India declared trachoma free by WHO
In a significant public health achievement, India has been officially declared free from trachoma by the World Health Organization (WHO), said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare here on Sunday.
In a significant public health achievement, India has been officially declared free from trachoma by the World Health Organization (WHO), said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare here on Sunday.
In a landmark initiative to strengthen public health and safety, the Centre has notified the Medical Textiles (Quality Control) Order, 2023 which will take effect from October 1.
Public Health experts have called for innovative strategies for revitalising India's tobacco cessation drive and also emphasised the urgent need to reinforce conventional methods of quitting tobacco in the country.
The recent death of a 24-year-old student in Kerala due to the Nipah virus is a stark reminder of the persistent threat posed by zoonotic diseases.
NITI Aayog on Wednesday released a new report that provides a blueprint of a rapid response system in the event of a public health emergency or pandemic.
The findings of the study were published in the journal Obesity. Several epidemiological studies have found that what we eat influences how we sleep.
Road crash deaths and injuries are a major but neglected public health challenge that requires concerted effort for effective and sustainable prevention.
He said that the BJP State Executive Committee meeting, which is to be held in Hubballi, would discuss issues related to party organisation and other developments.
Two learnings emerge. Firstly, our bloated bureaucracy and bureaucratic procedures have to be overhauled to make them capable of responding quickly to an emergency. Secondly, public health should not be guided by partisan politics, and a robust and effective national public health agency should be nurtured, to respond to public health threats, and to help prevent the next inevitable pandemic.
The webinar was moderated by Dr D K Mangal, Prof and Dean Research, IIHMR University Jaipur.
