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Union Budget 2024: Govt to exempt three more cancer drugs from customs duty
The three drugs are Trastuzumab deruxtecan, Osimertinib and...
Economic Survey highlights urgent need for structured elderly care policies in India
Coupled with insights from a NITI Aayog position paper, the survey...
Budget 2022-23: Widening Health Covers
Satish Gidugu, CEO, Medi Assist Healthcare Services There is a need to reduce the GST rates on insurance premiums, allow input credit on GST paid towards employee health insurance and eliminate perquisite tax on employee medical reimbursements The COVID-19 pandemic...
Economic Survey:Health sector expenditure in 2021-22 projected to be 73 per cent higher than 2019-20
The latest NFHS-5 shows that Total Fertility Rate (TFR), an average number of children per women, has further come down to 2 in 2019-21 from 2.2 in 2015-16. Sex ratio, number of females per 1000 males, in the total population has risen from 991 females in 2015-16...
Govt to spend Rs 64,000 crore under Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission: Prez
President Ram Nath Kovind The small farmers of the country have also benefited from the new changes in the crop insurance scheme. More than Rs one lakh crore have been given as compensation to about eight crore farmers since these changes were introduced President Ram...
‘Bengaluru among 10 southern cities exceeding WHO air quality guidelines’
The primary contributors to worsening the air quality are fossil fuel-powered infrastructural development, industries, transport, waste burning, and construction activity. Chronic exposure to air pollution increases the likelihood of asthma, low birth weight,...
Each dose of Covishield, Covaxin likely to be capped at Rs 275 after getting regular market approval
As of now, Covaxin is priced at Rs 1,200 per dose while Covishield costs Rs 780 in private facilities. The prices include Rs 150 service charge New Delhi: The price of Covishield and Covaxin, the Covid vaccines which are expected to soon get regular market approval...
COVID-19: NeoCov’s potential danger to humans requires further study, says WHO
"It is only one mutation away from becoming dangerous for humans," researchers said in a paper posted on preprint website bioRxiv, and not peer-reviewed yet. However, according to the WHO, the question of whether the NeoCov coronavirus, recently discovered in bats in...
India adds over 2.34 lakh new COVID-19 cases, 893 deaths in last 24 hrs
The case fatality rate is 1.20 per cent. In the last 24 hours, 16,15,993 tests were conducted for COVID-19 New Delhi: India has logged 2,34,281 new COVID-19 cases and 893 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday. There was...
Two years on, India’s battle with COVID-19, its variants continues with no end in sight
Till now, India has reported 4,10,92,522 cases and 4,94,091 fatalities due to COVID-19 and its variants New Delhi: Amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India has completed two years since the first coronavirus case was reported in the country and during this...
Indian Railway’s 695 hospitals, health centres across country integrated with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
"Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)" in all the 695 Railway Hospitals and Health Centres across the country which has proved to be a game-changer for the Railway's health system New Delhi:A total of 695 hospitals and health centres of the Indian Railway...
Odisha made COVID-19 rapid antigen test kit gets ICMR approval
The kit can detect various variants of COVID-19 by using nasopharyngeal swab samples. IMGENEX, CEO, Dr Sujay Singh said with existing facilities, the firm can manufacture 2 lakh kits which can be ramped up to 20 lakh kits per month. The kit is likely to be available...