Shimla: Himachal Produce Marketing Corporation (HPMC) in the presence of chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and Swami Ramdev of Patanjali Yogpeeth entered into an understanding for supplying of apple juice concentrate and other products to the Haridwar based Ayurved unit for 2 years.
Speaking after the signing function, the Yoga guru said that the juice concentrate [...]

Shimla: Contaminated drinking water supply induced jaundice outbreak in the capital found echo in the Vidhan Sabha today with congress president Kaul Singh Thakur moving a call attention motion.
In his reply health minister Rajiv Bindal let the house know that between December and January, 264 people suffering from Hepatitis E jaundice were admitted to Indira [...]

Shimla: The Red-Ribbon Club of Dronacharya College of Education Rait (Kangra) organized a get-together meet with HIV Positive people.
On the occasion, District AIDS Project Officer Dr. R.K. Sood stated that HIV can happen to any of us. So we should treat the HIV +ive people with the same respect and dignity as we would expect [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Health Department and IPH Department did Water Surveillance and sent eight water samples of Shimla city to National Centre for Disease Control, New Delhi out of them seven were tested positive for Hepatitis-E, told an official spokesperson.
In a meeting of senior Health Department, IPH Department and Municipal Corporation including Director Health Services, [...]

Shimla: Considering the recommendation of Dental Council of India, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has recognized the Post-Graduate Degree Courses in Himachal Pradesh Government Dental College in Shimla on the basis of its year 2009 inspection.
Four courses are considered which are Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Periodonties, Community Dentistry and Orthodonties.

Shimla: On an expansion mode Fortis Healthcare has announced setting up of a 100 bedded green filed hospital in Kangra district. The hospital proposed in Kangra would have an inbuilt provision of expanding it to a 200 bedded hospital, a Fortis spokesman stated.
Besides this hospital, the healthcare company also intends to set up a 200 [...]

PALAMPUR: The functioning of Rogi Kalyan Samitis constituted by the state government in various hospitals in the district have come under severe criticism as Crores of rupees collected by these samitis from poor patients are not properly utilized or spent on the poor patients and accounted for .
The recent arrest [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has refused to introduce Bt Brinjal for the time being in the state as trials on assessing its harmful effects on health, environment and ecology have not been conclusively conducted. Therefore, until satisfactory answers for various questions are obtained state govt. will not introduce Bt Brinjal in its land.
The India government’s Genetic [...]

Dharamshala: Youth volunteers of Red Ribbon Club Dronacharya College pinned red ribbons on students and staff of participants of the Red Ribbon cricket match at GC Dharamshala, under the 20-20 AIDS awareness campaign. MD Dronacharya College GS Pathania inaugurated the event at Dharamshala College Ground. Prof YD Singh, Charu Kaushal Nodal Officer and Pushpinder Sharma [...]

Shimla: Lack of disease profile data for the state’s population has egged health administrators to have in place a health management information system (HMIS) that would throw up disease prevalence patterns and enable authorities to keep a tab on medication, diagnostics and treatments provided.
Spelling out the priorities for rolling out the system, Rajiv Bindal, health [...]

Red ribbon Pinning 20-20 Cricket match and rural Games to create HIV AIDS awareness at Palampur University, Mass pledge administered by Tej Partap VC to mark 20-20 campaign
Health Department staff pinned red ribbons on students and staff of HPKV Palampur under the 20-20 AIDS awareness campaign. A canopy and exhibition was setup at the Main [...]

Shimla: Rising incidence of diabetes and trauma cases because of road accidents would require many more vascular surgeons than there are presently in the country, as the super-specialty field of surgery could avert many amputations and help to reduce the health burden thus caused.
Interacting with the media Ravul Jindal, executive member Vascular Society of India [...]

Shimla: After Gujarat and Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh is next to opt for ambitious Emergency Medical Response and Transportation scheme by Indo-German joint venture company Anjana Industries and Ambulance Aicher Union and claims 30 minutes in urban towns and 45 minutes in rural areas as its response time for an ambulance.
Principal secretary health PC Dhiman [...]

Shimla: Taking a step forward to alleviate the pain of poverty from the lives of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families Himachal Pradesh Government launched the second phase of the Rasthtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna in the State.
Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal revealed that Himachal Govt. and The New India Insurance Company Ltd. signed MOU to execute the [...]

Shimla: In a Cabinet meeting presided over by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal it was decided to lease out government land in Mauja Kahlog, tehsil Kandaghat, Solan, to Patanjli Yogpeeth Trust, Haridwar, Uttrakhand, for development of Herbal Research Centre. A land of 96.02 bighas is given on lease for 99years.
This action was taken in view to [...]

Shimla: With another victim falling prey to the dreaded H1N1, the toll in the state capital from the disease has gone up 4 even as statewide 16 people have died so far from the swine flu.
Confirming the death of the woman patient, SS Minhas, medical superintendent IGMC hospital said, the patient who was taking treatment [...]

Shimla: Making healthcare affordable for below poverty line people, the Himachal and central governments are to foot Rs 9 crore each as premium for providing an hospitalization insurance cover to 2.92 lakh people in the state.
Speaking about launch of the state wide Rashtriya Swashta Bima Yojna insurance scheme, Rajeev Bindal, health minister said that after [...]

Shimla: Another life loss has been reported due to Swine Flu in Shimla at Indira Gandhi Medical College.
Nodal Officer Vinod Mehta revealed, the death toll rises to 15 with 103 samples 41 patients have tested H1N1 virus positive in state.
On Monday, a 31-year-old man swine flu patient from Jubbal-Kotkhai area lost his life of [...]