The community health centre (CHC) in the small town of Chomu, near Jaipur, is cited as a model unit of the government healthcare system, which has seen a structural shift through the Rs 14,127-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

Big pharma companies are already working on an H1N1 swine flu vaccine (Bloomberg) Even as the number of swine flu victims cross 100 in the country, Indian pharmaceutical companies are yet to start manufacturing the much-awaited vaccine as they have not received any purchase commitment from the government.

India has approached the world trade organization (WTO) to settle a dispute with the European Union (EU). In the past year, the EU seized 16 Indian drug consignments in transit to Peru, Brazil, Columbia and Nigeria at Frankfurt and Amsterdam ports.

Bitter-Sweet: According to World Health Organization figures, more than 32 million Indians suffer from diabetes (Pic By Subhabrata Das)