Concerned over the large number of child deaths due to measles every year, the Centre has launched a massive anti-measles vaccination drive. More than 13 crore children are expected to be covered under the Measles Catch-up Campaign, irrespective of their previous measles vaccination status. The drive has been launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, with support from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), for carrying out the...
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Can the Planning Commission be reinvented? by Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Indivjal Dhasmana & Vrishti Beniwal
Caught in the middle of a maelstrom of controversies, the Planning Commission has been accused of being disconnected from ground realities. Its 12th Plan hopes to fix that. A short while ago, the Congress general secretary and scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, Rahul Gandhi, remarked that members of the Planning Commission are not in touch with the ground realities in India. He could have been somewhat influenced by his father, former...
More »We've to make 1.2 billion count
-The Hindustan Times Where was the seventh billionth baby born on Monday? While Uttar Pradesh seems to have been the destination of choice for the new arrival into this world, the Philippines also staked a claim. Notwithsta-nding the celebrations, there are enough reasons to worry because a growing population means more pressure on the world's stretched resources. For India and its galloping population, the future is much more challenging: while we...
More »ICMR guidelines violated in HPV project: Brinda
-The Hindu Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat has requested Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to take action against those responsible for alleged violation of guidelines in the Human Pipillomavirus (HPV) project. In a letter to Mr. Azad, she drew his attention to an online article published in September in the World Health Organization (WHO) bulletin which concerns the the issue of HPV vaccine...
More »Paying the price: Institutional delivery costs keep pregnant women at home by Tanvi Nalin
With institutional healthcare being prohibitively expensive, more women in rural India are choosing to deliver at home than in hospitals and healthcare facilities, says a new report brought out by Chittorgarh-based NGO, Prayas, in partnership with Oxfam India. The 'Study of the trends in out-of-pocket payments in healthcare during National Rural Health Mission period (2005-2010)', released on October 12 in the national capital, was conducted across five Indian states - Assam,...
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