Calcutta National Medical College Strike Continues Unabated
...tional Medical College to strike work. The chief minister of Kolkata had sent out a request to the striking doctors to return to their work and ensure harmony in hospital campus, while also appeasing them that their demands would be positively looked into. But the doctors seem to have disregarded the chief ...Kolkata: Landmark Health City on the Cards
... Foundation chairman, had a meeting with the chief minister to sanction 20 acres of land near Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences. Dr Shetty said: “Today we discussed with the health problem of the city with the chief minister. Once the land is allotted we will complete the first p...Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Favours Herbal Farming
...help farmers," Nitish Kumar told IANS. The chief minister said such a centre would boost herbal farming. It would also encourage cultivation of medicinal plants. Nitish Kumar said the idea of setting up the centre came to his mind during a visit of agriculture scientists to his bungalow a few days ago. ...Private Public Partnership To Tackle TB, In Karnataka
... private health care sectors and NGOs, said health minister R Ashok, at a function organized at Bangalore, as ...rt of the International TB day celebrations. The minister pointed out to ineffective reach of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) as b...India On The Road To Become 'Open Defecation Free'
...ines of a campaign on the need to wash hands. The minister pointed out other issues related to defecation. "In Haryana and Punjab people are not poor, what they lack is awareness. They have trucks, tractors and four-wheelers but no toilets - this is really surprising. However, states like Gujarat and Mahara...Pranab Mukherjee Urged Military Doctors To Remain On The Cutting Edge
...nd to civilians in times of natural disasters, the minister said while opening the 16th Asia-Pacific Military Medicine Conference here on Monday. Pointing out that the threat of nuclear warfare and the spread of avian flu also needed to be countered, Mukherjee said: As members of the military medical servic...India to Implement National Action Plan against TB-HIV
...tended to almost all the states. In the report the minister read out the data that RNTCP in 1992 has treated 5.45 million patients saving nearly 9.8 lakh lives. Mr. Ramadoss also pointed out that World Health Organization Report 2005 also appreciated the Indian programme against the disease....Israel Claims Eradication Of Bird Flu In Poultry
The Israeli Agriculture minister Zeev Boim claimed on Sunday that they had eradicat...sation to chicken farmers. The Palestinian foreign minister has also spoken with the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and requested the organization help in eli...Delay In Life-Saving Bowel Cancer Screening Programme In UK
... by ministers. The site identified by the health minister in Rugby has been operational form September 2000; no new center has been identified to expand the programme. Additionally, no orders have been placed for home testing cancer kits required for the programme. The Government has not confirmed the full ...Bihar Banned Tobacco Chewing In State Assembly
.... 'We cannot think without chewing paan,' a senior minister said. Chewing tobacco products is a common practice across the state. But its impact is deadly with hundreds being afflicted by mouth cancer and other diseases. --Edited IANS...China India to Discuss Bird Flu
...problem of this latest threat. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and Chinese agriculture minister Du Qinglin met and discussed management of avian influenza in New Delhi. The statement released s...Health Minister Promises New Benchmark for Wait Times
.... He also mentioned that the former Ontario health minister have already taken a step forward by establishing new benchmarks for wait times. The province of Quebec was the first to include a wait times guarantee for certain medical procedures. But he said that this would take time. He also mentioned some p...Hiring Trained Professionals from Developing Country Should Be Stopped
Andy Kerr, the health minister of Scotland set out guidelines that through NHS it...es. In Malawi last year, Jack McConnell, the first minister said that the pay rate in Scotland is sixty times more when compared to the African country’s pay sc...Bangladesh Ill-Prepared for an Outbreak of Bird Flu
... to Abdullah-Al Noman, the fisheries and livestock minister Bangladesh is ill-prepared to handle an outbreak of bird flu. In the case of an outbreak the Bangladesh government claims to have an emergency fund of 50 million takas (US$714,000) to procure equipment in the case of an avian flu outbreak with furthe...Chikun Guniya Outbreak in 29 Nasik Villages
.... However, no cases of malaria were detected," the minister said....Work Permit Required For Indian Doctors in Britain
...tion for medical posts as vacancy rates fall," the minister said. Declaring that NHS hospitals desiring to re...side the EU would need to obtain work permits, the minister said: "We recognize that international doctors have made a huge contribution to the NHS. However, in...Sati Raises its Ugly Head in Madhya Pradesh
...e token, punitive action. In this case, then chief minister Digvijay Singh's Congress government imposed an 'economic embargo' for two years on the village for not preventing the sati. Sati, the traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre, was prevalent among certa...Freedom Fighter And Orissa Congress Leader Dies Of Chest Pain
... 1967, 1974, 1980 and 1985. He served as a cabinet minister in the Nandini Satpathy and J.B. Patnaik governments. He had held various portfolios under different governments including those of finance, tourism and culture. Born in 1915 in Biswanathpur village in the coastal district of Puri, Mohapatra joined......nchmark to contain the inflation rate, the finance minister said it was for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set such a target. "It is for the RBI to decide what should be the benchmark. The central bank sets the target. I think the present inflation rate can be considered good enough," Chidambaram said o...