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Poonam Khetrapal Singh

Poonam Khetrapal Singh

Articles by Poonam Khetrapal Singh

Digital health tech is key to achieving health SDGs

The CoWIN platform enabled and smoothened the humongous task of vaccinating over one billion people against Covid-19.

Updated on Mar 24, 2023 13:57 IST

Universal eye care is not just aspirational, it is an achievable goal

Together, we must achieve rapid, equitable and sustained progress towards universal eye health coverage for everyone everywhere in our region. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Feb 20, 2023 13:21 IST

India’s G20 stint must push for health security

The G20 can play an active role in advancing digital health, building on the tremendous innovations witnessed throughout the Covid-19 response. (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jan 16, 2023 14:51 IST

Act together, act now to end gender violence

This year’s theme — UNITE! Activism to end violence against women and girls — provides a critical opportunity for each of us to reaffirm our commitment to end all forms of violence against all women and girls in all spaces by 2030, in line with Sustainable Development Goal 5. (AFP/Getty Images)

Updated on Dec 9, 2022 17:22 IST

Devise right strategies to contain monkeypox

Monkeypox can cause a range of symptoms, including fever, rash, and swollen lymph nodes, which can be easily confused with symptoms of other illnesses, such as chickenpox, measles, and bacterial skin infections. (REUTERS)

Updated on Jul 31, 2022 14:48 IST

Yoga: A powerful tool to improve health

Schools, workplaces, civil society organisations and communities should consider incorporating yoga into daily activities, supporting each country’s mission to achieve a 15% relative reduction in physical inactivity by 2030 — the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target. (AFP)

Updated on Jun 20, 2022 15:07 IST

To develop equitably, address five priorities

While the Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the inequitable and unsustainable nature of existing political, social and commercial decisions, it has shown that if decision-making is transparent, evidence-based and inclusive, people will support bold and far-reaching policies that protect their health, families and livelihoods. (PTI)

Updated on Apr 6, 2022 14:20 IST

Build back better to achieve universal health care

Between 2001 and 2011, a quarter of all economic growth in low- and middle-income countries resulted from improvements in health, with an average return on investment in health of nine to one (Vipin Kumar/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Dec 13, 2021 14:51 IST

WHO stands with a fairer, healthier, self-reliant, secure India for all

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, Union minister for health and family welfare Mansukh Mandaviya, chief minister Yogi Adityanath, and other dignitaries were also present (ANI)

Updated on Oct 27, 2021 07:23 IST

The digital revolution in Indian health care

The digital tools that India has developed to respond to Covid-19 have had a significant impact. With the rollout of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, India is set to create the digital infrastructure to streamline information for other diseases (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 16, 2021 14:44 IST

Sustaining and scaling up the response to Covid is key to saving lives

A view inside the temporary Covid Care Centre set up at Shehnai Banquet Hall attached to LNJP hospital, in New Delhi, on Friday, May 28. (Sanjeev Verma/HT photo)

Updated on May 31, 2021 11:52 IST

The equitable and efficient deployment of vaccines

As and when vaccines are found to be safe and effective, countries will need to activate detailed plans to efficiently deploy the initial tranches of Covid-19 vaccines to cover up to 20% of the most vulnerable of their population, and to carry out coordinated and equitable deployments thereafter.

Updated on Dec 21, 2020 14:12 IST

A ‘new normal’ is in the offing. Ensure a balance| Analysis

Mobilise the full power of a whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach

Updated on May 12, 2020 12:55 IST

How India can eliminate measles, protect its children

A health worker gives the measles and rubella vaccine to a student at a government school, Assam, September 4, 2018. The drive to eliminate the diseases has gathered momentum.

Updated on Jul 28, 2019 12:33 IST

Ayushman Bharat reforms are timely and ambitious, but need effective implementation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives a health card to beneficiaries as he launches Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Scheme

Updated on Oct 2, 2018 07:28 IST

Efforts to enhance access to safe water, sanitation in India paying off

A girl collects drinking water from a tap in a village in Rajasthan.

Updated on Mar 24, 2018 02:26 IST

Plain packaging will lessen the use of tobacco

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Updated on May 27, 2016 05:21 IST

Packaging laws for tobacco products can’t be restricted to rich nations

In the WHO South-East Asia Region, nearly 1.3 million die every year due to tobacco usage. That’s 150 deaths per hour

Updated on May 26, 2016 15:38 IST

Ratification of WHO protocol a must to stop illicit tobacco trade

Close-to-6-million-people-die-of-tobacco-use-each-year-of-which-600-000-are-nonsmokers-who-die-from-inhaling-second-hand-smoke-Shutterstock

Updated on May 31, 2015 20:48 IST

Science alone cannot end HIV/AIDS

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Updated on Nov 27, 2013 19:16 IST

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