Health care facility

The slowdown in fertility rate along with an increase in life expectancy is ageing the population – the share of working and older population is increasing while the share of younger population is declining. read more

Parties often ignore policy incentives as they know they can gain votes along caste and religious lines read more

In the village development project plan shared by the MP’s office with HT, ‘redevelopment of the johad and its approach road’ has been listed as a project which has already been completed. read more

This is because sick people shed a lot more pathogens in their faeces, and, without toilets, staff and patients — this includes mothers and babies — are at much greater risk of diseases caused and spread through human waste, say experts. read more

The police said the villagers, suspicious because the trio were simply whiling away time, insisted on checking the boot of the car that contained iron rods and daggers. read more

The incident took place around 4am on Monday as smoke was seen from the second floor of MCH building. There were no reports of any injury in the fire, the second in more than three months in the nearly 200-year-old hospital. read more

Blames lack of primary health care facilities for the rise in medical expenses read more

A new study says that users of heroin and other injectable drugs were 16 times more likely than other people to develop superbug infections and severe illnesses. read more