Door-to-door and village-to-village surveys carried out by researchers of the Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana detected a total of 9,291 suicides that were committed by farmers in six districts of Punjab during the period from 2000 to 2018. Situated in the Malwa region of Punjab, which is known for cotton farming and the prevalence of cancer among its population, Sangrur (2,506) witnessed the highest number of...
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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 »'One in Seven Persons in Punjab Are Dependent on Addictive Substances': Report -Vivek Gupta
-TheWire.in In a major concern, the report by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, notes among those consuming opioids or 'chitta', the number of injecting Drug Users has gone up considerably. Chandigarh: One in seven (15%) in Punjab are currently dependent on addictive substances, both licit and illicit. In absolute numbers, it translates into 40 lakh people, a new report by Chandigarh-based Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and...
More »Display information on 7 common antibiotics: Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu CDSCO sends letter to manufacturers Alerted by the Union Health Ministry’s pharmaceutical watchdog, the National Co-ordination Centre of the Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI), on adverse reactions that were being reported from some commonly-used antibiotics, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has now asked manufacturers to ensure that this information be made available to the general public. CDSCO has written to drug manufacturers, to mention in leaflets inserted into drug...
More »Three northeastern States emerge as new HIV hotspots
-The Hindu Health Ministry attributes rise of incidence in Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura to injecting Drug Users and unsafe sexual practices Kolkata: The good news is that there has been a steady decline in the number of HIV cases in India. The bad news is that Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura have emerged as the new hotspots for HIV, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Lok Sabha reply In response to a...
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