Finance Minister Arun Jaitley allocated Rs 33,150 crore for the Healthcare Sector

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley allocated Rs 33,150 crore for the healthcare sector today. The government also raised the health insurance […]

Eye Care Hospital by TATA Steel in Odisha

Tata Steel will fund about Rs 42 crore to set up a 100-bed super specialty eye care hospital at Samarjhola […]

Dream big: Dr Harsh Vardhan tells AIIMS medicos 

Odisha to be model state in renewed National Health Mission  The central government is committed to making Odisha a model […]

“Odisha Should Focus on Affordable Optimal Healthcare Services”

Dr Ashok Kumar Mahapatra is Director of newly established All India Instituteof Medical Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar. In an interview with […]

AIIMS-Jodhpur Has Commenced Session with 50 Students

The second prestigious medical institution in the country, AIIMS Jodhpur has commenced its maiden session recently. This is the first […]

Odisha Contract Nurses Call Off Strike Following ESMA Warning

Following the assurance came from the State Government to satisfy their demands the All Odisha Contractual Nurses Association called off […]

RSBY  Model is Quite Revolutionary

Anil Swarup, Director General of Labour, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India,  has translated a dream into reality […]

News Review – October 2010

By Sangita Ghosh De ‘Healthy mother, healthy child’ seems to be becoming a reality Coverage uation Survey 2009 (CES-2009) conducted […]

SevenHills Health City Technology for Better Patient Care

SevenHills Group has over two decades of experience in the healthcare sector. It is one of

If the outcome of a nationwide survey commissioned by UNICEF is anything to go by, Indian mothers, would-be mothers and children are in the pink of health.

SevenHills Health City

[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ] SevenHills Group has over two decades of experience in the healthcare sector. It is one of the first paperless hospitals in India, providing quality healthcare and valuable expertise

Centraly Hosted IT Infrastruture: Need of the Hour

[This article was published in the August 2011 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ] With a total plan outlay of Rs. 1623 Crore, State Data Centres are poised to become the back bone of the Government to Citizen (G2C), Government to Business (G2B) and Government to Government (G2G) interactions in 28 states and seven Union Territories, under the National e-Governance Plan. Once uted, Data Centres being the core of ICT infrastructure in any given set-up would be integrating the hardware, network, storage, and management resources, that will play the role of a central repository, secured data storage and will facilitate online delivery of services for the whole of state.

Snapshot of India’s Development Deficits

As is well known, income or consumption poverty is often used as shorthand to capture economic wellbeing of people. However, there is almost a consensus view among social scientists by now that such a view of poverty is too narrow and it is absolutely necessary to go beyond hunger and malnutrition and include several other features in conceptualising poverty, such as deprivation (or poor access) in terms of clothing, shelter, basic social services including primary health care, sanitation, education, shelter etc., political powerlessness, socio-cultural marginalisation and exclusion, among others. By any reckoning, development deficits in India are huge in terms of attaining the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals).