The decision to include healthcare workers in the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana was announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the presentation of the interim Union Budget. File After the Central government announced its decision to include Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and Anganwadi workers and helpers into the free cover for health … Read more
File photo of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his intervention to release funds under the National Health Mission (NHM) to the State. In her letter dated November 29, Ms. Banerjee said that … Read more
By Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay New Delhi: Public health as a subject is of prime importance to every nation. Especially, India with its 1.4 billion population faces an uphill task in providing universal and affordable healthcare. Without leveraging technology at scale, such aspirations will only remain a pipe dream. Importantly, the COVID pandemic has shown the world … Read more
By Vikram Thaploo New Delhi: India has recognized the importance of primary healthcare early on, but fully implementing it has posed challenges, particularly in rural and remote areas. Despite 86 per cent of medical visits being from rural populations, the majority must travel more than 100 km to access health care and public health facilities. … Read more
New Delhi : Prospects that digital health can provide are limitless provided proper implementation with coordination of all stakeholders, said National Health Authority Chief Executive Officer RS Sharma on Friday. “Digital technology is not an end to achieving healthcare but it can facilitate innovations and transform health making it more accessible, effective and time-saving,” he … Read more
Mizoram government has imposed new Covid-19 guidelines on Friday. (PTI Image) Even with national Covid-19 average under control, a small village in Mizoram is facing a disproportionately large number of cases out of which 16 per cent belong to people of the age group between 1-10 years. Prevalence of Covid among children in this town … Read more
by Sumit Goswami Despite the central government’s intentions of increasing its healthcare spend, the second wave of Covid-19 could not save the lives of thousands of people. Worldwide reports and experts say that digitization, with the help of technologies like AI and ML, can save developing economies as India. What India hoped to achieveIn 2021, … Read more
With the increasing prevalence of diabetes, there seems to be a rise in the incidence of Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) as well. (Reuters Image) By Sayantani Chatterjee The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of patients with diabetes mellitus or most commonly referred to as diabetes. A Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology study which referred to … Read more
Ayushmaan Bharat and the National Health Mission will play a vital role in ensuring that no one is left behind when it comes to accessibility and affordability of quality of healthcare. By Mamta Carroll The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed decades of progress in healthcare, poverty alleviation and mass education. The health, economic and social crises … Read more
NEW DELHI: The ambitious National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, under which every Indian will get a health ID that will ease access to medical services has been rolled out on a pilot mode in six union territories. The National Health Authority (NHA), the apex agency responsible for … Read more