Agartala, Sep 21 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Monday said that special green corridors would be created in the state to facilitate the quick movement of ambulances carrying patients during emergencies and ensure that they do not get...
Kolkata, Sep 21 (IANS) Amid instances of fake doctors surfacing in the state, the West Bengal Medical Council on Monday began the registration audit of practising medical practitioners in the state for the last 17 years.State Medical Council sources said...
Hubballi, Sep 19 (IANS) Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday inaugurated the Jagadguru Gangadhar Mahaswamigalu Moorusaviramath (JGMMM) Medical College, KLE Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Hubballi. “An excellent medical-education centre has been established in Hubballi in line with...
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Patient safety cannot be the responsibility of a single programme or department and needs to be embedded across the health system, particularly in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and long-term management of noncommunicable diseases, a senior...
Kinshasa, Sep 17 (IANS) The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is showing a shifting pattern, with transmission easing in the long-time epicentre of Ituri but rising rapidly in North Kivu, where treatment capacity is nearing...
Geneva, Sep 17 (IANS) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday extended wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday. “Happy birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I wish you many happy returns. Thank...
Geneva, Sep 17 (IANS) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday extended wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday. “Happy birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I wish you many happy returns. Thank...
Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Sep 17 (IANS) The Karnataka government will launch a special two-year campaign to combat anaemia in the Kalyan Karnataka region, with a focus on screening, prevention and treatment, particularly among pregnant women, adolescents and lactating mothers, Chief Minister...
Kinshasa, Sep 16 (IANS) The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains "uncontrolled" despite an overall decline in cases and deaths, as the epidemic follows increasingly different trajectories across affected parts of the country, the World...
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) The Centre and the National Medical Commission (NMC) have told the Delhi High Court that a non-heterosexual partner can be permitted to act as a medical representative of a patient in case of incapacity, saying...
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) India on Tuesday dispatched 10 tonnes of Antiretroviral medicines to Botswana to support their public health system for HIV-AIDS treatment, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said highlighting New Delhi's commitment to strengthen health cooperation...
Kinshasa, Sep 15 (IANS) More than 7,200 confirmed Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as sustained transmission continues in several provinces despite an overall downward trend of the epidemic, according to governmental data...