The Maharashtra government on Wednesday ordered the suspension of key health department personnel, including the Deputy Director of Health Services (Akola Circle), the Medical Superintendent of the Amravati Women's Hospital, the Additional District Civil Surgeon (Amravati), the Administrative Officer, and the ele...
As Bangladesh grapples with an unprecedented measles outbreak, three more children died from symptoms of the disease on Wednesday, pushing the overall death toll to 1002 this year, local media reported....
Acting on a complaint, officials from the Karnataka Food Safety Department on Wednesday found several unhygienic conditions at the premises of a restaurant on Race Course Road here, during an inspection as part of an intensified crackdown on the storage and sale of expired food products, and reportedly direct...
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has praised India’s significant progress in the healthcare sector, particularly its efforts to expand primary healthcare coverage, improve maternal and child health and strengthen the prevention and control of non-communica...
Karnataka Health Department officials on Tuesday raided a Swiggy Instamart warehouse here as part of an intensified crackdown on the storage and sale of expired food products and medicines, even as Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader urged people to check expiry dates before purchas...
Kerala is facing a double blow of scorching heat and an escalating power crisis, with temperatures expected to remain 3 to 4 degrees Celsius above normal for another day and electricity restrictions likely to continue in several areas....
The number of honey-trap cases reported in India over the last few years has been growing, despite advisories and warnings, as several officials continue to fall prey to these networks....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday praised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in Gujarat's Navsari district for taking up campaigns to make the district free of malnutrition and tuberculosis (TB), saying such efforts could have a lasting impact on future generations....
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday constituted a high-level State Task Force to strengthen enforcement of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, aiming to curb illegal sex determination, prevent female foeticide, and improve th...
A new cancer day-care facility was inaugurated at the government medical college in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha on Tuesday, marking the first phase of a larger plan to provide advanced cancer treatment closer to patients in the state's smaller cities and surrounding districts....
