-The Hindu Kerala has the lowest MMR of 46, followed by Maharashtra with 61 and Tamil Nadu 66 Chennai: The latest Sample Registration System (SRS) data indicating the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has brought glad tidings. As per the data, the MMR (number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births) has dropped from 167 (in 2011-2013, the last SRS period) to 130 for the country. This 28% drop is an achievement arising from...
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NPPA's drug price fixing power to be curbed -Sushmi Dey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In an attempt to revamp drug price regulation in the country, while strengthening implementation and market monitoring, the government is set to restructure the regulator, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA). The authority, which is expected to be re-christened soon, will be replaced by a board or a council with four full-time members, including the chairman. The other THRee members — an economist, a costing specialist and...
More »Bureaucrats to visit villages to highlight schemes -Prashant K Nand and Elizabeth Roche
-Livemint.com Govt will send 700 bureaucrats to over 45,000 villages to ensure the masses have access to welfare schemes and showcase livelihood models to women and farmers New Delhi: At a time when rural distress and protests by farmers are making headlines, the central government will send 700 bureaucrats to more than 45,000 villages to not only ensure that the masses have access to social welfare schemes but also showcase alternative livelihood...
More »Jharkhand: No food at home, woman died; govt says she had money in bank -Prashant Pandey
-The Indian Express Officials said Devi was suffering from parenchymal haematoma, or bleeding inside the brain, for which she was treated at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi. Further, they said, her bank account had Rs 2,375. Mangargaddi (Giridih): THE JHARKHAND government has cited medical and bank records to deny reports that the death of a woman in Giridih last week was due to starvation. But her family maintains...
More »No food for four days, woman starves to death in Jharkhand -Dharambir Kumar Sinha
-IndiaToday.in A 45-year-old reportedly woman, Meena Musahar, died of starvation in Jharkhand on Monday. It is alleged she was going without food for four days before she died. After falling ill on Monday morning, she was carried to the nearest hospital by her son where she was declared 'brought dead'. The death of Meena Musahar, a resident of Itkhori village of Prem nagar area, is the second such incident in the past THRee...
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