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Peak Re develops a new cancer multi-protection solution for Vietnam 

It is part of the company’s strategy to support the evolving needs of the emerging middle class and address the protection gaps in emerging Asia.Peak Re plans to offer more solutions that boost affordable and simple insurance products in Asia beyond Vietnam, Peak Re is also actively engaging in developing customised solutions for different protection needs in other Asian markets, including China, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Cambodia.

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Life expectancy in India down by 2.6 years due to air pollution: Study

“The deadly tally broken up by diseases shows that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to air pollution at 49% is responsible for close to half of deaths, followed by lung cancer deaths at 33 per cent, diabetes and ischaemic heart disease at 22 per cent each and stroke at 15 per cent. It is disturbing how COPD, lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease dominate the dubious tally,” it said.

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Govt plans to re-introduce National Medical Commission Bill

After its introduction in the Lower House of parliament in 2017, the Bill, which aimed at replacing the Medical Council of India Act, 1956 and included the contentious provision of a “bridge course” to allow practitioners of alternative medicines to pursue allopathy, was referred to a Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee following massive protests from the medical fraternity. 

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