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Nari Shakti will come forth as Rashtra Shakti during Azadi ka Amrit Mahots
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, while highlighting the need to bring women's power of the country to the fore, said that 'Nari Shakti' will come forth as 'Rashtra Shakti' (nation power) during the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.
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Higher levels of education, higher income mean better health for older adu
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Dublin [Ireland], October 11 (ANI): A new cross-national study comparing multimorbidity disease cluster patterns, prevalence and health risk factors across Ireland, England, The United States and Canada has revealed important findings that can have health implications for public health polic
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HDFC ERGO launches Optima Secure Health Policy
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 20 (ANI/NewsVoir): HDFC ERGO General Insurance, India's leading non-life insurance company in the private sector, announced the launch of Optima Secure, a new health indemnity health insurance product that seeks to redefine the value customers can get from
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Delhi HC gives nod for NCRD, orders to finalise National Health Policy for
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday passed several directions for treatment of people suffering from rare diseases including setting up a National Consortium for Rare Disease (NCRD). The Court also directed the Central government to finalise and notify the Nati
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Aditya Birla Health Insurance introduces India's first health insurance pl
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 26 (ANI/NewsVoir): Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company Ltd. (ABHICL), the Health Insurance subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited, a significant non-banking financial services company, today announced an industry-first initiative of up to 100 per
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Healthcare attains foremost priority for the first time in Union Budget sa
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 9 (ANI/BusinessWire India): It took a COVID 19 and the obliteration of 154K of the populace from India between March 2020 - Feb 2021, to mark the first day of February, to earmark Healthcare sector as an utmost priority, for the nation's well-being.
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Economic Survey recommends increasing public health spending to 2.5-3% of
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 29 (ANI): The Economic Survey has strongly recommended an increase in public spending on healthcare services from 1 per cent to 2.5 to 3 per cent of GDP as envisaged in the National Health Policy 2017.
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Obese people at higher risk of contracting coronavirus, suggests study
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], November 21 (ANI): The effects of cardiovascular risk factors on the risk of COVID-19 infection have been investigated through a novel approach by researchers at Queen Mary University of London.
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Maternal Mortality Ratio declines in India by 9 points, closer to SDG targ
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry on Friday informed that Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) India has declined by 9 points in one year as per the Special Bulletin on MMR released by the Registrar General of India.
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Inclusion of occupational therapy in health policies among other demands o
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] Nov 09 (ANI/NewsVoir): All India Occupational therapists' association (AIOTA) President Dr Anil Srivastava today urged Government to include Occupational Therapy (OT) in key policies such as the National Health Policy, Rural Health program, Clinical Establishment
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Harsh Vardhan urges states to increase healthcare spending to achieve NHP
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 10 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Thursday urged the health ministers from states and union territories to increase healthcare spending to a minimum 8 per cent in their state budget so as to meet the goals of healthcare spending of National Health
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Jaitley bats for one nation, one health policy
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 29 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that there was a dire need for India to have an integrated health policy to provide maximum benefits to the patient population across the country.
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