The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was introduced in 2005 in 18 states of the country including Rajasthan.

While the Medical Council of India has refused to notify the proposed Bachelor of Rural Health Care course, the government is considering several other options

Not only urbanites but tribals from far Nicobar Islands are also falling prey to lifestyle diseases such as high blood pressure and obesity.

A study published in the latest edition of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR

New Delhi: The Public Accounts Committee came down heavily on the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) on Thursday, even describing it as a fiasco.

In a report to Parliament, the PAC also asked health ministry to carry out a complete reappraisal and restructuring of the project.
PAC chief and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi told reporters that he found it shocking that the government

Chandigarh To involve private sector in healthcare, the Uttaranchal government has struck a public-private partnership deal.

New Delhi In what would come as a shot in the arm for rural healthcare, the government is planning to form a chain of over 8,000 drug retail outlets spread across the length and breadth of the country to take affordable medicine to the hinterlands. The plan is to set up or contract one drugstore in every block in addition to about four-five drug outlets in all district headquarters.

The flagship programmes of the UPA government in the social sector have had little impact. Spending has been between 25 and 75 per cent in many schemes like the Indira Awas Yojana, the rural housing scheme, the rural electrification scheme and the rural health programme.

Irrigation statistics have come under scrutiny.

When a four-day-old tribal girl from Jawhar, about 130km from Mumbai, was diagnosed with club foot