Health Ministry Launches Disease Surveillance Programme to Strengthen Bio-Emergency Response
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) to strengthen India’s preparedness and […]
NATIONAL-DISASTER-MANAGEMENT-AUTHORITY
Joint Advisory from Union Health Ministry and NDMA for Preventing Hospital Fires in Summer
In response to the escalating temperatures during the summer months, the Union Health Ministry and the National Disaster Management Authority […]
NEWS REVIEW – INDIA
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
India News
Health in emergency to be on concurrent list
The Health Ministry is working on a Bill which, if all goes to plan, will place public health in times of natural disasters, epidemic outbreaks and acts of terror in the Concurrent List before the end of this year, giving the Centre the power to independently promulgate laws and lay down rules. Public health is so far a state subject, exclusively in the domain of state governments.
