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Cerner Corp., a leading provider of healthcare information technology, recently signed a nine year agreement with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to install their Millennium
The Delhi High Court has banned strikes in all government hospitals in the national capital, saying that they were against the interest of the public.
The Indian healthcare industry will need to add 1.4 million doctors and over 3 million nurses by 2017 if the country has to meet even the healthcare standards of other BRIC countries, a report by research firm Technopak and industry body CII said.
Union Health Minister at the 4th Health Summit organised by CII, promised support to the industry, but asked industry for more CSR activities.
India has introduced a medical visa aimed at assisting overseas visitors to travel to the country for low-cost hospital treatment.
GE Healthcare’s Indian arm, a joint venture between Wipro Ltd and General Electric Co., making a range of high-end technology products locally with support from its Japan unit, reducing the costs by about 40 percent, helping rural India market.
The Tamil Nadu Government is keen on taking the benefits of telemedicine to the poor in rural and urban areas of the state.
Old-age support that gives couples with no sons a minimal living allowance of 600 yuan each per year and medical security to poor farmers has been integrated in China’s Law on Population and Family Planning.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$400 million financial assistance package for Indonesia to improve education and healthcare services in the country’s poorest families.
Stressing the need for better healthcare facilities in rural India, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said the country will spend two per cent of its GDP on health in the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12).
The Social Development and Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang of South Africa has launched the telemedicine project and opened renal dialysis unit at Polokwane Hospital.
The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) has launched Mobile Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) in Nagaland (India) in collaboration with the state AIDS control (NSACS).
