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Galaxy Health launches its first products with sum insured options from Rs 3 lakhs to Rs 1 crore
(Lto R) S Guruprakash, chief marketing officer, G Srinivasan, MD...
Over 5 lakh elderly above 70 enroll for Ayushman cards; highest from MP, Kerala
Madhya Pradesh had the highest number of applications for...
Govt notifies IRDA’s new regulations on `Registration of Indian Insurance companies” facilitating larger PE investment
-Investment through Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) has been made optional for Private Equity (PE) Funds enabling them to directly invest in insurance companies, providing more flexibility, Now, subsidiary companies are also allowed to be promotors of insurance...
China’s factories to the world brace for Tsunami of Covid cases
The resulting eruption in infections is set to be a key test for a vast network of factories that account for almost one-third of the world’s manufacturing output. Those plants are now taking extraordinary steps to ward off infections From locking in workers to...
Ambulance Facility at Toll Plazas
Over 900 Ambulances have been deployed by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) at a gap of 50km or at toll plazas on the National Highways (NH) to ensure medical treatment to accident victims.NHAI has issued instructions to spread awareness about the 1033...
Karnataka govt simultaneously launches 114 ‘Namma Clinics’ across State
Each Namma Clinic is expected to cater to a population of 10,000 to 20,000. The 12 kinds of services include pregnancy, postnatal, neonatal care, childhood and adolescent care, universal immunisation services, family welfare, contraceptive, infectious disease...
India’s COVID-19 tally not rising due to hybrid immunity -Top Health Expert
New Delhi: COVID-19 Working Group NTAGI Chairman N K Arora on Wednesday said that despite South Asian countries reporting an increase in COVID-19 cases, India is not getting affected because of hybrid immunization. However, Dr. Arora warned that India still needs to...
Shift work affects risk of Covid-19, severity of infection, shows research
"However, they did not have a higher risk of getting a more severe outcome of the infection, compared to those not working face-to-face with others," said Bjorn Bjorvatn, Professor at the University of Bergen Shift work and working face-to-face with others affect the...
AIIMS Delhi server attack originated from China, say government sources; data from 5 servers safely retrieved
"AIIMS Delhi server attack was by the Chinese, FIR details that the attack had originated from China. Of 100 servers (40 physical and 60 virtual), five physical servers were successfully infiltrated by the hackers. The damage would have been far worse but is now...
New Zealand passes minimum age law aiming to ban smoking for next generation
The law states that tobacco can't ever be sold to anybody born on or after January 1, 2009 - and from now on, the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up and up New Zealand is not the only nation pushing to ban smoking for the next generations. In June, a...
2302 claims of Rs 50 lakh each cleared under insurance scheme for health workers fighting Covid: Govt
Fifty-three claims have been paid to the families of doctors in Bihar, 64 in Uttar Pradesh, 43 in Maharashtra, 38 in Karnataka and 37 each in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in a written reply to a question in...
Too soon to call end to COVID-19 emergency, GAVI chief says
A World Health Organization (WHO) body meets every few months to decide whether the new coronavirus, which emerged three years ago in China's Wuhan, still represents a "public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)". Reuters: The head of the GAVI global...