-CaravanMagazine.in On 15 August 2021, marking India’s 75th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a crowd-packed Red Fort. “Just as we are making sure that no person or no class should be left behind in the development journey of society, similarly no part of the country, no corner of the country, should be left behind,” he told the crowd. “Development should be all-round, development should be all-pervasive, development should be...
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World Health Organisation revises blood pressure control guidelines -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New guidelines recommend 130 as upper number threshold for starting Medicines for anyone with risk factors or a history of cardiovascular disease and 140/90 for others New guidelines for blood pressure control released by the World Health Organisation on Wednesday recommend 130 as the upper number threshold for starting Medicines for anyone with risk factors or a history of cardiovascular disease and 140/90 for others. The guidelines on when to start...
More »Junior union minister refuses to increase paltry pension under NSAP -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph India spends only 0.04 per cent of its GDP on social security pension; several states add to the pension from their own funds Sulochana Behera eagerly waits for her old-age pension of Rs 500 every month at her home in Garh Nipania village in Puri district, Odisha. Within hours of receiving the sum, the widowed Sulochana spends it all on Medicine and food that barely last a week. She then starts...
More »Will we learn anything from the mass pyres and floating bodies? -Harsh Mander
-Scroll.in The pandemic has starkly revealed that India has failed to provide even basic health-care to the majority of its citizens. As the gravest health emergency to overwhelm the globe in a century continues to rage, the unbridled Covid-19 virus has laid bare the abject failure of India’s health system to secure even elementary levels of health-care for its people. Everything fell short disastrously, sometimes catastrophically: hospital beds, doctors, nurses, testing kits, medical...
More »Doctors warn that current weather conditions and carelessness could aggravate COVID-19 symptoms -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu General public should strictly follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour to ensure that places with common air conditioning and poor ventilation do not prove to be a super-spreader zone. The lingering second COVID-19 wave and the current weather — combination of high heat and humidity prevailing across some parts of India — has prompted doctors to caution the general public to strictly follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour to ensure that places with common...
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