Mansukh L. Mandaviya replaced Dr Harsh Vardhan as Minister of Health and Family Welfare, following the reshuffle of the Union Cabinet by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week. Who is the new health minister? A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Mandaviya represents Gujarat in the Rajya Sabha, elected at the age of 38 …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled his cabinet this week, with perhaps the most prominent changeover being at the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Dr Harsh Vardhan resigned in advance of the cabinet reshuffle and has been replaced by Mansukh L. Mandaviya. Mandaviya replaced Vardhan as Minister of Health and Family Welfare, as well …
The new variant of COVID-19 identified in the United Kingdom recently is not present in India. However, the Union Government is in talks with UK experts to discuss the new COVID-19 strain due to concerns that it appears to be a “super spreader.” “We have not detected this mutation,” said Dr Vinod K. Paul, a …
The impasse between government think tank Niti Aayog and the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare over a controversial medical devices bill may be over according to a recent report filed in The Economic Times. Discord emerged between the two bodies over a proposed regulatory overhaul of medical devices in the country, which would …
Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries will no longer be denied access to treatment under the Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN), following the intervention of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare concerning a controversial gap between the two initiatives. RAN “provides for financial assistance to patients, living below [the] poverty line and who is suffering from major …
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Union ministries have heeded the call from the Union Cabinet to support the Government’s flagship health initiative Ayushman Bharat. More than 200 hospitals under the purview of different Union ministries at the central level have been empanelled under the scheme, according to reports. In December, the Union Cabinet wrote to the National Health Authority and …
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has rejected the draft law concerning violence against doctors, submitted by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The Health and Services Personnel and Clinical Establishments (Prohibition of Violence and Damage of Property) Bill would penalise violence against medical practitioners with up to ten years of imprisonment and …
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All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are premier medical institutes, with expanded numbers of such institutes in the country featuring in the Centre’s plans to upgrade medical education and improve public health overall. Now the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has offered assistance to the Health Ministry to assist in building them. “It is …
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India’s food production sector has been banned from using the antibiotic colistin, over concerns about its misuse potentially fuelling drug resistance. According to a 2009 study, “colistin is…being used increasingly as a ‘last-line’ therapy to treat infections caused by [multi-drug-resistant] Gram-negative bacteria, when essentially no other options are available.” Yet concerns are growing that, in …
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July 1st marked Doctors’ Day – and while the occasion was an opportunity to thank the medical professionals who work to ensure good health, it also was a bitter reminder of the public health crisis India is facing. The government has put a figure to the mammoth medical staff shortage India is battling. The new …
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