-NDTV.com Delhi logged 965 fresh Covid cases over a 24-hour period on Thursday -- a positivity rate of 4.71 per cent -- while one person died due to the infection, according to data from the health department. New Delhi: The precautionary vaccine dose for Covid will be available free for the 18-59 age group in all Hospitals run by the Delhi government. The Arvind Kejriwal government's order -- expected for a while...
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Is the govt. doing enough for the Jan Aushadhi scheme?
On Janaushadhi Diwas this year (i.e., March 7th, 2022), Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi stated that the poor and the middle-class benefited from the 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' that were set up to provide generic drugs at affordable prices. He said that the poor and the middle class saved around Rs.13,000 crore through these stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of COVID 19 crisis, the 'Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India'...
More »Hospitals fined for fake Ayushman Bharat claims -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu 144 institutions were de-empanelled Non-genuine 18,606 hospital transactions were detected in the Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) with penalty amounting to Rs.29.72 crore being levied on erring Hospitals. Also 144 Hospitals were de-empanelled from the scheme based on confirmed fraudulent behavior, said the Health Ministry in its reply to the Parliament in the recently concluded session. The Ministry added that the National Health Authority (NHA)—the implementing agency...
More »Covishield, Covaxin to now cost private Hospitals Rs 225 per dose -Milan Sharma
-IndiaToday.in Private Hospitals will now be able to buy a single dose of Covid-19 vaccines Covishield and Covaxin at Rs 225. A single dose of the Serum Institute of India's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin will now cost private Hospitals Rs 225. Private Hospitals will charge Rs 150 for administering the dose. Adar Poonawalla, CEO of SII, said in a tweet on Saturday that the vaccine maker has decided to slash the prices...
More »It Takes a Village to Birth A Healthy Mom and Baby -Sreya Deb
-TheCitizen.in Improved antenatal care in Meghalaya A recent report submitted on March 20 to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from the state of Meghalaya showed that 877 newborns, and 61 pregnant women died during the pandemic. The pregnant women decided against hospital delivery out of fear of contracting Covid. A decade ago, infant mortality in Meghalaya was the same as the all-India average, at 47 deaths per 1000 births. While it has...
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