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Anger Grows in Rural UP as Yogi Govt Orders 'Ineligible People' to Return Ration Cards -Abdul Alim Jafri

-NewscLICk.in The government asked the ineligible individuals to surrender their ration cards by May 20 or face disciplinary actions. Lucknow: The scheme of free ration distribution is believed to have had a tremendous impact on the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the recently-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. Buoyed by its victory, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, in the first decision on the second day of his second consecutive term, declared that his...

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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'...

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Experts write to PM against WTO proposal on COVID-19 vaccine waivers -Jacob Koshy

-The Hindu “The current version of the text added new burdensome conditions that would impose additional limits on countries using non-voluntary LICensing” Six experts from India, South Africa and the United States have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reject the current version of a proposal at the World Trade Organisation on intellectual property waivers for COVID-19 medicines, that includes vaccines, drugs and diagnostics. In October 2020, at the WTO’s Trade Related...

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Parl Committee Asks Govt Why It Didn’t Use PSUs To Make COVID Drugs -Banjot Kaur

-TheWire.in * The Parliamentary standing committee on chemicals and fertilisers has produced a report highlighting gaps in the availability of COVID-19 drugs and devices during the pandemic. * The committee has asked the national government why PSUs didn’t receive LICenses to make COVID drugs when private manufacturers did. * The MPs on the committee also spotlighted widespread irrational drug use in COVID-19 management, despite the existence of a standard treatment protocol. New Delhi: The...

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80% foreign medical graduates fail India’s LICence exam. Here’s what they end up doing instead -Kritika Sharma and Abantika Ghosh

-ThePrint.in In 2019, 25.79% Indians cleared Foreign Medical Graduate Exam, a test aspirants with degrees from certain countries need to clear for practise in India. Figure was 14.68% in 2020 and 23.83% in 2021. New Delhi: Every year, thousands of Indians with medical degrees from foreign universities appear for the Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE) — a screening test conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE) and mandated by the National...

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