Shimla: The state got its first eye bank today with chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal inaugurating the new facility at Indira Gandhi Medical College today. Set up in collaboration with Eye Bank of Government Medical College, Chandigarh, at a cost of Rs 40 lakh, the hospital would be able to offer eye donation, processing, preservation [...]

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Shimla: Financial mis-management at district levels is the highlight of a report on Sirmaur district by Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that has done a district centric audit of one of most backward districts of the Himachal for the 2004-09 period. The report, which was laid in the Vidhan Sabha on Monday, states, “ the [...]

Shimla: For participating in the ‘2nd Shimla Running and Living Half Marathon and More‘ the organizers have thrown open the registration. The run is scheduled to be held after the rains on 26th September, VC Pharka, principal secretary youth affairs and sports disclosed. Registration forms would be be available at The Ashiana Ridge, Himalayan Motoword [...]

Shimla: With a 34 year old man from Chirgaon region of Shimla district having died here from swine flu on Thursday, health workers have fanned out into his native village and administered preventive treatment to those who had come in contact with him. Anil Sharma (34), a resident of Gumma Tikkri village in Chirgaon Tehsil [...]

Shimla: With the Government – contract doctors stand off having failed to find a resolution, doctors today held a peaceful demonstration outside the Vidhan Sabha – which is meeting for a monsoon session, to highlight pay parity and other service conditions for them.

An Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) and DOTS centre facilties to patients of Ayurvedic college Paprola, were ingurated by Trilok Kapoor (Chairman Wool procurement and marketing federation HP) this week. This is the seventh ICTC in District Kangra established under the National AIDS Control Programme. On the occasion Dr RK Sood Dsitrict AIDS Programme [...]

More than 400 contractual doctors went on leave for 3 days from today. Demanding there rights of regularization of there job. But none of the Govt. Officer bother to enquire why they want to get regularized. I would like to highlight what are the side effects and the benefits of this. Benefits : A doctor [...]

Shimla: With most doctors on contract services with the government abstaining from work for the second day, confrontation between them and the authorities is on the boil as the government threatens to take penal action against those who are on strike. Saying that the doctors had backtracked on the terms that had been agreed upon [...]

Shimla: Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal announced a week long free hospitality including boarding and lodging in any of the HP Tourism Development Hotels to world record holders of the Commonwealth Games that are to be held in New Delhi in October, 2010. The week-long free package to the World Record Holders aimed at attracting [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Government has constituted Himachal Pradesh Private Clinical Establishments Registration and Regulation Council. P. C. Dhiman, Principal Secretary, Health would be the Chairman of the Council.

Shimla: With 28 fresh cases of diarrhea reported today, the total number of those stricken with the water borne disease has crossed 300, even as the health official make the rounds of a house to house visit in the affected locality for preventing its spread. A health spokesman said that of those who reported with [...]

Shimla:Alarmed by the diarrohea cases reported from one locality of Sanjauli area turning out to be Cholera, health officials have stepped in to do a house to house check in the affected area so as to pick out and treat active cases early. Director health Vinod Pathak in a communiqué stated that of the 16 [...]

Shimla: With 53 fresh cases of diarrhea reported in the city today, in three days since the outbreak 170 diarrhea patients have been recorded, mainly from a crowded locality in Sanjauli, which health workers say is due to use of contaminated water. State surveillance officer, Vinod Mehta disclosed that of the 53 cases reported today, [...]

Shimla: The Himachal government, in the presence of chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, today signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GVK – EMRI (Emergency Management and Research Institute) Hyderabad for starting free ambulance services in the state on a private public partnership (PPP) mode. PC Dhiman, principal secretary health on behalf of the government [...]

Cabinet Decisions Cabinet nod for setting up 600 MW pithead thermal plant in West Bengal Shimla: To meet power shortages especially in winter months, the Himachal cabinet today decided to set up a 600 pithead thermal plant in west Bengal under a joint venture, even as it approved continuation of the market intervention scheme (MIS) [...]

Seraj Valley-Kullu: Two first year undergraduate students from reputed Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication (SIMC, Pune) completed a six-week internship starting May working with My Himachal in the rural Upper Seraj Valley of Kullu District. Dushyant Kumar and Maynak Susngi, SIMC students were involved with a number of My Himachal projects which included video [...]

Shimla: With no other desire but to save lives, voluntary blood donors on a ‘Save Life Mission’ across Himachal Pradesh have blanketed out professional donors, if there were any, as no HIV +ve donor case had been detected so far. At a camp organized to mark the World Blood Donor’s Day, chief minister Prem Kumar [...]