Former PM Manmohan Singh, Wife Take Covid-19 Vaccine Shot
Manmohan Singh, former prime minister, on Thursday took his first dose of Covid-19 vaccination at AIIMS in Delhi. Singh was […]
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PM Inaugurates New Facility at Asian Heart Institute
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh along with wife Gursharan Kaur visited the Asian Heart Institute (AHI), one of the renown hospitals in […]
FDI in Pharma May Get Relaxation
After much hullabaloo the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy for Pharma may get reconsideration. As per a senior finance minister […]
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US wants India to lift import ban on dairy products The US has sought to impress upon India to lift […]
Healthcare spend to rise to 2.5 percent of GDP
The Planning Commission in their document- Faster, Sustainable and More Inclusive Growth: An Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan, […]
Beedi workers to get health insurance
A meeting of the Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, decided to extend the insurance cover to the beedi workers spread across the country, with the government spending an estimated Rs 311.25 crore on it.
Popular drugs are Irrational, says Panel
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s high-level expert group on universal health coverage claims that most common drugs consumed in India are “irrational, needless or useless”.
Institute Body of AIIMS reconstituted
The highest decision making group in AIIMS, the Institute Body has been reconstituted by the health ministry by bringing in some new names.
Super-specialty eye hospital in Patna soon
Patna will soon have a super-specialty eye hospital. It will be an autonomous body and will have a separate cadre for doctors. Till its own building comes up in the phase-wise manner it will function at the existing Rajendaranagar Hospital in Patna.
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[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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AIIMS like Ayurveda institute to come up in New Delhi
An AIIMS like Ayurveda institute will be set up in the capital to carry out clinical research, drug safety uation and scientific validation of the traditional Indian system of medicine.
Amartya Sen suggests expanding healthcare delivery
Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, delivering a public on lecture
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[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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