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Union Minister Anupriya Patel clarified in Parliament that CDSCO has not banned paracetamol in India, countering recent rumours. While certain Fixed Dose Combinations involving paracetamol are restricted, standalone paracetamol remains approved for use.

The CDSCO has released new guidelines including a “flush list” of medicines that can be safely disposed of down the toilet to prevent misuse. It also urges State authorities to organise Drug Take Back programs under Biomedical Waste Management Rules

Court issues the directives while hearing a contempt petition filed by Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan on rehabilitation of survivors

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Principal Adviser for the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme at the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and former Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization, will deliver the lecture.

Once the leading cause of blindness in the 1950s and 1960s, trachoma has now been officially eliminated from India, according to a recent declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO). The Ministry acknowledged this achievement, highlighting the government's persistent efforts to safeguard the vision of millions and the significance of promoting healthy eyesight for all.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare says study's estimates 'gross and misleading'

The examination scheduled to be held on June 23 will now be rescheduled, with a new date to be announced soon

According to a daily bulletin released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday the total number of active cases in the country has declined to 51,314 from the earlier 53,852.

It is not enough to be a volume leader; India must add value to volume leadership.

The panel of experts from IPHA, IAPSM in their recommendations to Ministry of Health, and Family Welfare, said that at this juncture, usage of masks was also not relevant.

State government urged the MOHFW to ensure enough stock of Covid vaccine booster shots were made available to Telangana

Hyderabad: The union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) has granted National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) certification for over 13 primary health centres and re-certified three hospitals in Telangana for extending quality healthcare services. Health Minister, T Harish Rao congratulated the healthcare workers for maintaining quality in government facilities. “The NQAS certification reflects quality […]

The Ministry also informed that 27 fatalities in the last 24 hours have pushed the death toll to 5,15,877. Of these fatalities, Kerala reported 15 deaths, as per its state health bulletin.

According to the latest Standard Operating Procedure, all travellers should submit complete and factual information in self-declaration form on the online Air

Hyderabad: The State Health Department has directed private hospitals across Hyderabad and elsewhere in Telangana to avoid allocating hospital beds to mild and asymptomatic Covid-19 positive patients, which could create a shortage for deserving patients. Mild and asymptomatic Covid positive patients do not need hospital admissions. If private hospitals do not follow the Covid-19 treatment […]

Hyderabad: The vaccine administration drive for 15 to 18 years children, scheduled to start from January 3, will be initially organised in larger government hospitals located in Corporations and District headquarters where doctors and other senior healthcare workers are available. “There will be no vaccine administration for children where doctors are not available in government […]

Hyderabad: Tracking and tracing of international passengers arriving from non ‘at-risk’ countries to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad has become a challenge for surveillance teams of the State Health Department, as there is a lot of scope for such passengers to ‘slip through the cracks’ and trigger rapid transmission of Omicron variant among the […]

The two special awards under the category ‘Health and Fit Nation’ were handed over to State health authorities by Union Minister of State (MoS) for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar on the occasion of Universal Health Coverage Day-2021 function held in New Delhi on Monday.

Hyderabad: Telangana has improved its performance in key healthcare indicators related to mother and child health, according to the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2019-20) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), which was released on Wednesday. When compared to the fourth NFHS survey carried out in 2015-16, the NFHS survey of […]

Also in the same period, 236 people succumbed to the virus, which increased the overall nationwide death toll to 4,66,147.