-The Telegraph Late treatment raises risk of deformities: Study Several thousand leprosy patients in India are diagnosed with preventable deformities each year because they fail to recognise symptoms or receive delayed treatment, Health researchers have cautioned, 13 years after India declared the disease had been “eliminated”. A study covering Bengal and four other states has found that leprosy patients who delayed seeking medical advice by at least three months or whose Healthcare providers...
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Ayushman Bharat Claims Touch Rs 3,077 Crore, Gujarat Tops List -Anoo Bhuyan
-TheWire.in Until now, no data on Ayushman Bharat had been made available other than in tweets by the National Health Authority. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has finally revealed some numbers on its flagship Ayushman Bharat Health insurance scheme in response to a question asked in parliament this session. In spite of having been popularised as the “world’s largest Healthcare scheme” since 2018, data pertaining to the scheme has so far only...
More »Prudent prescription: on MSME sector
-The Hindu An RBI panel’s suggestions on the MSME sector cut to the heart of crucial issues The micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector in India is not only a key engine of growth, contributing more than 28% of the GDP and about 45% to manufacturing output. It is also a true reflection of economics where people really matter. Providing employment to about 111 million people, the sector’s Health is crucial...
More »Medical investigators say Muzaffarpur deaths probably due to malnutrition and delayed care
-The Telegraph The team of doctors investigating the deaths found no trace of litchi in at least 40 per cent of children who died A team of doctors investigating the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) deaths in Muzaffarpur has claimed that the attribution to litchi is likely to be wrong and that it found no trace of litchi in at least 40 per cent of children who succumbed to AES-like symptoms in the...
More »AES in Bihar: Poor anganwadi centres failed to deliver
-Down to Earth The state also has the highest case of malnourished children (43.9 per cent) in India Imagine a dilapidated room, with no plaster on the walls and any doors, window panes — this is what an anganwadi centre (AWC) in Bihar’s Talimpur village in East Champaran district looks like. More, the building has neither a toilet, hand washing facility nor drinking water. “I have to carry chairs, utensils and...
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