Indian Railways has reduced Advance Reservation Period (ARP) booking period of rail tickets from from existing 120 days to 60 days (excluding the date of journey) from May 1, 2013....
The Padma Awards are among India’s highest civilian honours, conferred annually to recognise exceptional contributions in various fields such as art, literature, education, sports, medicine, social service, science...
The Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) is a flagship health initiative launched by the Government of India in February 2013 under the National Health Mission (NHM). Its primary...
The Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) is a vaccination programme launched by the Government of India in 1985 to prevent infant and child mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases. The programme...
The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) is a nationwide public health initiative in India established to strengthen and maintain an effective surveillance system for epidemic-prone diseases. Designed to...
The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) aims at correcting the imbalances in the availability of affordable healthcare facilities in the different parts of the country in general,...
DOTS, is an acronym for Directly Observed Treatment, Short course. The DOTS strategy represents the most important public health breakthrough of the decade, in terms of lives which...
Tuberculosis is caused by various strains of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread...
Home Based New Born Care (HBNC) is a new scheme of Ministry of Health Government of India, launched to incentivize ASHA for providing Home Based Newborn Care. ASHA...
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has rolled out a new scheme for the promotion of menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19...
