October 23, 2024 10:35 am
The National One Health Mission, a cross-ministerial effort, has mapped existing surveillance programmes and laboratory capabilities and aims to plug gaps. The UN mandate is an opportunity to refine and reshape India’s AMR activities
June 28, 2024 9:04 am
The assessment has been conducted through a digital toolkit — ODK. The outcome of the assessment will be made available on the IPHS dashboard, which will be launched by Union Health Minister J P Nadda on Friday.
August 17, 2023 2:42 am
This platform will focus on creating an equitable research and development as well as manufacturing network for vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics, especially in the global South, officials said.
July 21, 2023 8:15 am
Investigation in implementation of scheme points to need to plug loopholes, give a human touch
January 05, 2023 10:28 am
Under the scheme, citizens can link, store, and share their health records, which creates a longitudinal health history for patients, allowing doctors to provide better diagnoses and treatment.
February 11, 2022 10:55 am
Now, patients have become more involved, increasing their participation to enhance the treatment journey.
January 28, 2022 11:03 pm
The advent of emerging technology viz. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) etc. in the healthcare industry especially in the telemedicine start-ups, needs larger financial support from the government.
January 18, 2022 10:02 am
As India grappled with the new Covid-19 variant Omicron and the understaffed healthcare industry, data from the Index indicates that the demand for medical professionals spiked in the month of December 2021 with a 6 per cent month-on-month growth (Dec 2021 vs Nov 2021).
October 08, 2021 4:42 pm
Along with nurses, job postings for physicians (7 per cent), laboratory technicians (6 per cent), pharmacists (5 per cent) and nurses (4 per cent) also showed a steady increase.
March 24, 2021 3:31 am
As many as 5,648 citizens were vaccinated in two days, along with 203 healthcare workers, including 118 who received the first dose, and 85 who received the second dose were given vaccinations.


