-The Times of India It has become fashionable to announce the setting up of new AIIMS or AIIMS-like institutes in every annual union budget. After the first six were announced in 2006, finance minister Arun Jaitley announced the setting up of four more in the last budget and another six in the current one, taking the total number to 16, not counting the original one in Delhi. While announcing new AIIMS...
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Patients looking for quick fixes, chemists & quacks spur antibiotics resistance -Roli Srivastava
-The Times of India PUNE: Family physician Dr Kumar Mandhare has been practising for 27 years in Koregaon Park in Pune, treating a wide variety of patients. Over the last few years, however, he has observed a new set of patients - on whom once-effective antibiotics drugs don't work. He pegs their number at 30 to 40% of the patients he gets, usually people who have found a quick fix solution to...
More »Rajasthan govt. opens mother’s milk bank -Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu With Jeevan Dhara, govt. hopes to bring down infant morality rate Rajasthan's first State-run human milk bank, "Jeevan Dhara", was inaugurated by Health Minister Rajendra Rathore at the Mahila Chikitsalaya here on Thursday. He said the government would set up such banks across the State. The first mother's milk bank in the State was started by a non-governmental organisation in a government Hospital in Udaipur. "Jeevan Dhara" has been started in collaboration...
More »Vadra made gains from land licences: CAG -Ajay Sura
-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: Five companies, including Robert Vadra's Skylight Hospitality, bought licences to build colonies from the Haryana government for Rs 52.26 crore. They went on to sell these licences to other companies at a massive premium and collectively earned Rs 267.47 crore in a short span of time. But the profit of Rs 215.21 crore wasn't shared with the department of town and country planning despite bilateral agreements...
More »Overhaul brakes on insurance scheme for poor -M Saraswathy
-Business Standard Sector players await government's decision on future of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana The government-sponsored Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is set to undergo a overhaul with a proposal to have only public general insurers manage the scheme through a trust-like structure. Sources said the bids that would have been considered for new contracts have been left unopened as the stakeholders are awaiting the government's decision on its future progress. A senior public...
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