April 21, 2022 12:11 pm
A project report 'SmartNRP' (neonatal resuscitation programme) was released by the National Health Mission (Tamil Nadu) director Darez Ahamed recently to reduce the maternal mortality rate in the presence IIT-Madras director-professor V Kamakoti, among others.
February 02, 2022 12:09 pm
"As we look at the budget 2022-23, there is still scope for more considering our budget for health and nutrition is still much less than 5 per cent of GDP, as suggested by WHO (World Health Organisation) for middle-income countries."
October 31, 2021 6:11 am
Hundreds of NHM workers had gone on strike without any ultimatum to the local administration earlier this week, demanding equal wages for their work.
October 26, 2021 10:46 am
The Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission will provide support to 17,788 rural Health and Wellness Centres in 10 'high focus' states and establish 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres across the country.
August 24, 2021 5:51 am
According to Amit Kumar, general secretary, Chandigarh NHM Employees Union, the protest, which will continue till August 24, affected the Covid vaccination drive and OPD services due to unavailability of ANMS/LHVs.
July 13, 2021 7:22 am
The additional deaths came to the fore after the government on June 26 issued a letter to all district authorities urging them to report any deaths till June 30 which were not added so far on the government’s ‘Sarthak’ portal.
May 22, 2021 2:08 am
All the eight FIRs mention complaints made by senior officials under NHM and state health department.
May 12, 2021 1:00 am
NHM workers are demanding regularisation of their pay scales. Most of the employees are on Covid duties and even in vaccination drives in Punjab.
March 06, 2021 2:25 am
The report further stated that the expenditure incurred from NHM was Rs 361.79 crore, state disaster response funds was Rs 860.92 crore and district annual plan and legislators' local funds was Rs 690.82 crore up to December 2020.
February 01, 2021 4:44 am
Officials said the remaining children will be immunised on the second and third day through house-to-house reach.