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- Spread awareness on health schemes: Dikshit
- Government proposing a new National Urban Health Mission: PM
- UP working on 'Guarantee To Health' scheme for children
- Homeopathy, fish to take on encephalitis in UP?
- Ready to assist encephalitis-hit Bihar: WHO
- Rajasthan to distribute 200 new drugs free
- In encephalitis-hit Bihar, parents pray to god to save their kids
| Spread awareness on health schemes: Dikshit Posted: 30 Jun 2012 05:32 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, June 30 - Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Saturday that the authorities should spread awareness about government health schemes and asked poor people to take advantage of such medical programmes. Now people run to hospitals even for small injuries. However, the main problem is that not everyone is following the trend. There is a large section of society who thinks that hospitals are not affordable because they are not aware of schemes for the poor, Dikshit said at the inauguration of a private hospital in west Delhi. The chief minister asked Delhi Health Minister A.K Walia to start a new awareness campaign on spreading the message for such public health initiatives. There is a scheme called Rashtriya Swasthaya Bima Yojna - for people falling below poverty line it is just that people need to know about the schemes, Dikshit added. The centrally-sponsored RSBY provides health insurance coverage for Below Poverty Line -families. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Government proposing a new National Urban Health Mission: PM Posted: 30 Jun 2012 01:46 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Puducherry, June 30 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the government is proposing a new National Urban Health Mission to focus on the health challenges of people in towns and cities while it would continue the National Rural Health Mission - for another five years. Delivering his address at the third convocation of the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research - here, Singh said: Our government has decided to continue the National Rural Health Mission for the next five years. We are now proposing a new National Urban Health Mission in order to focus on the health challenges in our towns and our cities. Referring to NRHM introduced seven years back with the challenges of high mortality rates of infants, pregnant women and where two thirds of health expenditure is met by people, Singh expressed satisfaction that the scheme has shown that health indicators can be improved with concerted focus on public health systems at primary and secondary levels. Infant and maternal mortality rates have fallen and institutional deliveries have increased. But much more needs to be done and there is a large unfinished agenda of providing affordable healthcare for all our people, he remarked. According to the prime minister, the challenge for policy makers in India is ensuring the proper development of various segments in the healthcare system. He said in India both public and private sector is present in the health sector and he is hopeful of launching a unified National Health Mission. Citing the shortage of doctors and para medical personnel in the country, he said the shortfall is acute in rural and more particularly in north, central and eastern regions of India. The centre and the state governments, particularly state governments of the under-served regions, need to put their heads together, prepare strategies and implement urgent measures to remedy the situation, he urged. On the issue of medical... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| UP working on 'Guarantee To Health' scheme for children Posted: 30 Jun 2012 12:54 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Lucknow, June 30 - The Uttar Pradesh government is working on an ambitious project under the National Rural Health Mission - to give complete and sustained healthcare to about 7.3 million poor and deprived children in the state, an official said. The project, Guarantee to Health -, will cover children aged 2-14 and is likely to be unveiled on Independence Day, August 15. It will be launched with the 'Haq Se Maango' - credo. The age group has been selected, an official said, because it requires healthcare support most. Children under two years are covered under other health schemes and as per the law, boys and girls over 14 are considered adolescents. A comprehensive road map is being prepared to make the best use of the budget to improve healthcare in the state, sources privy to preparing the project draft told IANS. Once the scheme is implemented, children in schools and madrassas of the state would be given medicines, vaccinations, ultrasound facilities and pathological tests free of cost. The project would also cover children of labourers and those belonging to nomadic tribes who keep moving from one place to another. Health Minister Ahmad Hasan is keen on strengthening preventive mechanism for most diseases at the primary level and that the health of children born in the state would be given top priority under GTH, a health official said. Under GTH, a new and value-added version of an earlier healthcare programme 'Vidyalaya Swasthya Karyakram,' children would be issued smart health cards with personal information such as blood group, height, weight and body mass index, among others. A unified toll-free number will be given to the parents to lodge complaints about non-delivery of services. The government would be offering pick and drop facilities to children going to hospitals for treatment or pathological and radiological tests, the health official added. Mukesh Kumar Meshram, mission director of the NHRM, said that... