Following Diwali celebrations in India, major cities in the country are now be faced with sever levels of air pollution originating from the combustion of black powder released by fireworks and other pyrotechnic items . Although this is an issue that spawns every year, pollution levels are said to have reached record levels compared to 2015 and …
“The TB epidemic is larger than previously estimated” and India is to blame. This is an alarming statement; perhaps the most alarming statement to be found in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recently published 2016 Global Tuberculosis Report. However, it is followed by, “the number of TB deaths and the TB incidence rate continue to …
Birds in parts of India have tested positive for bird flu – less than two months after the country was declared free of the disease. The Business Standard reported on September 5 that the department of animal husbandry cleared India of avian influenza. It attributed this to the country’s having “adopted extensive control measures.” Now, …
Could Japan be a new, opportune market for Indian pharma? Recent comments by Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman seem to suggest as much. At a seminar in New Delhi, organised by the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) think tank, Sitharaman encouraged Indian companies to increase exports to Japan under the …
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The health of Indians is being ravaged by the burning of roadside trash piles, a new American study says. Duke University Professor Michael Bergin, whose lab carried out the study, said that “somebody standing near one of these fires is getting a dose of toxins 1,000 times greater than they would from the ambient air.” …
At the government-run Veerangana Avanti Bai Women’s Hospital in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, mothers are quietly nurturing their premature infants through their touch. With music in the background, the skin-to-skin contact or Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) between the mother and the baby works to ensure the survival of these babies. This simple intervention .has the potential …
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HII last week wrote about the fact that suicide, being the leading cause of death among the young in India last year, should be looked at as a legitimate national health priority. We spoke about how lack of infrastructure and awareness of mental health issues seems to disproportionately affect people living in urban centres. Now …
We at HII have constantly emphasised that health issues in India are not treated as socio-political issues. Our spending on health, as a percentage of GDP, is below countries like Rwanda and Bangladesh. Millions of impoverished people still have to travel hundreds of kilometres to cities like New Delhi and wait in long lines to …
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Earlier this month the United Nations High Level Panel (HLP) on Access to Medicines released their long-awaited final report. The multinational panel was convened in September last year by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, as a response to global inequality of access to medicines, with the stated objective: “to review and assess proposals and …
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