Some parts of Mumbai have received the second-highest rainfall in July in 45 years, bringing the city to a halt due to the resultant flooding. The city is home to 18.4 million people, of whom sixteen have died as a result of rain-related incidents (at the time of writing). To avoid further incident, the …
Almost 70,000 people leave military service every year in India, with health needs to be met. To help with the cost of treatment, the government launched the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) in 2003 to expand access to healthcare for veterans and their families. But budgetary issues mean beneficiaries are missing out. This year’s interim …
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There are millions of persons with disabilities living in India, but a scheme meant to benefit them leaves many languishing. Official estimates posit the number of Indians living with disabilities at 2.68 crore (26.8 million), although World Bank estimates from 2007 placed the figure between forty and eighty million. Government figures suggest men are more …
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The Centre has once again exhorted the AAP government in Delhi to join its flagship healthcare scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) – better known as ‘Ayushman Bharat’. The tussle between the two governments over their respective healthcare schemes – the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat and Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics – has often given the …
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The outbreak of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district has raised eyebrows about the efficacy of healthcare infrastructure in the state. Now, one initiative aimed at combating malnutrition – implicated as a cause behind the crisis of encephalitis deaths among the district’s children – has come under scrutiny. The district ranked eighteenth out …
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The picturesque hill station of Auli in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand is battling the aftereffects of a grand Indian wedding. Weeklong celebrations have turned the town into a dump yard with forty quintal (4,000 kilograms) of garbage. The town is paying the price for wedding grandeur worth Rs 200 crore. After the wedding celebrations …
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The Goa state government is under renewed pressure to ban e-cigarettes, a move already undertaken by a number of other states. NGOs Consumer Voice and the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) appealed to the state government to ban the devices, with Consumer Voice chief operating officer Ashim Sanyal asserting that “several research studies have …
The bridge course allowing alternative and traditional medicine practitioners to fill the role of allopathic physicians was widely criticised when it was first announced last year as a means of plugging the nation’s doctor shortages. Maharashtra, however, continues to embrace it. The first group of Ayurvedic practitioners assumed positions in government-run health and wellness centres …
The impasse over sales to a hospital in Kozhikode, Kerala has ended following resolution of an issue concerning non-payment of outstanding dues. Distributors ceased sales of medicines and medical devices such as surgical equipment to the Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital (KGMCH) over the weekend. Suppliers had already stopped distributing cardiac stents to the facility …
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The monsoon season brings with it mosquitoes. The mosquitoes bring with them diseases. And Delhi is committed to making sure they are kept under control before the arrival of the first showers . In a meeting with municipal corporation and hospital officials, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said it is important that preventive action is taken …
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