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.…

PROJECT KANNAMMA PROVIDES SANITARY NAPKINS TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CHENNAI

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

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)…

PARADIGM SHIFT FOR TB CONTROL

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

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…

THE KERALA ALERT: DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE-KNOWN WEST NILE VIRUS

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

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…