News The Asian Development Bank(ADB) today said it will lend USD 300 million to support India’s National Urban Health Mission (NUHM). “India has made good progress toward improving health services in rural areas, but over 77 million urban poor and vulnerable still have limited access to basic health services such ...
Read More »India to assume presidency of World Health Assembly in Geneva after 19 years
News After a gap of 19 years, India will again assume presidency of the 68th Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the top decision-making body of the World Health Organisation, beginning May 18th 2015. Union Health Minister J P Nadda will preside over the WHA session and lead a high-level ...
Read More »‘Track and Trace’ mechanism to check authenticity of medicines
News Government has developed a ‘Track and Trace’ mechanism to check the authenticity of medicines being sold and stored in the country, Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda today informed Rajya Sabha. The primary, secondary and tertiary packs of medicines will have a unique bar code allotted to a ...
Read More »Mission Indradhanush
Scheme Mission Indradhanush was launched by Union Health Minister J.P Nadda on December 25, 2014. It aims to immunize all children against seven vaccine preventable diseases namely diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B by 2020. The Health Ministery has identified 201 high focus districts in the country ...
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