MICRO-CHIPS: TELEMEDICINE

Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-04-05 MICRO-CHIPS: TELEMEDICINE Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues “I don’t know if he’s going to get home,” said a robot to a dying man in a California hospital last month. Seventy-eight-year-old Ernest Quintana was admitted to Kaiser Permanente Hospital for chronic lung disease.…

ON THE LEARNING CURVE: TRANSFORMING EDUCATION OUTCOMES IN INDIA

Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-20 ON THE LEARNING CURVE: TRANSFORMING EDUCATION OUTCOMES IN INDIA Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Education and related issues Among the lakhs of employees on the payrolls of State governments in India, the education department, unarguably, has the largest share of employees. Besides frontline service providers (teachers), there are…

DISEMPOWERING GRAM SABHAS

Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-20 DISEMPOWERING GRAM SABHAS Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Rights & Welfare of STs, SCs, and OBCs – Schemes & their Performance, Mechanisms, Laws Institutions and Bodies The FRA was enacted to recognise the pre-existing rights of forest-dwellers. Since 1980, through the Forest Conservation Act (FCA), the Ministry of…

INDIA ON THE BRINK OF A DRY EYE DISEASE EPIDEMIC, SAYS STUDY

Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-19 INDIA ON THE BRINK OF A DRY EYE DISEASE EPIDEMIC, SAYS STUDY Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Early diagnosis and treatment is crucial. For the first time, a large-scale, hospital-based study in India involving over 14.5 lakh patients had found the incidence…