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 …
Delhi unveils its latest weapon in the fight against the city’s air pollution crisis: a smog cannon. It is an intervention that has failed everywhere else that it has been tried. A trial run of the anti-smog gun, which is manufactured by Haryana-based firm Cloud Tech, took place on December 20 in East Delhi. Imran …
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‘Delhi has become a gas chamber’ says Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, as smog in the national capital reaches critical levels and leads the Indian Medical Association (IMA) declaring a state of public health emergency. Deterioration of air quality in Delhi in recent days has caused widespread disruption. Junior schools in the city are closed until at least …
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Twin boys conjoined at the head have undergone surgery in an attempt at separating them. The surgery is the first of its kind in India. Due to the twins’ skulls being joined, the surgery has presented itself as a particularly complex, highly intricate procedure. Adding to the complication the twins shared veins which returned blood …
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Ashwini Choubey, a health minister from Bihar, has accused Bihari patients of overcrowding the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi – and says doctors should turn them away. A ‘BJP veteran’ appointed in September, Choubey has been roundly criticised for remarks allegedly made at the launch of Mission Idradhanush, an immunization drive earlier …
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A Delhi government report has announced that two people died of smallpox and 11 died of polio in the capital last year. This announcement caused panic that two eradicated diseases had reemerged in India, though the announcement has since been declared a mistake, likely due to a clerical error. The Delhi government has attempted to …
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The BJP faces accusations of institutionalised corruption in yet another scandal involving medical colleges. As controversy over the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh continues, a similar issue has arisen in Kerala. Allegations this time say approval for medical colleges by the Medical Council of India (MCI) is being obtained through bribes. This is according to …
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Over a million Indians a year die because of air pollution, a new Greenpeace report claims. The smog cost three percent of GDP annually, it adds. Greenpeace bases the estimate on official figures. The report – subtly titled “Airapocalypse” – was published on Wednesday, January 11th 2017. Its findings drew upon online reports and information …
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A 23-year-old woman – dubbed ‘Nirbayha’ by the press – was beaten and raped onboard a bus in New Delhi by a gang of men. The attack left her in critical condition, and Nirbhaya succumbed to her injuries in hospital two weeks later. The incident made international headlines, highlighting what The Independent called a rape …
Bill Gates, American computing colossus and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced his intention to work with the Indian government on social projects driven by information technology (IT) and e-health is one of them. Calling government spending on health in India “very inadequate”, the multi-billionaire extolled the virtues of e-health, saying …
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