Abantika Ghosh

Launched in September 2018, PMJAY is the tertiery care arm of Ayushman Bharat, the flagship health programme of the NDA government, under which eligible families are covered for health expenses of up to Rs 5 lakh per year.

According to the sources, the Prime Minister also asked the ministers to stay in the villages they visit at night rather than return to Jammu or Srinagar.

The government’s comprehensive Multi-Year Plan for 2018-22 details a comprehensive financial plan to fully immunise 26 million children and 30 million pregnant women with life-saving vaccines.

Users’ data and its deviations from average that pointed to infectious spells were compared to weekly estimates for influenza-like illness rates reported by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

In a recent finance meeting, Rs 500 crore from PMJAY’s original kitty of Rs 6,400 crore was therefore allotted to the cash-strapped Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), which has close to Rs 1,000 crore dues pending to private hospitals, which are threatening to exit government schemes.

The absence of big-ticket, impactful ideas during the presentations is learnt to have drawn the Prime Minister’s displeasure.

As outrage continues over the deaths of babies in J K Lon Hospital in Kota, Rajasthan, and in the civil hospital in Rajkot, Gujarat, the fact remains that India has the most child deaths in the world. In 2017, UNICEF estimated 8,02,000 babies had died in India.

Last year, when the Health Ministry undertook an assessment of the 30-odd worst performing SNCUs in the country, three from Rajasthan featured in the list.

Intermittent fasting impairs energy metabolism in cancer cells, inhibiting their growth and rendering them susceptible to clinical treatments, the researchers said.

He also flagged equipment problems in the state government hospital. “It is learnt that out of 533 equipment, 320 are not functional for want or annual maintenance contract (AMC) and there is absence of oxygen pipeline in special newborn care unit.

Sources in the AIMPLB and other Muslim organisations at the forefront of the issue say the chances of a curative petition being filed are ‘slim’.

The recommendations were made by three expert groups — policy labs — put together to grapple with questions about India’s road to Universal Health Coverage.

Denying the report’s claims, police have said that students initiated the violence and minimum force was used for self-defence.

Road injury was the leading cause of death in India among 15-39-year-old males in 2017 and was the second leading cause for both sexes combined.

The prevalence of depression is highest in older adults, which has significant implications for the aging population of India. Depression is associated with suicide deaths in India.

While BJP allies Nitish Kumar and Chirag Paswan opposed the NRC, BJP leaders Ram Madhav and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said no plan yet for nationwide NRC.

Tell me, NRC is for whom? It is for Indian nationals. Does NRC say anywhere it is for Indian Muslims, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

The Commission, Rizvi said, has appealed to the Union government to carry out the NRC exercise as and when it happens in such a way as to protect the interests of Indian Muslims.

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