The district administration has finally given approval to upgrade the health infrastructure in rural Islamabad and increase the emoluments and incentives for the medical staff working in the health centres and units of the rural areas.

New Delhi: The government is facing financial crunch and has to borrow massively from the market to meet its budget deficit, but an audit of one of its social sector schemes that has more than Rs 25,000 crore riding on it has found large amounts unspent.

THE West Bengal government on Wednesday passed the controversial Rural Health Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 in the state assembly by majority vote.

The performance of the flagship health programme especially for the vulnerable section of the society, the National Rural Health Mission in the State has come under the scanner of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.

The second phase of Red Ribbon Express, a 10-coach exhibition train for creating awareness about HIV/AIDS in farflung areas of the country, was flagged-off on Tuesday by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

The express is aimed at creating awareness about HIV/AIDS.

Most of the interior areas of Sonitpur district, which have been identified as endemic to malaria and diarrhoea, have been provided with the 108 (Mrityunjoy) services for which people of these interior areas have benefited a great deal.

Mohan Dharia

Only a process of reverse migration based on the Gandhian model can save India

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), launched in 2006 as the UPA