Health

Blood Donation Camp - MAAC

Good Evening! Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC),

Alwarpet had organized a Blood Donation Camp on Saturday July 4th 2009 from 10:00 am onwards. The Madras Voluntary Blood Bureau (VHS) conducted the camp at MAAC centre premises in the aid of children suffering from Haemophillia and Thalassemia as these children require blood transfusion every 21 [...]

543 nurses recruited in HP Health Department

Shimla, The Himachal Pradesh Government has recruited 543 nurses in the Health Department to strengthen the health services in the state.
Out of the recently recruited nurses, 236 nurses were recruited on July 7, Health Minister Rajeev Bindal said while addressing a review meeting of Officers of Health Department here yesterday.
Dr Bindal said [...]

JNIMS to be upgraded to full-fledged institute soon

Imphal, A three-member team of the Medical Council of India (MCI), which left the state capital today, has assured to extend all assistance to upgrade and improve the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) in Imphal East.
JNIMS officials informed that work was on in full swing to develop the facility into [...]

Child dies after having Polio drops

Barabanki, A one-year-old died here today after being administered Polio drops at village Purva under Loni Katra Police station in the district.
According to sources, 25 children were given polio drops this morning but after few hours, Pradeep died under mysterious circumstances.
Doctors went into panic after the death of the infant and a high [...]

Survey to prevent spread of epidemic diseases in Mysore

Mysore, The Mysore District administration and Health and Family Welfare Department and the City Corporation today launched a joint survey operation in all localities of the city to prevent spread of epidemic diseases like malaria, chikungunya and dengue.
Launching the survey, District Health Officer Dr V Raju said 11 cases of Chikungunya, 12 malaria and [...]

Preventive health check for media Persons.

Preventive health check for media Persons. Organised by TN Unit of National Union of Journalists(India). In association with the city based Lister Metro polis clinical laboratories, Nungambakkam, Chennai. The union Tamilnadu State general secretary Sri C.Balasubramanian said in press release.
The preventive health checkup camp will be inaugurated by Customs and Central Excise commissioner Sri. Rajan [...]

Singapore records 91 fresh cases of flu

Singapore, Singapore has recorded another 91 cases of Influenza A (H1N1-2009), taking the total tally to 969 confirmed cases of people infected with flu virus and said it is a mild global pandemic.
”H1N1 is now a global pandemic. It is widely circulating in all countries and communities. The virus is here to stay, just like [...]

Tripura sets up RRT as precaution of swine flu spread

Agartala, The state government has set up district level Rapid Response Teams (RRT) and preparing clinical protocol even though any swine flu (H1N1) case has not been reported so far in Tripura.
Talking to media here today, principal secretary, Health Department Y P Singh said National Institute of Communicable Diseases(NICD) had affirmed that swine flu spread [...]

Tribal woman carries dead child in her womb for 19 days

Betul, MP, A tribal woman was admitted to district hospital here in a serious condition as she was carrying a seven-month-old dead child in her womb for nineteen days and the dead child was flushed out after she had undergone operation today.
The doctors earlier diagnosed it as tumor and did not operate her.
District [...]

Homeo telemedicine centre to be funded in Tripura

Agartala, The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has agreed to fund homeopathy tele-medicine centre in rural areas of Tripura under Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) in the current fiscal.
Official sources here today said the Centre had sanctioned the homeopathy telemedicine project initially for three poverty infested revenue blocks - Mandai, Mohanpur [...]