Vaccination can Save Nearly 90,000 Indian Kids Annually

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

India can save lives of more than 90,000 children aged below five years annually, if it scales up its vaccination programme against pneumonia and diarrhoea, said a report on Friday. ...Read More

Integration of IT in Healthcare, India

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Integration of IT in healthcare improves the quality of care by tracking and maintaining healthcare history and providing effective and efficient practices to patients, reveals a new study. ...Read Mo...

Global Nutrition Report Shows India’s Burden of Malnutrition

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Global Nutrition Report 2017 shows that India is under the burden of malnutrition....Read More

Twenty Indian Children Die of Pneumonia Every Hour in India

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Pneumonia claims the lives of more children around the world than any other infectious disease. The vast majority of those killed by pneumonia are poor and living in low and middle-income countries......

Northeast to Get India's First Helicopter-Based Dispensary

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

In a first-of-its-kind, the northeast region will get India''s first Air Dispensary, Minister of Development of North East Region (DONER) Jitendra Singh revealed. If found successful, the Northeast mo...

Doctors Surgically Remove Coins, Shaving Blades, Nails From a Man’s Stomach

Posted in Others Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Doctors in Sanjay Gandhi Medical College and Hospital located in Madhya Pradesh, North India, removed a total of 5 kilograms of iron objects - from a man''s stomach. ...Read More

States, Districts With 90% Immunisation Coverage to Get Awards

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Full immunization against preventable childhood diseases is the right of every child. To achieve full immunization coverage for all children at a rapid pace, the Government of India launched Mission I...

Mermaid Baby Born in Kolkata Tragically Dies Four Hours Later

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

A 23-year-old woman in West Bengal gave birth to a baby with fused legs, or mermaid-like features. The mermaid syndrome or Sirenomelia is thought to affect one in every 60,000 to 100,000 births and th...

Checklist and Coaching Program Improves Childbirth Care in India

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

A WHO Safe Childbirth checklist and coaching intervention program have improved facility-based childbirth care during labor. However, death rates in women of India were not reduced, reveals a new stud...

Kolkata to Fight Dengue by Flying Drones

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 12 Feb 2018

A drone will be used by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) from 2018 to fight against dengue aids in capturing "difficult images" of stagnant water on terraces of the high rises....Read More