The Swiss government has agreed to provide Rs 292 million for the Rural Health Development Project (RHDP) phase VII, reports RSS.

Finance Ministry joint secretary Lal Mani Joshi and Elisabeth Von Capeller of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) signed the agreement at the Finance Ministry.

Six phases of the project assisted by the Swiss government were completed on July 15, 200

Satyasundar Barik

BHUBANESWAR: This was the last thing that the Orissa government needed. Swine flu scare which has so far been limited to urban centres of the State has now surfaced in rural region.

Assuming almost epidemic proportions in southern Bihar, cerebral malaria has caused the death of 34 children in Gaya district in a month while 115 children are undergoing treatment for the disease at a hospital there.

New Delhi: Reforming the insurance sector and labour market is all very well but the government

About 47,523 villagers of Gumla, Khunti, Simdega and Ranchi reaped benefits today when Governor K. Sankaranarayanan distributed assets, both individual and community, worth Rs 865.38 crore during the fifth and last Vikas Mela of the season at Morabadi grounds in Ranchi.

Karthik Madhavan

The nurse who was visiting the PHC at Devarmalai a few months ago has stopped coming

Locked: The Primary Health Sub-Centre at Devarmalai in Bargur Hills has not been functioning properly for the past few months forcing villagers to go down plains to the Government Hospital in Anthiyur.

Anita Joshua

NEW DELHI: The Government is planning to make diabetes and hypertension check-ups mandatory for rural India. This was disclosed here on Sunday by Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad while addressing the SAARC Diabetes Conference.
Formulating scheme

As part of its 100-day achievements the Health Ministry has claimed to have taken

Even as delayed monsoons and subsequent floods hit Assam, over 2 lakh flood vulnerable people living in the saporis or river islands of the Brahmaputra have been covered with sustained health care for the first time in their lives by the

New Delhi: The Centre is mulling health insurance cover for all NREGA workers, a move which may incur a huge recurring expenditure on UPA, but also holds the potential to deepen