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Remdesivir now a part of COVID-19 therapy in new health protocol
The Union Health Ministry has recently included Remdesivir as a part of investigational therapy and updated Clinical Management Protocol of COVID-19 patients. The ministry has also added loss of taste and loss of smell as two key symptoms of COVID-19 ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Renovated National Food Laboratory inaugurated at Ghaziabad
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan inaugurated regulator Food Safety and Standard Authority of India’s (FSSAI) National Food Laboratory (NFL) in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. It was inaugurated on the occasion of 13th anniversary of enactment of Food Safety and Standards Act, ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2019
ICMR finalizes India’s first National Essential Diagnostics List
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has finalized India’s first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL). With this, India has become the first country to compile such list that will provide guidance to government for deciding kind of diagnostic tests that ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2019
Health Ministry Urged to Frame Law to Ban Manufacture, Sale of e-cigarettes
The Ministry of Commerce and Industries has urged the Health Ministry to frame law banning manufacture and sale of e-cigarettes in the country as in the absence of the domestic legislation, it would not be possible to put a blanket ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Health Ministry launches health information platform to monitor public health surveillance
Union Ministry Health and Family Welfare has soft-launched Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) segment of Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) in seven states. The first one-of-its-kind initiative lannched by the Central Government to monitor public health surveillance. Integrated Health Information ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2018
Health Ministry partners with Dell and Tata Trusts to provide technology solution for healthcare program
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has recently exchanged MoUs with Tata Trusts and Dell to provide technological platform for nationwide prevention, control, screening and management program of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs). NCD IT solution platform NCD IT ..