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Maharashtra health dept to start cataract campaign from Feb 19

India, Feb. 19 -- The state health department will start the 'Rashtriya Netra Jyoti Abhiyan' cataract-blindness-free Maharashtra campaign under the National Programme for Control of Blindness & Visual... Read More


PCMC takes bulldozer action against edu academy in Ravet

India, Feb. 18 -- The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Friday took action against the illegal structure of a private educational academy in Ravet in which students were allegedly sexua... Read More


PMC to appoint a committee to inspect all private hospitals in the city

India, Feb. 18 -- Following the controversies surrounding the effective implementation of norms governing the private hospitals in the city, the Health Department of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) h... Read More


SBTC to create registry for rare Bombay (Oh) blood group

India, Feb. 18 -- Given the acute shortage of blood with the Bombay (Oh) blood group, the State Blood Transfusion Council (SBTC) has decided to prepare a state registry of these donors. The council h... Read More


JAA wants politicos to take up Right to Healthcare in upcoming election manifesto

India, Feb. 17 -- With the Lok Sabha elections approaching near the Jan Arogya Abhiyan (JAA), a state-wide coalition of NGOs and health professionals, has prepared a ten-point people's health manifest... Read More


Accessibility of healthcare facilities with early infant diagnosis for HIV a key barrier: Study

India, Feb. 17 -- A pan-India study conducted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) to identify the barriers and facilitators accessing the Early Infant ... Read More


PCMC-run schools to get safety nets after student's death

India, Feb. 17 -- After the tragic incident of a fourteen-year-old student's death at Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC)-run Hutatma Chaphekar Vidyalaya, Chinchwad on Friday the civic body ... Read More


Pune civic body unable to finalise locations for 45 Aapla Dawakhanas

India, Feb. 16 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has been struggling since December to finalise locations for 45 Aapla Dawakhana (Health clinics) in the city. The delay in finalising suitable l... Read More


PCMC demolish 3-storey under-construction building

India, Feb. 15 -- The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Wednesday demolished an unsafe three-story under-construction building in Wakad. The building's whole structure was unsafe, had d... Read More


Sharad Pawar proposes Bharat Ratna for DrPonawalla

India, Feb. 14 -- Following the Serum Institute of India's (SII) contribution to humanity and healthcare Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo, Sharad Pawar on Wednesday lauded Dr Cyrus Poonawalla'... Read More