Sri Lankan government is taking measures to improve the healthcare facilities in the rural areas of the country, the Health Ministry said.

Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said the government has set a priority to improve the health conditions of the villages and under the initiative the Ministry has made allocations to provide more ambulances to rural hospitals.

New Delhi: This is what a prescription confiscated recently in a Madhya Pradesh primary healthcare centre read

A two-day training programme was organised in collaboration with NRHM and UNICEF on January 11 and 12 at Swahid Bhavan, Lakhimpur for the volunteers of Nawa Bihan Samaj (NBS) for monitoring the trainingprogramme on Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC) in the village level formed by National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Assam.

The health ministry is planning to screen all people aged 30-40 in rural areas for lifestyle diseases like diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Workers of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) who are involved in reproductive health care of women and children in the rural areas will now be trained for the multi-drug resistant tuberculosis eradication programme in North-East Delhi.

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, a mega health camp was organised by Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) here on Sunday. The camp was aimed at treating and providing medical attention to inhabitants of the town besides an open invitation to all residents of peripheral villages.

About 90 kilometres from Pune, Salungan village in Bhor taluka has a population of about 300 people. Add to this the families living in the 35 villages surrounding the area, and the total population easily crosses a few thousands. Yet, there are no medical facilities to speak of, with the nearest health centre being at least 35 kilometres away.

BHOPAL: The Comptroller and Auditor General