Govt to provide Rs 1-lakh health cover to BPL families soon

The Central Government will provide Rs 1 lakh annual health insurance coverage to eight crore families of Economically Weaker Section […]

Sai Infosystem (India)

SUNIL KAKKAD Chairman & Managing Director COMPANY NAME: SAI INFOSYSTEM (INDIA) LTD Corporate Headquarters Super Plaza, Sandesh Press Road, Vastrapur, […]

J-K to spend Rs 315 crore on upgrading rural health facilities

Jammu and Kashmir Government will be spending Rs 315 crore this financial year on upgrading health care facilities including setting up of 11 mobile medical units in accident prone zones and GPS-guided ambulance service. The Centre has sanctioned Rs 263.32 crore plan under under National Rural Health Mission for year 2011-12 for Jammu and Kashmir while the state government will contribute its share of Rs 30.98 crores, officials said here today. The state also has Rs 51.65 crore available under the centrally-sponsored scheme from last year’s unspent funds, the officials said. They said Rs 5.02 crore will be spent on procurement of mobile medical Units for 11 districts.

Over 800 rural hospitals don

There was a shortage of 4,833 primary health centres (PHCs) across India and over 800 rural hospitals were functioning without a single doctor, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told parliament Wednesday.

Role of telehealth in developing nations : Rajendra P Gupta, President & Director, Disease Management Association of India (DMAI)

[This article was published in the March 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Economy and healthcare are two major thrust areas in every part of the world. If a country has a healthy population, it has a productive workforce that leads to a vibrant economy

E-APPLICATIONS IN NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH MISSION : Toms K. Thomas

[This article was published in the February 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

�The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have mu ch; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”