-The Hindu Business Line Large inter-State variations in funding, shortcomings in quality of care and neglect of urban health continue to haunt the sector Since Independence, India has made some notable gains on the health front. For instance, life expectancy at birth has increased, infant mortality and crude death rates have fallen steeply, DISEases such as smallpox, polio and guinea worm have been eradicated, and leprosy is on the verge of getting...
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Disquiet over govt.’s new policy for rare DISEases -Bindu Shajan Perappadan and Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu The policy has absolutely no consideration for Group 3 patients who require lifelong treatment support, say organisations Caregivers to patients with ‘rare DISEases’ and affiliated organisations are dissatisfied with the National Policy for Rare DISEases, 2021 announced on Wednesday. Though the document specifies increasing the government support for treating patients with a ‘rare DISEase’— from ₹15 lakh to ₹20 lakh — caregivers say this doesn’t reflect actual costs of treatment. There...
More »Can New Mortality Data Explain India's Low COVID Death Numbers? -Rukmini S
-IndiaSpend.com As researchers caution against declaring India's second COVID-19 wave to be less deadly than the first, we look for clues in excess mortality data from Kerala and Mumbai to shed light on India's comparatively low COVID-19 mortality Chennai: More than one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, India is beginning to take the first steps towards answering a key question--is there something unusual about COVID-19 mortality in India? Mortality is at the...
More »As Covid Rises, India's 'R' Factor Highest In A Year. What It Means -Chandrashekar Srinivasan
-NDTV The 'R' factor - a statistic used worldwide to track, and potentially, control the spread of the virus - is a measure of how many people are being infected by one person New Delhi: Concern over an alarming increase in new coronavirus cases in India - 131,750 over the past 72 hours - was underlined Monday by a spike in the 'R', or 'reproduction rate', of the virus, which has jumped...
More »Deadly drug-resistant superbug found in the wild in Andamans -Esha Roy
-The Indian Express This study was carried out by the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi in collaboration with the Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University. A deadly hospital pathogen, the Candida Auris, has for the first time been identified in the environment, off the coast of South Andaman district in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. This study was carried out by the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi in collaboration with...
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