Gandhinagar, July 1 (IANS) Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday launched the statewide ‘Namo Swachhata Abhiyan and Amrutpaan Abhiyan’, announcing a week-long cleanliness drive across all 11,935 government health institutions in Gujarat as part of an effort to improve hospital hygiene, strengthen infection control and promote maternal and child health. The campaign, inaugurated at the Gandhinagar Civil Hospital campus, will run from July 1 to July 7.During the drive, hospitals and health f…
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Patna, June 29 (IANS) Bihar Health Minister Nishant Kumar on Monday performed a Satyanarayan Puja at his newly allotted official residence, 5 Desh Ratna Marg in Patna, marking the housewarming ceremony on the occasion of Jyeshtha Purnima. Several family members participated in the religious rituals, including former Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) national president Nitish Kumar. The ceremony was held amid ongoing changes in the allocation of official residences in the state capital and h…
Ahmedabad, June 29 (IANS) Investigators probing the blood plasma adulteration racket uncovered in Ahmedabad district have found that all 1,140 plasma units seized from the alleged mastermind’s residence were adulterated, of inferior quality and unfit for human use, prompting authorities to begin the process of destroying the seized stock while expanding the investigation to multiple blood banks in Maharashtra. The Ahmedabad Rural Police said on Monday that a forensic report from the Department o…
Shillong, June 29 (IANS) Meghalaya BJP MLA and senior party leader A.L. Hek on Monday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government for Meghalaya’s development initiatives, saying the Centre has consistently extended financial support and sent a series of Union Ministers to the state to accelerate growth across key sectors.Speaking to reporters here, Hek, who represents the Pynthorumkhrah Assembly constituency, said the Union government has been proactive in sanctioning development pa…
Medininagar, June 29 (IANS) Shocking details have emerged after five members of a family died in ten days in Palamu, Jharkhand, following consumption of ash on the advice of an occultist.According to the Health Department, instead of seeking proper medical treatment during illness, the family relied on faith healing. They were reportedly consuming ash on the advice of a local occult practitioner (ojha).Doctors suspect this may have led to a steady deterioration in their condition. However, the e…
Gandhinagar, June 28 (IANS) A pilot digital platform aimed at integrating health, nutrition and education data from pregnancy through to adolescence has been launched in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, in a move the government says is intended to strengthen monitoring of maternal and child welfare outcomes through a single unified system.The initiative, named the PM-Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT), has been developed under the supervision of Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit …
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) In a fresh crackdown against corruption, the Delhi government’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Sunday arrested two former Health department officials in a case related to alleged large-scale irregularities in procurement of medicines, surgical consumables and medical equipment. The ACB arrested Vatsala Aggarwal, the then Director General Health Services (DGHS), and Neeraj Chopra, Deputy Controller of Accounts (DCA) of DGHS’ Central Procurement Agency (CPA), in an FIR, …
Gandhinagar, June 28 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched the pilot phase of the PM Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT) and Health Passports in Gujarat, marking the rollout of an integrated digital platform designed to track the health, nutrition and education of children from pregnancy until the age of 18 years. The pilot project has been introduced in Gandhinagar and integrates data from the Health Department, Women and Child Development Department and Education Dep…
Gandhinagar, June 28 (IANS) Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday launched Gujarat’s statewide Pulse Polio immunisation campaign from Gandhinagar by administering oral polio vaccine drops to children, marking the start of a drive that aims to cover more than 83.49 lakh children aged below five years across the state.The campaign, being conducted under the ‘Polio Eradication Programme’, will be implemented through 32,997 polio booths across Gujarat.A total of 65,994 health teams, working under…
Chennai, June 28 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Sunday launched the state’s annual Pulse Polio Immunisation Campaign by administering oral polio vaccine drops to children at the Adi Dravidar Welfare Higher Secondary School in Palavakkam, Chennai, marking the beginning of a massive statewide immunisation drive targeting children below the age of five.The campaign is part of India’s continued efforts to sustain its polio-free status through annual vaccination drives.Polio,…