With an allocation of Rs.33,152 crore for health, the government will barely be able to keep the existing healthcare programmes operational. The ambitious National Health Assurance Mission (NHAM), which was supposed to provide citizens basic healthcare services, is...
With increased funding and stepped-up investments in health systems, India today said it expects to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality and improving maternal health this year. With an almost 400 per cent increase in federal funding...
Public health activists expressed dismay and outrage at the central government’s decision to scrap the idea of a centrally supported free drug scheme. The scheme was initiated after several studies had shown that medicines constitute about 67% of people’s...
The number of women consuming tobacco products has doubled over 15 years, according to a report by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI).While only 10% of women consumed tobacco products during the mid- and late-1990s, the number has increased to 20% in recent...
The Labour Ministry will transfer the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to the Health Ministry from April 1, Parliament was informed today. “The government has decided to transfer RSBY from Ministry of Labour and Employment to the Ministry of Health and Family...
The Union Budget talks of all the right things on healthcare. There is mention of a need to provide medical services in each village, more All India Institutes of Medical Sciences or AIIMS-like institutions are being planned, there is fillip to the insurance sector,...