of an active strain of poliovirus. The pathogen was detected in a sewage sample taken near Hyderabad’s Secunderabad railway station and confirmed by the Ministry of Health …
Using old mobile phones, health workers log the latest local pregnancies, in remotes part of efforts in Rwanda to boost maternal health through a monitoring programme.This has already helped slash infant and maternal mortality rates.The database known as RapidSMS, was set up in 2009 with the backing of the UN children’s agency Unicef and underpins …
For decades now, the Indian pharmaceutical drug companies have been under the spotlight and depicted in a rather negative way with regards to generic manufactures. Indeed, there have been many instances where battles were fought in court, won and lost over the licencing of blockbuster molecules and the rights to market them. Examples of compulsory …
By 2025, India will lose 39.6 million years of healthy life to mental illnesses unless steps are taken to address the “vast” mental health treatment gap in the country, according to a research led by Vikram Patel, a prominent expert in the field. Three papers published in “The Lancet” and “The Lancet Psychiatry” journals suggest …
According to World Health Organization, India has an estimated 15-20 million asthmatics. If data is to be believed, 25 per cent of the Indian population suffers from an allergy and 5 per cent of them are suffering from asthma. Estimates suggest that by the year 2025, an additional 100 million people will be asthmatic across …
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