India will soon ban blood tests to detect tuberculosis (TB) that are widely available across the country. An expert group set up by the Drug Controller General of India has found that blood tests are mostly inaccurate for TB detection. It has recommended to the Union health ministry to immediately ban them. A ministry official said "The DCGI had set up an eight-member committee to look at whether a proposal by the...
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MPs can fund work from discretionary quota by Asit Ranjan Mishra
MPLADS funds will only be used for the material component of the projects Federal lawmakers can now use their discretionary funds to finance work taken up under the government’s flagship jobs scheme, a move aimed at creating more lasting community assets in the villages. The government has decided to converge the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). But MPLADS funds...
More »After RTI and RTE, now right to drinking water by Chetan Chauhan
After right to education and information, citizens will soon get right to clean drinking water and sanitation. In a new draft National Water Policy, the water resources ministry has suggested that the access to safe drinking water and sanitation be regarded as a right. Around one-third of the Indians don't have access to clean drinking water and more than half of the country's population to clean sanitation. Only 42.2% people in Jharkhand and...
More »West Bengal Governor counters Mamata on farmers' suicide by Priyanka Gupta
West Bengal Governor MK Naryanan has refuted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that no farmers have committed suicides. He said the matter needs to be addressed urgently. "There is no denying the fact that farmers have committed suicide and that they are in debt. We need to do something about it," Narayanan said. He was outspoken on the issue of crib deaths too, calling them a matter of great concern. "Baby deaths...
More »TB rule change for private doctors
-The Telegraph The Union health ministry plans to initiate a process to make tuberculosis a notifiable DISEase, compelling all private doctors nationwide to keep local health authorities informed about their TB patients. A senior health official said the notification would mean private practitioners would have to inform health authorities about patients who show up with symptoms for the first time and patients treated earlier who may have developed drug-resistant TB. “This is not...
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