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French Minister To Visit La Reunion Island To Monitor Chikungunya Epidemic

...pite the high incidence of the disease, the health minister has stated that travelers can visit the island. Use of certain products or other similar precautionary measures can prevent transmission of the disease. The Tourism department has however reported some cancellations over the past few days. The heal...

DOTS For Tuberculosis TO Cover Entire Country

... petty shops and dhabas in remote areas," said the minister at a function here to open a new HIV vaccine trial and patient care facility. The facility has come up at the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here at a cost of Rs.112.5 million. The TRC, an institution under the umbrella of the Indian Council of...

Health Minister Promises Strict Quality Control On Herbal Medicines

...on of products will be followed very strictly, the minister said. The onus will be on manufacturers to safeguard products, ensure that banned heavy metals are not there and all ingredients of classical formulations are mentioned on the bottles. "We need strict quality control," he said. Source; IANS...

Annual Budget 2006: Health And Education Sector Receive A Boost

... 100, 000 blocks in the rural India. The finance minister has allocated more funding for the National Rural Health Mission with the budgetary provision being increased from Rs 6,553 crore to Rs 8,207 crore in next fiscal. This would extend the health care facilities to 100,000 blocks in rural areas. Othe...

Mind your looks for Bush visit, as world is watching

...n to the squad that provides security to the prime minister and visiting dignitaries along with the special protection group (SPG) over a lengthy two-hour briefing Monday evening. These 150 men and women would be posted in close proximity to the US president, who lands here Wednesday evening for a three-day ...

HIV-Positive Woman To Be Congress Candidate In Assam

...rict, about 140 km from here. Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is the sitting legislator from Barhampur. "I am contesting the elections on the Congress ticket and this would be a big challenge for me and the cause for which I am fighting to save people from getting infected with HIV," Go...

Spanish legislation Vote For 'Equality of sexes'

...id Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, deputy prime minister in the country's first half-female government. After becoming prime minister in 2004, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero made the equality of the sexes one of his priorities. The law...

Government Medical Records Find Their Way to the Auctions House

...k. The man was aware of its content only then. The minister told the Canadian Press that such act was unacceptable from the government side and showed their lack of responsibility. The Vancouver Sun's technology specialist said that there were no attempts made to delete the text present in the tapes. ...

Chill Out With Chilly Chicken

...ge of VIPs - the Haryana governor, the Delhi chief minister and the Imam of Jama Masjid who will tuck into the fave bird, to change the course of the bird which has been off late riding a low wave. This event is sponsored by the Poultry Federation of India as a shot in the arm to scare away fears of impending...

Malaysia Struggles to Control Hand, Foot-and-Mouth Disease In Sarawak

...er control," he said. Sarawak state's deputy chief minister George Chan Hong Nam said the situation was getting worse since parents are not taking the disease seriously, "The people should not take this lightly, as the consequences can be serious," he was quoted as saying by the Star daily. Hand, foot and mou...

7,500 Cancer Cases Misdiagnosed in NSW

...nter New England Health, Terry Clout. State health minister John Hatzistergos has expressed regrets about the whole situation, "I do sincerely regret any distress that has been caused to any person as a result of the actions that have been taken," he said. But state member for Tamworth Peter Draper says it is...

Quebec arming itself to combat a potential influenza pandemic

...ines and antivirals,'' the plan says. The health minister has expressed a prayer, hoping such a situation of a pandemic does not ever arise, "What is obvious today, it should be obvious, is that everyone here is working together to prepare our society and the health-care network for the occurrence of this ...

Buddhadeb pledges to donate his body

...ary of Ganadarpan, Brojo Roy said that, "The chief minister has always been supporting us in this cause." Gana...odies for medical research. The 62-year-old chief minister showed his keenness to donate his body three months back. He expressed his wish to Kolkata mayor Bik...

Culling followed by checking: Government to audit the documents, to ascertain no skeletons in the closet!

...ultry farmers have addressed a letter to the chief minister Narendra Modi to show them a way for an alternative employment for six months. Senior government officials have offered assistance to womenfolk from Uchchaal with a plan to employ them in small scale industries like the cottage industry. An employmen...

Jordan: The Kingdom Untouched By Avian Flu

...ear of a bird flu outbreak in the country. The minister made the remarks during a banquet held by the Jordanian Veterinary Association. In that occasion to celebrate this great achievement the people were served chicken as the main course. The banquet was attended by several media representatives and...

MMR Vaccine Immunizations Rates Are On The Rise

...he said that it was not appropriate and the health minister would find a solution to this kind of a problem. Health experts have said there was no evidence that single vaccines were safer for children than MMR. A Scottish Executive spokeswoman said that the MMR vaccine is the safest, most effective way to ...

Children In Scotland Denied Access To Dental Care

...e pointing out the reality of the situation if the minister does not reconsider the measures he has put in place. Dentists have to make business decisions. They are not trying to make money for their own pockets. They want to make money to invest in their service, to modernise the services they offer and give...

Community Dentists To Receive 10 Percent Salary Boost

..., including those with special needs," said health minister Rosie Winterton. "It is important that, like their colleagues in other branches of medicine and dentistry, their roles and working conditions support the delivery of high quality clinical services for patients, and recruitment and retention of staff....

Malaysia to Beef in Medical Care to Fight against HFMD

... local authorities, state officials and the health minister all are working towards the elimination of the disease from the country....

Health Task Force For India

...geing countries,” the statement added. The prime minister has asked deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia to set up this task force that would have representatives from the union health ministry, ministry of health of selected states and professional experts. This committee wou...

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