Gandhinagar/Panchmahal, July 7 (IANS) The Gujarat government has intensified surveillance and containment measures after laboratory tests confirmed that two children from villages in Godhra taluka of Panchmahal district died after contracting the Chandipura virus, prompting health authorities to deploy specialised medical teams and launch door-to-door surveys in the affected areas. State Health Minister Praful Pansheriya described the deaths of the children from Vinzol and Jitpura villages as “a…
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Gandhinagar, July 6 (IANS) More than five lakh unused items have been removed from government healthcare facilities across Gujarat during six days of the state-wide ‘Namo Swachhata Abhiyan’, freeing 1,677 rooms for future use and completing repairs to over 34,000 pieces of equipment and infrastructure, according to the state Health Department. The campaign, launched under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, is being conducted from July 1 to 7 across government health institutions…
Gandhinagar, July 5 (IANS) More than 5.11 lakh unusable items have been identified across Gujarat’s government healthcare network in the first five days of the state-wide ‘Namo Swachhata Abhiyan’, with over 46,000 of them already disposed of on-site, freeing up more than 1,500 rooms for future use, according to the state Health Department. The department said that on the fifth day of the campaign alone, 58,594 unusable items were identified across more than 12,000 government health institutions,…
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…
New Delhi/Gandhinagar, June 30 (IANS) Gujarat has urged the Centre to establish a full-fledged organ transplant facility at AIIMS Rajkot, tighten legal provisions against food and drug adulteration and introduce stricter controls on the use of antibiotics during the 16th meeting of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW) in New Delhi, officials said on Tuesday. Health Minister Praful Pansheriya represented Gujarat at the meeting, chaired by Union Health and Family Welfare Minist…
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…
Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar, June 24 (IANS) Gujarat Health Minister Praful Pansheriya said on Wednesday that the state government would take strict action against all those involved in the alleged blood plasma adulteration racket busted in Ahmedabad district, describing the tampering of life-saving medical supplies as a “grave offence that endangered patients’ health”. His remarks came a day after the Ahmedabad Rural Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) dismantled a racket accused of replacing genu…
Vadodara, June 23 (IANS) Vadodara’s Kavi Dula Kaag Primary School has filled all available admission seats for the 2026-27 academic year before the state’s annual school enrolment drive begins, prompting the school to place a “no admission” notice outside its premises amid sustained demand from parents.The development comes ahead of the state government’s statewide ‘Shala Praveshotsav and Kanya Kelavani Rath Yatra’ scheduled from June 23 to June 25, an initiative aimed at ensuring that…
Gandhinagar/Bhavnagar, June 19 (IANS) Gujarat’s Health Department has ordered strict disciplinary action against six students of the Government Medical College in Bhavnagar after an investigation into a ragging complaint found them guilty, with one student suspended for two years and all six ordered to vacate their hostel rooms immediately.The action followed a marathon meeting of the college’s Anti-Ragging Committee, which began at 5 p.m. on June 18 and continued until 2 a.m. on Friday.The meet…