-The Indian Express The Indian Express travels across Jamui, Sheikhpura and Patna districts and tracks down nearly 600 entries shown as tested to find glaring gaps between what’s on paper — and what’s on the ground. Jamui, Patna and Sheikhpura: Over three days last month, three Primary Health Centres (PHC) in Bihar’s Jamui district tested 588 residents for Covid — all were negative. The name, age and cell number of each person...
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Travails of ASHA Workers During COVID-19 Call for Renewed Focus on Public Health -Deepanshu Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, Advaita Singh, Sunanda Mishra and Shivani Agarwal
-TheWire.in ASHA workers and other community healthcare workers have experienced extra working hours, loss of pay and social apathy during the pandemic. Walking into 2021, if there was one positive to be identified with the large-scale outbreak of a pandemic in 2020 in India, and the rest of the developing world, it would have been this: a primary focus given by most governments and their executive agencies to improve healthcare services and...
More »Bird flu confirmed in 7 states; samples from Delhi, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh sent for testing
-PTI/ The Indian Express Similarly in Maharashtra, the samples of dead crows from Mumbai, Thane, Dapoli, Parbhani and Beed districts have been sent to Bhopal-based ICAR-National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (ICAR-NIHSAD), it added. The Centre on Saturday said the outbreak of bird flu or avian influenza has been reported in Uttar Pradesh, taking the total number of affected states to seven. However, the confirmation of bird flu in Delhi, Chhattisgarh and...
More »Chhattisgarh says no to the use of Covaxin till clinical trial processes accomplished -Ejaz Kaiser
-The New Indian Express The state health minister T S Singh Deo said that it is "Not Safe" to use any vaccine, which remains in clinical trial mode. RAIPUR: Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh government has categorically declared that it is not in favour of using indigenous Covid19-Covaxin in the vaccination process in the state unless it has completed the recommended testing process with absolute authentication and success. The state health minister T S Singh Deo...
More »Data: NFHS-5 reveals the growing risk of Lifestyle diseases in India -Bharath Kancharla
-Factly.in The Phase-1 findings of the 5th edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) were recently released. For the first time, the survey captured data on the proportion of the adult population suffering from lifestyle-induced diseases like Diabetes & Hypertension. The data reveals the growing risk of such diseases in India. Here is a detailed review. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare recently released key findings of Phase-1 of the...
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