Betul: 31st March 2013

The police has registered a report against 16 people for being part of a tribal panchayat which punished a girl recently, for allegedly eloping, by cutting her hair in public. The tribal panchayat at Chikhlar village situated about five kilometres away from Betul district headquarters also punished the girl’s uncle for allegedly eloping with her, by making him run around with a garland of shoes and a grinding stone tied to his chest.

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Raipur: 30th March 2013

Private hospitals refuse treatment under government insurance schemes.  The Chhattisgarh government has had to accept yet another setback while trying desperately to rope in private players to strengthen public health care services.  At least 20 major private hospitals have refused to provide treatment under the Chief Minister’s health insurance scheme — Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojana (MSBY). 

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New Delhi : 29th March 2013

The Delhi government is set to built 12 new hospitals with total bed strength of 2,900, Health Minister A.K. Walia said Friday.  "The process to start the construction of hospitals in Dwarka (750 beds), Vikaspuri (200 beds), Madipur (200 beds), Jawlapuri (200 beds), Ambedkar Nagar (200 beds) and Sarita Vihar (100 beds) has been initiated. The formalities are underway for the remaining six hospitals," Walia said.

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Hyderabad: 27th March, 2013

Famous oncologist and chief scientific advisor to Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute (BIACHRI) Dr. Nori Dattatreyudu has suggested inclusion of cervical cancer vaccine in the public health policy in India. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, he expressed concern over the increasing incidence of cancer in India at a time when it had been coming down in the western countries.

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New Delhi: 25th March 2013

The Delhi Government launched three new schemes on Sunday in an attempt to achieve zero deaths from tuberculosis in the Capital. Minister of Health and Family Welfare A.K. Walia, who launched the schemes to coincide with World TB Day, said they will specifically focus on homeless people.

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New Delhi: 25th March 2013

India may have achieved a success rate of 88 per cent in treatment of tuberculosis — higher than the global treatment success rate of 85 per cent — but HIV-TB co-infection continues to be a cause of major concern, as the percentage of people infected with the twin infection increased substantially between 2010 and 2011. The percentage of TB patients tested for HIV increased nationally from 32 per cent to 45 per cent.

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Thiruvananthapuram: March 25, 2013

Patients with advanced cancer of the colon, rectum, or ovaries may now have hope for long-term survival with the Regional Cancer Centre here preparing to offer peritonectomy or cytoreductive surgery, an intensive, multi-disciplinary, and radical procedure currently done only in a few centres across the world.

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25th March 2013

The government is thinking of bringing everyone in the state under the Arogyasri health insurance programme so that treatment for diseases that need treatment for a long period is not a burden, Minister for Health Kondru Murali Mohan said while laying foundation for the Rs. 75 crore oncology and surgery super speciality building on the premises of King George Hospital here on Sunday.

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New Delhi: 25th March 2013

Respecting a rape victim’s desire to abort, the Delhi high court has allowed a 22-year-old unmarried woman to terminate her pregnancy to avoid social stigma. Justice S P Garg took into account the innumerable “mental, physical, social and economical problems” the woman might face if she was not allowed to do so.

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New Delhi: 23rd March 2013

Neeta Kumar (name changed) from Sagarpur Colony in west Delhi went through the first two of her pregnancies with trepidation. “My in-laws punished me for giving birth to two daughters. I was confined to the house for eight long years and was often beaten up,” she says. So when she conceived a third time, she put aside her scruples and went in for sex determination. Finding a doctor was easier than she had imagined. And to her relief, the test confirmed her third-born would be a boy.

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