Healthcare

New Delhi: A group of women running a tailoring unit in Andhra Pradesh has joined hands with the government in not only fighting COVID-19 but also generating livelihood for themselves at the time of lockdown. The tailoring unit located in…

New Delhi: The Union Health ministry issued guidelines for RT-PCR pooled sampling for specific citizens to test for coronavirus. A decision has been taken to use one-time RT-PCR based pooled sampling for surveillance purposes vis-à-vis…

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has directed chief secretaries of all states and Union Territories (UT) to ensure implementation of district-level facility-based surveillance for Covid-19 through sero-survey. A sero-survey involves…

Mumbai: Covid-19 cases continue to grow in Maharashtra, India’s hotspot. If the news of positive coronavirus cases being detected in Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia, alarmed the country a few weeks ago, the latest shocker is the first…

Kolkata: In a recovery of miraculous proportions, Nitaidas Mukherjee beat Covid-19 and returned to his south Kolkata residence after being on a ventilator for 38 days. According to doctors, it’s a very rare case because a Covid-19 patient…

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday that testing capacity for novel coronavirus has been increased to around 95,000 tests per day in India. The minister informed that till Friday, 15,25,631 tests had been…

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Saturday issued revised guidelines for discharge of coronavirus patients from hospitals. As per the new policy, if patients classified as very mild and pre-symptomatic cases do not show any fever for…

New Delhi: In a major boost to India’s fight against Covid-19, the Central government and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Friday signed a $500 million ‘Covid-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project’.…

New Delhi: Four Covid-19 hospitals in India have received clearance to be part of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) clinical trial process to find an effective treatment for the novel coronavirus which has killed over 2.5 million. WHO…

New Delhi: There is a proposal to convert railway coaches into ‘train hospitals’ in Tier II and Tier III cities as well as villages. A total of 5,150 non-airconditioned train coaches have already been converted into “isolation centres” for…