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Budget-26-27:Improving insurance affordability and access
Recent policy measures, such as the exemption of insurance premiums...
NHA chief emphasises strategic importance of building a trusted, federated AI ecosystem for healthcare
Citing AB PM-JAY (Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya...
Bajaj Allianz Life Superwoman Term launched
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, has launched Bajaj Allianz Life Superwoman Term (SWT), a comprehensive protection solution exclusively for women. This pioneering solution goes beyond traditional life insurance, offering financial security with term insurance benefits,...
Slow down: Indian general insurance industry grows premium by just 6.2% to almost Rs 3.08 trillion in FY 25
The top five players -New India Assurance(with a market share of 12.56 per cent), ICICI Lombard General Insurance(8.72 per cent), Bajaj Allianz General Insurance(6.96 per cent), United India Insurance(6.53 per cent), Oriental Insurance(6.45 per cent) , have expanded...
Cancer remains most financially burdensome disease in India
Piyush Jain, Khushboo Jain, and Vikas Kaul, Co-founders of CarePal Group said, "Cancer is the single largest illness where patients face the highest financial distress. With over 30% of funds raised on Impact Guru going towards cancer treatments, crowdfunding has...
World Health Day: India’s Strides In Public Health
As of April 6, 2025, e-Sanjeevani has served over 36 crore patients through teleconsultations since its launch in 2020, making healthcare accessible remotely with 232,291 providers onboarded to date,” according to the ministry. eSanjeevani, India’s National...
Kerala launches digital payment system, online services in govt hospitals
Kerala Health Minister Veena George The system enables payments for services at health centres statewide using credit cards, debit cards, and UPI (Google Pay, PhonePe), among other methods. This initiative has been carried out in collaboration with the Information...
Delhi govt inks a MoU with the Centre to implement AB-PMJAY
With this, Delhi has become the 35th state/Union Territory to implement the health insurance scheme. West Bengal is now the only state which has not implemented the scheme New Delhi: In a move towards expanding people's access to healthcare in the national capital,...
Can med for rare disorder SMA be made available at lower price in India: SC to drug manufacturer
During the hearing on Friday, the bench was told by senior advocate Anand Grover, appearing for a 24-year-old woman, that the price of the medicine for SMA patients is cheaper in Pakistan and China because of intervention of the governments of those countries. New...
WHO initiates a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO The two-day simulation, Exercise Polaris, tested WHO’s Global Health Emergency Corps (GHEC), a framework designed to strengthen countries’ emergency workforce, coordinate the deployment of surge teams and experts, and...
Govt tightens biosecurity rules as bird flu spreads beyond poultry
Animal Husbandry and Dairying Secretary Alka Upadhyaya chaired a high-level meeting where officials agreed on a three-pronged strategy to tackle the crisis.The approach includes implementing stricter hygiene practices and biosecurity protocols at poultry farms to...
ED conducts raids in Jharkhand Ayushman Bharat ‘fraud’ case, MD India, Safeway, Medi Assist under scanner
The ED, agency sources said, suspects that "proceeds of crime" were generated through systematic "fraud" within the Ayushman Bharat scheme through "manipulation" of hospital empanelment and processing of "fake" claims facilitated by a "nexus" demanding commissions and...