Many initiatives such as increasing the retirement age of doctors to 65 years, setting up of more medical and nursing schools, multi-skilling of doctors to overcome the shortage of specialists, have been taken by the Centre to improve medical education, Nadda said.

  Hyderabad: In a bid to comply with the provisions of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, the insurance regulator IRDAI has asked all insurance companies asked all the insurers to provide medical insurance for treatment of mental illness from immediate effect....

The scheme aims to target poor, deprived rural families and identified occupational category of urban workers’ families, 8.03 crore in rural and 2.33 crore in urban areas, as per the latest Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) data, and will cover around 50 crore people 

This is the first-ever exercise undertaken by the ministry to rank the country’s major cities on the basis of four parameters of ease of living – governance, social, economic and physical infrastructure

Delhi based Oriental Insurance Company(OIC) has successfully bid for the state of Gujarat at Rs 360 for providing cover upto Rs 50,000 per family. Similarly, Raligare Health Insurance has bagged the mandate from the state of Chattishgarh by offering a rate of Rs 1100 for providing a cover upto Rs 50,000 per family.

Around one lakh Ayushman Mitras will be deployed at both private and government hospitals under the scheme to assist patients coming to health facilities to avail packages under the mission.The Health Ministry has signed a pact with the Skill Development Ministry for the recruitment of 1 lakh ‘Ayushman Mitras’.