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Homeopathy, fish to take on encephalitis in UP? Posted: 30 Jun 2012 11:34 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Lucknow, June 30 - Even as a worried Uttar Pradesh government is combating the outbreak of encephalitis that has claimed 117 lives in the last one month in the eastern part of the state, the Gorakhpur administration is toying with homeopathy and fish to take on the killer disease. According to highly-placed sources, a 'hate-ke' - proposal came from the divisional commissioner of Gorakhpur Ravindra Naik, who has sent in a detailed proposal, pitching for introduction of homeopathic treatments in Acute Encephalitis Syndrome -, had claimed more than 600 lives in the last season and has started peaking pre-season in areas around Gorakhpur division. Though no case of JE has been detected so far, AES deaths have been reported from Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Maharajganj. Other than this the National Rural Health Mission - has also sanctioned a budget of Rs.39 lakh to buy 'seeds' of the larvae gobbling Gambusia fish. These fish, which eat up the mosquito larvae, will soon be imported by the UP Fisheries department from Odisha, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. Having been successfully used in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh in the past, NHRM Mission director Mukesh Kumar Meshram says it is a good bet to take on the encephalitis menace. The fish seeds would be bred in Fisheries Department tanks and then distributed to 20 districts like Basti, Gorakhpur, Gonda, Maharajganj and others. Other than this, the government is also engaging the allopathic medicinal way to tackle the epidemic. While four ventilators were issued by the government and a special 100-bed hospital was constructed at a cost of Rs.18 crore for AES patients last year, this year the government has already ordered the purchase of 124 ventilators by July. - http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Ready to assist encephalitis-hit Bihar: WHO Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:49 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) New Delhi, June 29 - The World Health Organisation Friday said it was ready to provide all assistance to encephalitis-hit Bihar. Talking to reporters here, WHO India representative Nata Menabde said that while WHO was ready to provide all assistance for establishing what the virus was, it had not been approached by the government yet. We don't have any specific project at present, but we are open to providing assistance whenever the government approaches us. We have all the expertise, Menabde told reporters. She also said that the WHO was providing some assistance based on requests by the Bihar government. Menabde stressed on including Japanese Encephalitis - in routine immunization. JE vaccine should be included in regular universal vaccination programme, she said. An encephalitis infection which has already claimed the life of over 200 children and affected nearly 600 in Bihar as per official data, has symptoms of encephalitis but is not Japanese Encephalitis. Pune-based National Institute of Virology - had Thursday said that the disease spreading through Bihar called Acute Encephalitis Syndrome -, is not Japanese encephalitis. It is yet to be established what the infection actually is. http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| Rajasthan to distribute 200 new drugs free Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:18 PM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Jaipur, June 29 - Carrying forward a popular health initiative, Rajasthan has decided to distribute 200 new generic drugs free of cost at government-run hospitals to benefit millions of patients in the state. Under the Chief Minister's Free Medicine Scheme launched Oct 2 last year, 414 most-used drugs and surgical instruments are at present available at 14,964 distribution centres in government health centres, dispensaries and hospitals across the state. Considering the popularity of the programme, which has so far benefited over 44 million patients, the state government recently sanctioned an additional budget of Rs.11 crore to bring another 200 drugs and surgical instruments under it. The free medicine scheme has been very well received by the masses and now we plan to make it more beneficial by adding 200 new generic drugs and surgical instruments, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot told IANS. Two of the most common diseases for which free medicines are provided at the distribution centres are hypertension and diabetes. Also available are antacid and analgesic drugs. A budget provision of Rs.200 crore was made in 2011-12 and Rs.300 crore in 2012-13 under the scheme, the chief minister said. Quality medicines are purchased by the Rajasthan Medical Services Corporation at low cost and supplied to the drug stores set up in all the 33 districts of the state. Effective arrangements have also been made for the distribution of these medicines, Gehlot added. He said the scheme was a major step towards providing social security to citizens. The popularity of the health scheme can be gauged by the fact that there has been an average 40-50 percent increase in the number of patients coming to government hospitals since its launch. In September 2011, we were getting on an average around 4.4 million patients monthly at state government hospitals, but now this figure has reached 6.2 million, a health department official said. However,... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
| In encephalitis-hit Bihar, parents pray to god to save their kids Posted: 29 Jun 2012 10:25 AM PDT ( From http://www.rxpgnews.com ) Muzaffarpur-, June 29 - The disease has already claimed the lives of more than 200 children and affected nearly 600 in Bihar. Distraught parents are now praying to god to save their children. The disease, called acute encephalitis syndrome -, is not Japanese encephalitis, the Pune-based National Institute of Virology - announced Thursday. In fact the disease remains a mysterious one, Additional Secretary - R.P. Ojha said. Manoj Paswan and his wife Lakhni Devi have lost all hope, as their three-and-a-half-year-old child is fighting for life after contracting AES. They are not paying heed to doctors' assurances that their child will survive. Both are praying for divine blessings for the recovery of their child. Last week, they had admitted their only son in the encephalitis ward of the Sri Krishna Memorial College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur, but his condition has not shown any signs of improvement till date. We are praying to god to save our child now, Paswan, a landless farmer in his early 30s, told IANS. Sunil Kumar, another parent of an AES-affected girl, said his daughter is in a critical condition. Only the rain god can save my child as doctors told us that the monsoon will help to suppress the virus causing the disease, Kumar said. In Muzaffarpur, worst affected by AES, the parents of AES-affected children have begun fearing the worst. We are helpless, hoping against hope for our child's survival, said Ranju Devi, mother of a five-year-old boy who has been at the Kejriwal hospital in Muzaffarpur for five days. Only god can save him now, we are praying for rains, Ranju, who belongs to the Musahar caste, a rat-eating community, that breeds pigs for a living and lives in abject poverty, told IANS. Muzaffarpur civil surgeon Gyan Bhusan said that experts are of the view that monsoon rains will not only help bring down cases of AES but also help to treat children. Heat wave conditions help the virus to spread and... http://www.rxpgnews.com |
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