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Campaign to sensitise people on benefits of breastfeeding every month: Var
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said the first week of every month will be dedicated to sensitising people about the multiple benefits of breastfeeding.
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Russia: 3 dead, 44 hospitalised after vehicles collide in Novorossiysk
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Novorossiysk [Russia], Aug 8 (ANI): The Krasnodar Territory Health Ministry on Thursday stated that at least 44 people were hospitalised while three lost their lives after a bus and a car fell off a cliff following a collision near Novorossiysk.
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Health ministry sets target to reduce HIV cases by 2020
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 7 (ANI): With an aim to bring down incidence of HIV/AIDS by 20,000 per year for the next two years, the Union Health Ministry is reaching out to targeted areas like prisons and women remand homes as cases in these places are much higher as compared to the general popul
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Disciplinary action against striking docs, warns health ministry
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 3 (ANI): The Union health ministry has warned the striking doctors that it will take disciplinary action against those who have not joined their medical duties to treat patients.
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Dengue fever kills 13 in Tanzania
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Dodoma [Tanzania], July 28 (ANI): As many as 13 people have died as a result of dengue fever, while 6,677 people are infected with the virus across the East African country, the health ministry told the state media.
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Barring North-East, no new pharmacy colleges to be set up in next 5 years:
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI): In view of the lack of quality education and shortage of qualified teaching staff, a government body under the Union Health Ministry has imposed restrictions on setting up new pharmacy colleges for the next five years.
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Goa Health Minister launches rotavirus vaccination in state
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], July 25 (ANI): Goa Minister for Health Vishwajit Rane on Thursday launched the rotavirus vaccination programmed in the state by administering the same to a child at a hotel here.
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Merck Foundation Partners with First Lady of Malawi to build healthcare ca
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] July 19 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany in partnership with the First Lady of Malawi, H.E. PROF GERTRUDE MUTHARIKA together with Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Information and Ministr
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Health Ministry signs MoU with MoD, Railway and AYUSH ministries to eradic
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): Union Health Ministry on Thursday signed an MoU with the Ministries of Defence, Railways and AYUSH to eliminate tuberculosis from India by 2025.
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Health Ministry signs MoU with MoD, Railway and AYUSH Ministries to eradic
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): Union Health Ministry on Thursday signed an MoU with the Ministries of Defence, Railways and AYUSH to eliminate tuberculosis from India by 2025.
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Centre to launch awareness drive in Delhi from tomorrow to combat vector-b
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 16 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry will launch a three-day public awareness drive in Delhi from tomorrow to sensitise people on measures for prevention and control of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and chikungunya.
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Cases of trachoma trichiasis -- a cause of blindness -- on rise in India
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Union Health Ministry has received fresh cases of trachomatous trichiasis (TT) with prevalence rate at 3.5 per 1,000 population while the World Health Organisation (WHO) restricts the disease's prevalence to less than two per 1,000 population.
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