Health Ministry

The efforts by Accredited social health activists (ASHA), Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) and anganwadi workers will now be supervised through multimedia-enabled ‘m-sakhi’ application and the ‘m-sehat’ programme. The move is aimed to front line health workers in improving maternal, neonatal and child health. Qualcomm, providing technical support to the project, ...

News: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and Minister of Law and Justice launched the government’s latest health and IT initiative called Social Endeavour for Health And Telemedicine (SEHAT) in collaboration with Apollo hospitals. The Common Service Centres (CSCs) have been delivering tele-consultation services with support from ...

News: A government panel has recommended that not only should junk food be banned from school canteens but that shops, restaurants or vendors within 200 meters of the school should not be allowed to sell the products to school children. The committee has also suggested a comprehensive definition of junk ...

News: The 24 countries participating in the summit, which is being held in the lead up to the United Nations Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, together account for two-thirds of the global child-mother mortality rate. The ‘Call to Action 2015’ summit will discuss all the areas ...

News: The Maharashtra FDA had in May filed cases against online retailers like Snapdeal for selling prescription drugs without valid prescriptions or licences. The government may consider changes to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act to permit online sale of medicines following representations made by organised retail chains. The issue is ...

News: The recent amendment brought to the compensation guidelines in carrying out clinical trials in the country has cleared “major hurdles” for testing of new drugs, especially for those diseases for which cure is not yet available in India. The revised regulations are balanced and will address various issues, because of which sponsors have earlier been ...

News: Health Minister invites NGOs to adopt a ward or a section in the three government-run hospitals in the city to help improve cleanliness and amenities in the institutions. Minister met representatives from various NGOs to seek their participation in the Ministry initiative ‘Kayakalp’ and also provide feedback on schemes ...

News: Government of India developed a draft NMDP-2015, it presents as a landmark policy initiative towards making India self-reliant in the medical device development field by promoting Research & Development, Innovation and Manufacturing in India. The objective is to strengthen the Make in India drive in medical device sector by reducing ...

News: West Bengal government has decided to infuse Rs 2,600 crore to add 17,000 more hospital beds in 2015-16. In the government sector, the total number of hospital beds in the West Bengal currently is 63,000 and it would become 80,000 after addition of the proposed 17,000 beds. Taking into ...

Dr Harsh Vardhan, the Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences has said it is time now for Indian scientists to translate research in labs into solutions for the common man as a part of ‘Make in India’. He said that research into Ayurgenomics would get full government ...