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Back in market, PSU vaccines cost same as those of pvt cos
Pricing Goes Against Objective Of Reviving Units To Curb Costs
Rema Nagarajan TIMES INSIGHT GROUP
Two of the three public sector vaccine manufacturing units that were shut down in 2008 have started manufacturing and supplying vaccines for the government’s Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), but their prices are now more than double what they were charging before they were shut down a
09/09/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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New Zealand worries as dengue count passes 1500
New Delhi: With the capital recording a total of 1,512 cases of dengue so far, New Zealand has sounded the government out on its concerns over the health of its Games contingent.
New Zealand high commissioner Rupert Holborow met Union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy recently, following a letter seeking assurances on the safety of the Kiwi contingent, besides clarifications on infr
09/09/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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India's mortal combat
The country has made progress in reducing infant mortality but it is still some distance from its 2015 target
Indicus Analytics / September 9, 2010, 0:39 IST
According to the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations, India has the target of reducing the infant mortality rate (IMR) to 28 per 1,000 live births by 2015. Where do we stand today?
09/09/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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India's health
A highly selective summary of the India Health Report 2010
Shankar Acharya / New Delhi September 9, 2010, 0:24 IST
Last week saw the publication by BS Books of the India Health Report 2010 (henceforth referred to as IHR10), edited (and mostly written) by Ajay Mahal, Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari.
09/09/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Government wakes up after 100 die
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today decided to continue with the scheme to provide financial incentives to the tribal patients to draw them to hospitals.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today.
09/09/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
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Illness as metaphor
Every year, as this season rolls around, Gorakhpur and surrounding districts in eastern Uttar Pradesh are ravaged by a form of encephalitis, which causes brain inflammation and kills hundreds of people. This year, over 250 children have died and many more disabled by the disease.
In no other place in India is an illness so predictable and so lethal.
09/09/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Superbug in focus at WHO meet
Teena Thacker
The World Health Organisation’s 63rd Regional Committee Session in Bangkok on Wednesday discussed the drug-resistant “superbug” reported by the renowned journal The Lancet last month.
09/09/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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NACO signs MoU with Global Trust Fund on HIV/AIDS prevention
NEW DELHI: India and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) have signed a three-year grant agreement for $128.4 million or Rs.609.9 crore to support the continuation of flagship programmes of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
The agreement was signed on Wednesday between NACO director-general K.
09/09/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Home-grown dengue scare
Ranchi, Sept. 8: Dengue has arrived on Jharkhand’s doorstep with two confirmed cases reported in the last two days.
Both patients are under treatment at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). While one developed the symptoms in Delhi, the other appeared to have contracted the virus in the state.
CRPF constable L.
09/09/2010
Telegraph (Ranchi)
