Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India)

Healthcare to focus on PPPs

India will encourage public-private-partnerships (PPPs) in the treatment and control of diseases like diabetes and cancer. The government is working on the modalities of a national cancer treatment and awareness programme that...

Prison hospital to be modernised

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare has sanctioned Rs. 5 lakh Need to set up an Intensive Care Unit Posting of one more doctor has been sought TIRUCHI: The Central Prison authorities have proposed to procure a host of...

Govt to launch National Organ Transplant Programme

The government is planning to launch a National Organ Transplant Programme to encourage and facilitate major transplantations like kidney, liver and heart. This was announced by the Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr....

Public hygiene initiative for villages has not worked: NGO

Kolkata: Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP), which translates as clean village prize, was launched five years ago to promote sanitation in rural India with a cash reward for villages where every household and school had a flush...

Hospitals will be required to report brain death

Organ Procurement and Distribution Centres to be set up in each State: Anbumani Ramadoss — Photo: R. Ragu HAILING THEIR DEED: Governor Surjit Singh Barnala honouring organ-donor families at Raj Bhavan in Chennai on Saturday....

Health Ministry under pressure to relax Anti-Tobacco Act

Press Trust of India / New Delhi November 14, 2008, 15:36 IST The tobacco industry is putting "pressure" on Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to revise the Anti-Tobacco Act, the ministry has revealed before the Central...

How to cross poverty line? Earn Rs 455 a month: Govt

14 Nov 2008, 0233 hrs IST, Dhananjay Mahapatra,TNN NEW DELHI: The sharp erosion in the value of money and the spiralling prices of essential items may have played havoc with people's lives, making it difficult for them to...

Patients helpless at government hospitals

Medical services affected for fourth day following doctors’ strike; political parties extend support — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy LEFT IN THE LURCH: Patients such as this one were left to fend for themselves at the K.C....

DDs Kalyani gets a new lease of life

NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s weekly programme on health issues Kalyani received a major boost today with the Health and Family Welfare Ministry agreeing to extend the Kalyani Project for the 7th year. A Memorandum of Understanding...

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