-The Economic Times A campaign called 'Bridge the Care Gap' has been lobbying political parties to commit to the implementation of the Mental Healthcare Act and the National Mental Health Policy On April 2, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, and other senior Congress leaders unveiled the party's manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress website crashed with a huge spike in traffic. Most analyses of the manifesto focused on the usual themes...
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About 85% of Ujjwala beneficiaries in four States still use earthen stoves -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Study recommends that the scheme should move beyond benefits for women alone to change household behaviour NEW DELHI: The hidden truth of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY), being touted in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) election campaigning as one of the big successes of the incumbent government, is that most rural households with LPG (liquiefied petroleum gas) connections still use chulhas with firewood or dung cakes, to the detriment...
More »To shield patents, firms seek information on generic drug launches -Sushmi Dey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In what is being seen as an attempt to delay launch of low priced generic medicines, multinational drug makers have asked the government to create a registry providing information about all drug applications pending manufacturing and marketing approval. The proposal, if accepted by the government, will help ‘big pharma’ pre-emptively challenge generic drug makers in court for allegedly infringing upon their patents and in turn blocking...
More »Primary care system central to universal Health coverage: WHO
-The Hindu Business Line Affordable quality Healthcare at the community level across age groups is the key to advancing universal Health coverage, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. “A well-functioning primary care system that meets most of a person’s Health needs, throughout the life, is central to universal Health coverage (UHC),” said Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia. The theme of this year’s World Health Day, celebrated on April...
More »MPs' Development Funds Unspent = Cost Of Building 100,000 Houses After Cyclone Gaja -Faizi Noor Ahmad
-IndiaSpend.com Mumbai: Members of Parliament (MP) in the 16th Lok Sabha utilised 85% of the developmental funds they were allocated, leaving 15% unutilised--Rs 1,806.08 crore of the total amount of Rs 12,051.36 crore, a remainder larger than the Rs 1,700 crore that the Tamil Nadu government will spend to build 100,000 houses for people displaced by Cyclone Gaja. MPs from Meghalaya, Delhi, Chandigarh, Gujarat and Sikkim led the country in utilising their...
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