Zubeda Hamid
Chennai

It can lead to perineal injuries, haemorrhage, pain and infection
WHEN G Maria (name changed) was giving birth, she did not even know the doctor was performing an episiotomy.

Congress candidate from East Delhi constituency Sandeep Diskhit on Tuesday said the Congress is committed to ensure food security as it has promised to enact a Right to Food law.

Chandigarh: Chandigarh has been adjudged among the top five performing states and union territories in the country by TB India-2008 RNTCP (Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme) status report, brought out by the Union Health Ministry. The treatment success rate of tuberculosis for the year in Chandigarh was 86 per cent.

HAILAKANDI, April 20: Under NRHM scheme, the health infrastructure in the district is going to be improved in all aspects. Pharmacies in all health centres in Block level in this district have been opened by deputing Pharmacists. Lala, Katlicherra, Algapur and Hailakandi Pharmacies are supplying medicines free of cost.

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Manifesto of the Indian National Congress

The present government and the ones before it have neglected the health sector, as the National Family Health Surveys show.

WHAT is the state of the nation

The National Rural Health Mission, a scheme under the Union government to provide effective healthcare to the rural populace, is likely to get extended up to 2017, as certain programmes under the scheme were very well responded to in some parts of the country.

The United Progressive Alliance government has lost a valuable opportunity to expand and improve healthcare access across the land and across all social sections during its five-year term. The Common Minimum Programme promised a public expenditure on health of between two and three per cent of the GDP.