Malnutrition
Malnutrition limits development and the capacity to learn. It also costs lives: about 50 per cent of all childhood deaths are attributed to malnutrition.
Malnutrition is more common in India than in Sub-Saharan Africa. One in every three malnourished children in the world lives in India.
Read more: UNICEF India
Need to overcome Malnutrition
As reported in TOI there are nearly 16 crore children in India below the age of six years. According to Hon'ble Manmohan Singh, the health of the economy and society lies in the health of "this generation".
"In the years to come, these children will join our workforce as scientists, farmers, teachers, data operators, artisans and service providers. We cannot hope for a healthy future for our country with a large number of malnourished children," Singh said.
The results of this survey are both worrying and encouraging, according to Singh. "The survey reports high levels of malnutrition, despite impressive growth in our GDP. But it also indicates that one child in five has reached an acceptable healthy weight during the last seven years in 100 focus districts. This 20% decline in malnourishment is better than the rate of decline reported in National Family Health Survey 3," Singh said.
Read More : TOI
Integrated Child Development Services
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Over 2.5L books in PU library have no takers
PATNA: Even as the basic laws of library science state that books are for use and that every book has its readers, books worth crores of rupees are decaying in Patna University (PU) Central Library for want of readers. More than 2.5 lakh books and journals of different subjects stacked in this 90-year-old library are seldom consulted by faculty members or students.
Read more@ TOI
PATNA: Even as the basic laws of library science state that books are for use and that every book has its readers, books worth crores of rupees are decaying in Patna University (PU) Central Library for want of readers. More than 2.5 lakh books and journals of different subjects stacked in this 90-year-old library are seldom consulted by faculty members or students.
Read more@ TOI
Govt sets target to skill 500 million people by 2022
The Indian government has set a target to skill 500 million people by 2022. In India, approximately 12.8 million people join the job market every year. This number comprises people who are highly skilled, who form a minuscule part, and who are semiskilled or not skilled. The last category is the bulk of the population entering the workforce every year. The current skill capacity of the country is about five million - a deficit of more than seven million annually.
Read more:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/11420731.cms
The Indian government has set a target to skill 500 million people by 2022. In India, approximately 12.8 million people join the job market every year. This number comprises people who are highly skilled, who form a minuscule part, and who are semiskilled or not skilled. The last category is the bulk of the population entering the workforce every year. The current skill capacity of the country is about five million - a deficit of more than seven million annually.
Read more:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/11420731.cms
Shelter for homeless
NEW DELHI: At least 3 million homeless people across the country are having to sleep outdoors in the bitter winter this year and state governments have done scant little to provide shelters for them, the Supreme Court commissioners have said in their 'National Report on Homelessness'.
They noted that all 15 states studied were in partial or complete violation of SC orders to set up permanent shelters for the homeless before the onset of winter.
Delhi, ironically one of the better performers, was required to set up 129 permanent shelters for the homeless but only 64 have come up even as peak winter is here. Of these, only 41 were permanent in nature and 21 were found shut.
Read more:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/11420731.cms
NEW DELHI: At least 3 million homeless people across the country are having to sleep outdoors in the bitter winter this year and state governments have done scant little to provide shelters for them, the Supreme Court commissioners have said in their 'National Report on Homelessness'.
They noted that all 15 states studied were in partial or complete violation of SC orders to set up permanent shelters for the homeless before the onset of winter.
Delhi, ironically one of the better performers, was required to set up 129 permanent shelters for the homeless but only 64 have come up even as peak winter is here. Of these, only 41 were permanent in nature and 21 were found shut.
Read more:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/11420731.cms
Saturday, January 7, 2012
News Digest
24x7 pharmacy opens at AIIMS, offers big savings
NEW DELHI: There's good news for 10,000-odd patients, who visit AIIMS' OPD daily.
In a first-of-its-kind venture in a government hospital, a 24x7 pharmacy shop opened at the hospital this week has the mandate to provide all medicines and surgical consumables prescribed by an AIIMS doctor to an OPD patient at a 56% discount on MRP across the board.
Portability drives health cover innovation
MUMBAI: Health insurance market has become competitive following the introduction of portability which allows customers to switch companies without losing their "no-claim" benefits. Although prices have not come down, companies are offering better features.
