The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is working on multiple projects to reduce the neonatal mortality rate, and prevent stillbirths in India, the Centre informed on Tuesday.
Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said on Thursday that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has left an indelible mark on the country’s healthcare landscape.
A 'one-size-fits-all' approach may be inadequate in developing assistive technology (AT), instead focusing on customisation and affordability is crucial, according to experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday.
The overall prevalence of diabetes in the Jammu region is 18.9 per cent, with an alarming 26.5 per cent in urban areas and 14.5 per cent in rural areas, an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-led study revealed on Sunday.
This initiative is a crucial step towards establishing India as a leader in the clinical development of pharmaceutical agents, it added.
“Recently, on the instructions from the ICMR we have distributed huge quantities of test kits that were lying unutilized here and scheduled for expiry by 31 December to central government-run labs in Odisha and Jharkhand for their use. I don’t know why our state government is not sending adequate number of swab samples as much as possible to us despite repeated requests made to Swasthya Bhaban,”
Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya informed that reminder SMS have been sent to more than 1 crore health and frontline workers and 60+ citizens for their precaution dose.
"Omicron is the predominant circulating strain in cities in the country. Mass gatherings should be avoided to lower the speed of this spread," Dr Bhargava said during the briefing of the Union Health Ministry.
India on Thursday registered 13,154 fresh Covid cases and 268 deaths in a span of 24 hours. With the addition of the new deaths, the total death toll reached 4,80,860.
The kit has been designed by a team of ICMR scientists from the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) for the Northeast region led by scientist Dr Biswajyoti Borkakoty.
