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Search ResultIndia's Health Budget Among The Smallest Globally; Maternal Mortality Rate One Of The Highest In South Asia: WHO
India grapples with one of the highest Maternal Mortality Rates (MMR) in South East Asia, has one of the highest incidences of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) but has one...
Read MoreHealth Policy Focuses On Expanding Access, Quality: Secy
Expanding access of medical facilities, reducing treatment costs and improving quality are the three major objectives of the recently-released National Health Policy, a top...
Read MoreIndia Needs To Fight Maternal Mortality With A Sense Of Urgency
Healthy India is certainly a possibility by aligning proper mother and child care with universal health coverage, which is a long-term objective for India. To achieve this,...
Read MoreLok Sabha Passes Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill; Paid Leaves Increase
The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 protects the employment of women in her maternity period and entitles her of maternity benefit (Credit: iStock Images) Almost six months aft...
Read MoreUP’s Healthcare Paradox: From Worse Than Haiti To Better Than Rest OIf India
At a time when India’s sex ratio at birth is low and declining–from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014)–there are, in poor, populous Uttar Pradesh (UP), districts su...
Read MoreHealthcare Budget 2017: India Should Spend More On Healthcare Sector
India has one bed for every 1,050 patients and to fulfil country's healthcare demand, the government needs to add more beds to its hospitals. In last 67 years since Indepen...
Read More‘The Lancet’ on Achieving Maternal Health Goals in the SDG Era: Tackling Diversity and Divergence
Between 1990 and 2015, there was an incredible 44 percent decrease in global maternal mortality rates. But these impressive gains still fell short of the Millennium Develop...
Read More11 Health Innovations To Drastically Cut Maternal And Child Mortality Rates
Achieving the ambitious target to end maternal and child deaths, enshrined in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), will require ingenuity. The good news is that 11 hea...
Read MoreMobile Diagnostic Device That Helps Pregnant Women In Rural India Receive Timely Medical Attention
A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in ...
Read MoreTackling The Age-Old Problem Of Maternal Mortality Through Modern Technology
Safe Motherhood Week 2016 last week gave us the opportunity to reflect on and talk about the issues surrounding motherhood, and to work together to create simple, innovativ...
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