Govt changes norms for cancer docs training
NEW DELHI: India has found a way to increase the number of doctors specifically to treat cancer. The Union health ministry will soon allow every professor of three disciplines - radiotherapy, medical oncology and surgical oncology - to teach three students as against the existing norm of two.
Family doc concept is back
New Delhi: Family physicians medical practitioners that were fast disappearing are now being revived.
With India witnessing a rush of medical students keen on becoming specialists,the health ministry and Medical Council of India (MCI) have notified introduction of a new three-year postgraduate course MD in family medicine.
Chairman of MCIs board of governors,Dr K K Talwar said,The curriculum has been prepared and sent to all state governments that have been told to roll out this broad speciality course.
Free treatment still out of reach of poor patients; panel slams govt
NEW DELHI: Poor patients haven't been able to reap benefits of the free treatment provision in top private hospitals in the city. The monitoring committee looking after the implementation has faulted the government policies vis-a-vis lack of publicity and failure by state-run health institutions to refer the needy.
AIIMS creates 230 new posts to meet crunch
NEW DELHI: The Union health ministry on Thursday sanctioned the creation of 230 new faculty positions in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to tide over acute faculty crunch.
Scaling peaks on prosthetic legs
New Delhi: He lost his legs to frostbite at the age of 23 after remaining trapped in an ice cave for 14 days,but the accident did not dull Mark Inglis love of mountaineering.
In 2006,he conquered Mt Everest on prosthetic legs.Just because I became a double amputee is no reason to stop doing things in life, says the 52-year-old New Zealander,now a successful winemaker,corporate consultant,writer and motivational speaker.
12 AIIMS-like bodies by 2017
NEW DELHI: India will have 12 AIIMS-like institutions by the end of 2017.The report of the steering committee on health for the 12th five year plan (incorporating reports of all working groups and deliberations in Committee meetings) has suggested opening of four new prototypes of premiere All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIIMS) in addition to the eight already approved.
Source:TOI
NEW DELHI: There's good news for 10,000-odd patients, who visit AIIMS' OPD daily.
In a first-of-its-kind venture in a government hospital, a 24x7 pharmacy shop opened at the hospital this week has the mandate to provide all medicines and surgical consumables prescribed by an AIIMS doctor to an OPD patient at a 56% discount on MRP across the board.
Portability drives health cover innovation
MUMBAI: Health insurance market has become competitive following the introduction of portability which allows customers to switch companies without losing their "no-claim" benefits. Although prices have not come down, companies are offering better features.
Govt changes norms for cancer docs training
NEW DELHI: India has found a way to increase the number of doctors specifically to treat cancer. The Union health ministry will soon allow every professor of three disciplines - radiotherapy, medical oncology and surgical oncology - to teach three students as against the existing norm of two.
Family doc concept is back
New Delhi: Family physicians medical practitioners that were fast disappearing are now being revived.
With India witnessing a rush of medical students keen on becoming specialists,the health ministry and Medical Council of India (MCI) have notified introduction of a new three-year postgraduate course MD in family medicine.
Chairman of MCIs board of governors,Dr K K Talwar said,The curriculum has been prepared and sent to all state governments that have been told to roll out this broad speciality course.
Free treatment still out of reach of poor patients; panel slams govt
NEW DELHI: Poor patients haven't been able to reap benefits of the free treatment provision in top private hospitals in the city. The monitoring committee looking after the implementation has faulted the government policies vis-a-vis lack of publicity and failure by state-run health institutions to refer the needy.
AIIMS creates 230 new posts to meet crunch
NEW DELHI: The Union health ministry on Thursday sanctioned the creation of 230 new faculty positions in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to tide over acute faculty crunch.
Scaling peaks on prosthetic legs
New Delhi: He lost his legs to frostbite at the age of 23 after remaining trapped in an ice cave for 14 days,but the accident did not dull Mark Inglis love of mountaineering.
In 2006,he conquered Mt Everest on prosthetic legs.Just because I became a double amputee is no reason to stop doing things in life, says the 52-year-old New Zealander,now a successful winemaker,corporate consultant,writer and motivational speaker.
12 AIIMS-like bodies by 2017
NEW DELHI: India will have 12 AIIMS-like institutions by the end of 2017.The report of the steering committee on health for the 12th five year plan (incorporating reports of all working groups and deliberations in Committee meetings) has suggested opening of four new prototypes of premiere All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIIMS) in addition to the eight already approved.
Source:TOI
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