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Post-Budget webinar breakout session on 'Scale-up Allied Health Profession
Updated : 4 days, 21 hours ago IST
As part of the Post-Budget Webinar series on the theme "Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas - Fulfilling Aspirations of People", a breakout session was held on the Budget Announcement under Para 53: "Scale-up Allied Health Professionals", Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday.
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Gem Hospital director seeks higher health spending, rate revision under Ay
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
"As we approach the budget announcement, those of us in the healthcare profession have specific expectations. To begin with, I am looking for a significant increase in healthcare spending as a percentage of our GDP. While it stood at 1.9% last year, the National Health Policy has set a ta
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South-East Asia marks 15 years since last case of polio, legacy drives bro
Updated : 2 months ago IST
"This extraordinary achievement followed unparalleled efforts and demonstrates what can be accomplished and sustained through unwavering government leadership, a dedicated health workforce, and strong partnerships, including with communities," said Catharina Boehme, Officer-in-Charge, WHO So
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SingHealth Duke-NUS Launches Two New Global Health Centres to Advance Alli
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Singapore, November 5: The SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre today announced the establishment of two new centres -- the Centre for Global Allied Health and the Centre for Global Pharmacy -- under the auspices of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI). These new en
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Cabinet approves major expansion of postgraduate and undergraduate medical
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
This initiative will significantly augment undergraduate medical capacity, increase the availability of specialist doctors by creating additional postgraduate seats, and enable the introduction of new specialities across Government medical institutions. This will strengthen the overall avail
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Maldives, Thailand sign MoU on health; WHO lauds collaboration
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Maldives and Thailand signed a new health cooperation MoU on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, focusing on primary health care, regulatory capacity, health workforce training, and sustainable health financing. WHO praised the move as a model of solidarity and innovati
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Pandemic Fund allocates USD 418 million for second round of grants to boos
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
These grants will provide much-needed investments to strengthen disease surveillance and early warning systems, upgrade laboratories, and build a health workforce.
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53 countries unanimously adopt WHO framework for health workforce in Europ
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The framework comes at a critical time when all countries in the region are struggling to retain and recruit sufficient numbers of health and care workers with the right mix of skills to meet the growing and changing needs of patients.
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WHO lauds countries for scaling up routine immunization, urges efforts mus
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia, in a press statement, said, "The countries and partners agencies must continue to and scale up efforts to identify the unvaccinated children, strengthen capacities of the health workforce, better understand and engage with vul
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Globally one in eight people today are migrants: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Climate change, rising inequality, conflicts, trade, and population growth are accelerating these trends. The health workforce has a vital role in providing for the health rights and needs of refugees and migrants.
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UN body says new investments in global health workforce will create jobs,
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Sept.21 (ANI): The Presidents of France and South Africa have called for urgent investments globally to create new jobs in the health sector in order to prevent a projected shortfall of 18 million health workers primarily in low- and lower-middle-income countries, a
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