India and Norway have signed a letter of intent, promising to expand their cooperation on healthcare. This agreement will place a particular focus on matters such as reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. Norway and India have enjoyed collaboration in the healthcare sector since 2006 when Norway began working with India with the goal …
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India’s environmental performance is one of the worst in the world. On environmental health, it’s the worst. A global index places India 177th place in a list of 180 countries ranked on their environmental performance. Only the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bangladesh and Burundi place lower. The Economic Performance Index (EPI) measures rankings against …
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Haryana state officials and hospital representatives reportedly showed strong interest when a visiting Taiwanese delegation gave an overview of Taiwan’s universal health care system, launched in 1995, and its use of IC cards. The Taiwanese health care system is regarded as having improved significantly since the adoption of universal healthcare. One key feature of this …
Although it still has the world’s highest tuberculosis burden. New infections, as well as deaths due to TB are falling in India. However, evidence has shown the number of drug resistant cases of TB in India are rising rapidly. These drug resistant strains of TB are significantly harder to treat, with some areas not having …
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Around 40,000 private hospitals closed in protest against Karnataka’s proposed amendments to a medical bill to fix costs for private hospitals. The protest took place on Friday, November 3. An estimated 50,000 doctors across the state of Karnataka left duties in defiance of what they perceive as a penalisation of private doctors. “Doctors from across …
Shocking figures reveal that 51 percent of Indian women between the ages of 15 and 49 are considered anaemic. In the same age group 22 percent of women are overweight. Could both sets of figures point to unhealthy lifestyle and nutrition choices? The statistics, revealed in the Global Nutrition Report 2017 establish that India forms …
Pollution kills millions worldwide every year. In 2015, India witnessed 1.1 million pollution-related deaths. The vast majority of these deaths were borne by the country’s rural population, a new study suggests. “A pan-Indian problem” 75 percent of the 1.1 million pollution-related deaths which took place in India in 2015 took place in rural areas. Exposure …
Pneumonia, a disease that is, for the most part, preventable through vaccination, kills a child aged under five every two minutes in India claim doctors from the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Around 3.6 million episodes of the disease occurred in children under five over the course of a year in India. This was revealed during …
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A future health crisis grows in Delhi as recent surveys find 20 percent of schoolchildren in the national capital suffer from obesity. The findings indicate Delhi’s burden of noncommunicable disease (NCD) is set to rise – a trend observed across India, where a combination of sedentary lifestyles and poor habits are increasing the prevalence of …
Forty-five thousand people die annually in India from snakebites claims a survey conducted. Hospital underreporting of the issue, however, allows for widely varied estimates, ranging from 1,300 to 50,000. The survey, published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, means that India potentially holds the highest number of snakebite deaths in the world. He study suggests that …
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