The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Medical Secretary and National Health Mission Director R Rajesh Kumar.

A two-day capacity building workshop, jointly organised by National Health Mission Jammu and Kashmir, PGIMER Chandigarh and UNFPA New Delhi, kick started at SKIMS, Soura, on Thursday.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 17 (ANI): On the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 72nd birthday, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai will dedicate a comprehensive Urban Primary Health Centre (UPHC) to the public on Saturday, which is claimed to be the first of its kind in the country.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 18 (ANI/NewsVoir): Padma Shri S. Ramakrishnan, Founder President and S. Sankara Raman, Secretary, Amar Seva Sangam (ASSA), a premier organization in the field of disability management, had an informal meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently in Chennai. The meeting took place on the side-lines of the 44th Chess Olympiad held in the city.

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], August 2 (ANI): Uttarakhand Health Department on Tuesday issued an advisory to all the District Magistrates and Chief Medical Officers of the state regarding Monkeypox.

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 22 (ANI): The Uttarakhand government has been following all COVID-related guidelines amid rising cases in the state, the official informed on Thursday.

Sarma, who was the health minister of Assam in 2020, gave urgent supply orders to his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma’s firm JCB Industries, and an associate’s company Meditime Healthcare, Sisodia said. New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has filed a defamation case against Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia... The post appeared first on .

New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Bharati Pravin Pawar, on Wednesday launched National Emergency Life Support (NELS) courses for doctors, nurses and paramedics.

Chennai Apr 20 PTI Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras IIT-M were working with the National Health Mission of Tamil Nadu to improve health of newborns as health workers were facing a major challenge at primary health centres PHCs in rural areas of the State A project report SmartNRP neonatal resuscitation programme was released by the National Health Mission Tamil Nadu director Darez Ahamed recently to reduce the maternal mortality rate in the presence IIT-Madras director-professor V Kamakoti among others A team at the IIT-Madras Centre of Excellence on virtual reality identified skill training of the health workers as the major challenge the country was facing particularly at the PHCs Using virtual reality artificial intelligencemachine learning the SmartNRP tool will be used for training the workers at PHCs in Tamil Nadu under the National Health Mission This will be scaled subsequently to other States where NMR is very high IIT-Madras said in a press release If you look at infant mortality the biggest contributor is the neonatal mortality rate NMR which is death within 28 days of birth Around 40 babies are lost per every 1000 births We want to bring this down to single digit and all these initiatives are towards this direction Ahamed said IIT-Madras should also develop tools to train healthcare workers on various other areas such as treating accident victimsthere are numerous other areas that virtual reality can be utilised he said Kamakoti said I am sure virtual reality will make impact not only on healthcare verticals but in other areas as well There are a lot of very interesting ideas from IIT-Madras research scholars and students The projects were supported by corporate social responsibility initiatives of INdiaIdeascomBillDesk This support was crucial in developing the healthcare projects the release said PTI VIJ NVG NVG

Shillong Mar 30 PTI The Meghalaya government has released Rs 53 crore in 2021-2022 for paying ASHA workers thus clearing backlogs due till March 2021 an official release here statedThe government said that it was highest-ever amount that has been released at one go under the National Health Mission NHMDue to lack of release of funds in 2018-2019 financial year NHM Meghalaya could not make regular payments to the ASHA workers the statement saidThe state government has sanctioned funds under Meghalaya ASHA Benefit Scheme MABS for clearing backlogs up to March 2021 it saidThe sanction letter has been forwarded to deputy commissioners of all the districts with copies sent to the district medical and health officers for their information and necessary action it saidWith support from NHM the Meghalaya government has also introduced a mobile application for facilitating payments to the ASHA workers the statement notedThe application has been developed to ease the payment process and ensure timely disbursement of the same it added PTI JOP RMS RMS