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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced implementation of the National Health Mission with ₹2,103 crore central funding and expansion of Ayushman Bharat coverage to 1.36 crore families. The state also plans new medical colleges, stricter hospital monitoring and affordable medicines
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West Bengal has secured over ₹3,000 crore from the Centre to upgrade its public healthcare system under the National Health Mission and Ayushman Bharat scheme. The state plans to begin Ayushman card distribution from July and expand coverage to millions, including migrant workers
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Experts at a post-budget webinar highlighted the growing burden of mental and neurological disorders and the urgent need to expand institutional capacity. They stressed that non-communicable diseases account for over 60 per cent of deaths, with mental health conditions being a major contributor to disability-adjusted life years.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Ayushman Bharat scheme has grown from a promise into a people’s movement for universal healthcare. Marking its seventh anniversary, Union Minister J P Nadda called for more private hospitals to expand access and improve quality
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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, along with other Cabinet Ministers, on Wednesday chaired a meeting at which MLAs and officials from the state and Central governments were present.
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Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav says hybrid model will provide 4.3 crore people from 1.43 crore households free treatment up to Rs 25 lakh
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The Prime Minister added that it would be a Diwali "when our Ram returns home" and this time the wait is over not after 14 years but after 500 years
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As India marches towards Viksit Bharat, well-being of rural population must be at the forefront
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Expanding Ayushman scheme without increasing funding will result in substandard care for senior citizens
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By 2050, one in every five Indians will be over the age of 60 and it’s imperative that Ayushman Bharat gets adequate funding
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In the new report, the economists at the country's largest lender SBI also pitched for a "reinterpretation of old fashioned rhetoric" while looking at a subject like employment.
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The government, they said, will launch a mega drive, Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, across all 2.7 lakh panchayats in the country to reach out to beneficiaries and enrol them.
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In its performance audit report on the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India revealed that no action was taken against defaulters
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Irregularities in the Ayushman Bharat fly in the face of govt’s boastful claims about its fight against corruption
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The Vishwakarma scheme, clearly modeled on Telangana’s BC Bandhu scheme though with a few modifications, interestingly keeps up the Modi government’s ‘traditional occupation’ of copying schemes from the country’s youngest State.
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This has sparked yet another controversy at a time when the Centre is already grappling with a no-confidence motion, violence in Haryana and Manipur.
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Centre and states will work on a mission mode to address the issue of sex-ratio imbalance, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
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Union Minister of State for Cooperation BL Verma has directed the district officials to make efforts to take the fruits of Central welfare schemes to the beneficiaries.
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Amaravati: Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday said that the healthcare system in Andhra Pradesh involved feeling the pulse of the people with preventive and curative measures and the outreach percolating to micro level. Participating in a group discussion on `Future-proofing Health Systems’ at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on the day, […]
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Hyderabad: Proving the excellence of government hospitals, surgeons at the Gandhi Hospital performed six total knee replacement surgeries all in a span of just six hours. Between 9.30 am and 3.30 pm, the surgeons assisted by other associated teams, successfully did the six total knee replacements on Wednesday. The patients, according to the hospital which […]
