Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-26 PROJECT KANNAMMA PROVIDES SANITARY NAPKINS TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CHENNAI Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Rights & Welfare of Women – Schemes & their Performance, Mechanisms, Laws Institutions and Bodies One step ahead (Far left) Workers from Irula Tribal Women’s Welfare Society manufacturing the Aavaram pads (left)…
Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-26 PARADIGM SHIFT FOR TB CONTROL Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Tuberculosis (TB) remains the biggest killer disease in India, outnumbering all other infectious diseases put together — this despite our battle against it from 1962, when the National TB Programme (NTP) was…
Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-23 THE KERALA ALERT: DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE-KNOWN WEST NILE VIRUS Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues The death of a child in Kerala’s Malappuram district has drawn attention to the epidemiology of the little-known West Nile Virus in India. Though awareness is…
Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-21 INTEGRATE TB SERVICES WITH PRIMARY HEALTH SYSTEM: LANCET Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Diagnosis and treatment need improvement, says the report. Of the 10 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases reported globally in 2017 by the World Health Organisation, 2.74 million were from…
Source : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2019-03-20 HEALTH MINISTRY REVIEWS THE PREPAREDNESS ON WEST NILE FEVER. Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Health Ministry reviews the preparedness on West Nile Fever. Posted On: 19 MAR 2019 6:34PM by PIB Delhi The Ministry of Health…
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