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Delhi adds 1,288 hospital beds; over 5 lakh emergency calls handled in 2025: Economic SurveyDelhi's healthcare saw a modest bed expansion in 2025-26, adding 1,288 beds, primarily in Delhi government hospitals. Future plans include ...
World Health Day 2025: India marks progress in maternal and child health with key initiativesOn World Health Day 2025, India highlights substantial progress in maternal and child health through initiatives like Ayushman Bharat and t...
India on track to meet SDG health targets well ahead of 2030: GovtThe Union Cabinet reviewed NHM's progress, noting significant advancements in maternal and child health, disease elimination, and healthcar...
India registers 'significant progress' in reducing malaria cases: WHOIndia has made significant strides in reducing malaria cases and deaths, exiting the WHO's high-burden group. Community health workers, pri...
Artificial light may aid in controlling malaria, likely to alter mosquito biologyThe use of artificial lights can trick malaria-transmitting mosquito species that feed nocturnally into behaving as if it's daytime.
14 million more malaria cases in 2020 worldwide; India sustained reduction in disease burden: WHOThe World Malaria Report 2021, brought out by World Health Organization (WHO), highlighted the havoc malaria continues to wreck on the worl...
Hospitals may use beds reserved for COVID-19 cases for dengue patients, says Delhi governmentThe health department directed the medical directors and medical superintendents of Delhi government run hospitals to use one third of the ...
World Malaria Day: The disease spreads only in monsoon & other myths bustedOne cannot have long-lasting immunity from malaria.
India only high endemic country to report malaria cases decline of 17.6% in 2019 over 2018: Government"The Annual Parasitic Incidence (API) reduced by 27.6 per cent in 2018 as compared to 2017, and by 18.4 per cent in 2019 as compared to 201...
India recorded largest reductions in malaria cases in South-East Asia between 2000-2019: WHOWHO noted the "impressive gains" made by India in the fight against malaria, with reductions in cases and deaths of 18 per cent and 20 per ...
India's child mortality rate declined between 1990 and 2019: UNThe 'Levels & Trends in Child Mortality' Report 2020 said that the number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record...
Prepare to tackle non-COVID-19 diseases in monsoon: Maha task force tells governmentTalking to PTI, chairman of the task force, Sanjay Oak, said they have asked the government to gear up for mitigation of malaria and dengue...
Malaria to be eliminated from 15 states by 2020: GovernmentBy 2020 we will be able to eliminate malaria from 15 states with an annual parasite incidence (API) of less than one case per thousand popu...
India needs $18 billion to win battle against malariaIndia, with the highest malaria burden outside Africa, will need an investment of $18 billion to achieve its 2030 deadline to eliminate the...
Government plans implementing National Framework for Malaria Elimination with Sun PharmaThe public-private partnership agreement is likely to be signed next week and will add funds to the National Framework for Malaria Eliminat...
Malaria on decline in India, half a million die globally: WHOIndia has seen a "major" decline in the number of deaths caused by Malaria in the last three years even as more than half a million people ...
Over 111 crore Indians at risk of getting infected with malaria: World Malaria Report 2014The country also faces the most deadly threat of the malaria strain becoming resistant to the most advanced drugs available till date.
India almost wins battle against malaria, sees steady fall in casesThough there has been a spurt in dengue cases in the past couple of years, the number of malaria cases across the country has actually decl...
Diclofenac not the sole cause of vulture deaths, say expertsUse of diclofenac in animals has been reported to have led to a sharp decline in the vulture population in the Indian subcontinent and thei...
- Drug-resistant malaria may spread, India warned
A new research has warned that drug-resistant malaria parasites on the border of Thailand & Myanmar may spread to India.