Six fresh cases of dengue have been reported in the last one week in Delhi, taking the tally to 61, according to a civic report released on Monday.Till March 26 this year, 55 cases of dengue were recorded in the city. Six fresh cases have been reported in the last one week, it said. According … Read more
Gurgaon: The HrHeal portal launched last year by the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) to tackle the Covid crisis and offer telemedicine services to Covid patients will soon provide “other general health services” as well. A senior GMDA official privy to the matter said that GMDA would be developing the portal as a platform for … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Kaushik Mitra, Senior Director, Cloud ERP, Oracle India to know more about cloud technology impacting healthcare in the current digitilization drive. The healthcare and pharma sectors have been at the forefront during the COVID crisis. What do you think would be the role of healthcare in India’s post-pandemic economic … Read more
The Supreme Court on Thursday took the suo moto cognisance of the several high court hearings underway regarding Covid-19 preparedness across the country and issued a notice to the Centre, states and UTs on the supply of Covid care essentials, such as oxygen and medicines. The Supreme Court on Friday allowed senior counsel Harish Salve … Read more
Instead, should countercyclical fiscal policy become part of our policy lexicon to be used judiciously, but unapologetically? The clamour for fiscal stimulus is, incidentally, not a product of the Covid pandemic. Synopsis Thus, it might be prudent to go the extra mile to consolidate debt when the economy is booming. A way to formalise this … Read more
New Delhi: AIIMS has made enormous contributions to patient care, research and education during the COVID crisis, and daily battles fought by the AIIMS fraternity must be remembered, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Monday. Vardhan presided over the 47th Convocation Ceremony at AIIMS, New Delhi along with Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO SEARO. … Read more
As active infections rise dramatically, Delhi could soon run out of ICU beds and ventilators. And this is after a Central government panel had advised Delhi to prepare for 15,000 fresh cases every day; right now, the city has half that number of daily cases. Source link
The flexibility that RBI has been able to show in response to the Covid-19 crisis is the most recent case in point. Synopsis But the key point is that the monetary policy is working, and GoI and RBI need to allow it to continue. What do we mean by ‘functioning quite well’? First, RBI responds … Read more
New Delhi: The first phase of the Census and the exercise to update the National Population Register (NPR), scheduled for this year but deferred due to the coronavirus outbreak, may be delayed by a year as there is no sign of slowdown of the pandemic. The Indian census is one of the largest administrative and … Read more
The corporate loans will be restructured based on the recommendations of the K V Kamath committee. The country’s second largest lender Punjab National Bank on Monday said it expects to restructure loans worth about Rs 40,000 crore as per RBI-approved guidelines, scheduled to be out soon. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had earlier this month … Read more