WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
The High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage for India on Sunday held a brainstorming session here to address concerns raised by the World Bank over some of the recommendations in its report for the 12th Five Year Plan. Among the issues raised were marginalisation of the private sector …
Bio-medical waste constitutes an estimated 1.5 to 2 per cent of municipal waste in the urban areas of India. The Bio-Medical Waste Rules-1998 have been in place for the past 13 years but there are various challenges in the implementation of the system, some being lack of capacity among generators …
GUWAHATI: State Unit of National Tobacco Control Program has decided to launch the special campaign ‘Save the Future’ across the country, led by the Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai. The campaign aims at curbing the smoking habit among children. Assam has nearly 40 per cent overall prevalence of tobacco use, and …
Ground water in areas up to three km radius around garbage disposal sites of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is highly alkaline and unfit for human use. According to a joint research study by the city-based National Geophy-sical Research Institute and the dep artment of applied geochemistry, Osmania University, the …
UNAIDS’s World AIDS Day report for 2011, which was released on Monday, revealed a dramatic decrease of 56 per cent between 1996 and 2010 in the number of new HIV infections in India. South and South East Asia with an estimated 2,70,000 new HIV cases in 2010 showed a 40 …
The commonest test used to diagnose tuberculosis — an expensive blood test available in the form of a kit — could be one of the reasons for the rising drug resistance of the tuberculosis bacterium. The Central TB Control Division of the Health Ministry has written to the Drug Controller …
“If the law of the market is ignored, then no government policy, however well intended, is going to work”, Chief Economic Advisor to Government of India Kaushik Basu said at a conference on the Indian health sector here on Friday. He referred specifically to how 44 per cent of the …
Pakistan’s under Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)) is committed to supply 93 percent of the population of the country with safe water and 64 percent of the population with adequate sanitation by year 2015, as World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 97,900 people die every year in the country due to …
WHO’s European offi ce is making progress with its innovative new strategy to tackle the region’s health problems. But will member states and the rest of WHO take note? Robert Walgate reports
Absence of preventive measures and affordable and accessible health care leads to nearly 500 encephalitis deaths in Uttar Pradesh. IT is a strange paradox. In a country that aspires to be a superpower and boasts of rapid economic growth, 488 children died in a State, Uttar Pradesh, from encephalitis alone …
Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders are highly prevalent and are responsible for 14% of the global burden of disease expressed in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The resources that have been provided in countries to tackle the huge burden are insufficient, inequitably distributed, and inefficiently used, which results in …
Even as India’s largest drug maker, Ranbaxy, is confident of launching its first “new drug” by January 2012 to combat malaria in the country, the global euphoria the potential drug had generated in the initial stages of its research seems missing. Health experts attribute this to the absence of international …
High spending on medicines and health will push many Indians below the poverty line, the World Health Organisation has cautioned. “Due to the out-of-pocket spending of their income on medicines and healthcare services, about 3.2 per cent of India's population will come below the poverty line,” a senior WHO official …
Finally, good news on the health front. Next year will be crucial for India’s polio eradication programme, which appears on track with only one case reported so far this year. “If no wild polio virus is identified throughout the high-transmission season in 2012,” said an article in a US Centres …
New Delhi The government plans to quantify the economic losses the country suffers by compromising on food safety. The country’s food regulator — Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) — has already initiated talks with the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in this regard. “In India, data on economic …
NEW DELHI, 1 NOV: Out-of-pocket spending of their income on medicines and health care services due to rising cost of diagnosis, medicines and hospitalisation will push millions of Indians (about 3.2 per cent) below the poverty line, said World Health Organisation (WHO) experts here today. More than 40 per cent …
New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) is worried about Indians’ high out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses to buy medicines. WHO says, 3.2% Indians will fall below the poverty line because of high medical bills. About 70% of Indians spend their entire income on healthcare and purchasing drugs, WHO suggests. Dr Kathleen …
With Punjab Assembly polls due next year, environmentalists, civil society leaders and agriculturalist on Saturday asked the people to vote for those politicians only who promise to take care of the state’s “environmental health crisis”. “People in Punjab are facing serious ecological and environmental crisis. Now that elections are coming …
Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has sought to blame an influx of Afghan refugees for persistence of polio in his country as Commonwealth leaders pledged to eradicate the crippling disease by announcing measures like a new $50-million funding. Mr Gilani made the remarks on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads …
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat has requested Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to take action against those responsible for alleged violation of guidelines in the Human Pipillomavirus (HPV) project. In a letter to Mr. Azad, she drew his attention to an …
