Manpreet Singh Ayali, chairman of Zila Parishad-cum-District Health Monitoring Planning Committee, has said Rs 12 crore are being spent in this current financial year under the various schemes of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to provide better health facilities to the people of rural areas. Ayali was addressing a meeting of District Level Health Monitoring Planning Committee at Zila Parishad Complex on Friday. Ayali further said that the birth rate has...
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Ailing Orissa by Prafulla Das
Contaminated water sources and the virtual absence of health care claim dozens of lives in the State, now in the grip of cholera. COME monsoon and the backward regions of Orissa are in the grip of water-borne diseases. This year too has been no different. According to official figures, 150 people had died of cholera and diarrhoea in the State as on September 15. Unofficial reports put the toll at more...
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Farmers have a reason to cheer because the cabinet on Tuesday gave nod to the developed land compensation scheme of Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB). The scheme will do away with giving cash as compensation to land losers. Instead, they will get a whopping 9,583 sqft of developed land per every acre of land acquired by the KIADB. The compensation deal has been brought on par with the BDA...
More »Flu kills 35 in a month at Warud in Maharashtra by Jaideep Hardikar
Atleast 35 people, mostly adults, have died of various infections, including swine flu, at Warud in Amravati district in a month, with seven deaths occurring in the past 24 hours. The town, which is famous for its orange cultivation, is around 100 km from Nagpur. Health officials blamed the high casualty number on a recent policy change. The government centralised purchase of medicines for public hospitals earlier this year citing corruption...
More »Kids born in Kerala, Delhi likely to have longest lives by Kounteya Sinha
It isn't called God's own country for nothing — going by life expectancy statistics, Kerala will be the best place in India to be born in, followed by Delhi. An average Indian, in 2021, will live four years more than today. But Keralas average will exceed India's by about six years. According to the Union health ministry's latest projections, the life expectancy at birth (LEB) the average number of years...
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