Union Health Ministry
-
Franchise India Bureau Jul 23 2018 - 2 min readThe health ministry may wait for the Justice BN Srikrishna committee to submit its recommendations on an all-encompassing data privacy law, before pushing a piece of legislation concerning security of information it has been working on for the health sector. The Ministry of Health had put out a draft of the ‘Digital Information Security in ...
-
Franchise India Bureau Jan 12 2018 - 2 min readAiming to deliver healthcare services to patients at their doorsteps, the Punjab government will become the first state in the country to launch 2,950 health wellness centres across the state in a phased manner. Of these, 240 such centres would start by this year end. Punjab health minister Brahm Mohindra said “in first phase, 240 ...
-
PTI Sep 29 2017 - 3 min readNEW DELHI: Come April next year, 85 per cent of space on cigarette packs and other tobacco products in India will have to be covered with graphic and text warnings of health hazard, making the country top ranker in terms of display of caution on packages. After ...
-
WI Bureau Sep 29 2017 - 2 min readWith several steps taken by Union Government to create awareness and raise standard of healthcare in India, Shripad Yesso Naik, Minister of State, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare urged industry to think afresh and innovate to make quality healthcare available to all. Recently, while addressing the first edition of the Hero Cycles India ...
-
Agencies Sep 29 2017 - 1 min readLaunched in 33 districts of northeastern states of India, Mission Indradhanush, an immunisation programme, aimed to vaccinate children by 2020. The programme is formulated by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry and would be implemented in eight districts in Assam, six in Nagaland, five in Arunachal Pradesh, four each in Manipur and Mizoram ...