The three city hospitals under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will soon start hiring nurses on contract basis. To check if recruitment on contract would lead to better work culture and patient-care, the DGHS has decided to implement the system in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Sucheta Kripalani Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital. 

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New Delhi: 30th November 2012

United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi has been urged by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to inaugurate the Dilli Annashree Yojana food security scheme under which initially about two lakh families would be paid a sum of Rs. 600 per month from December 15.

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New Delhi: 29th November 2012

Seventeen per cent of working women in India claim that they have experienced sexual harassment at workplace. This high incidence of sexual harassment, both in the organised and the unorganised sectors, was revealed in an opinion poll titled ‘Sexual Harassment at Workplaces in India 2011-2012” released by Oxfam India.

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New Delhi: 29th November 2012

A day after the Union Government rolled out cash transfer for subsidies and entitlements, Jan Sansad, a coalition of more than 60 people’s movement, rejected it for being “anti-people”. Terming the scheme “an attempt by the government to wash off its hands from the responsibility to provide basic services and social security to its citizens”, the coalition said direct cash transfer will have disastrous impact on the lives of the marginalised who are dependent on the Public Distribution System (PDS) and other forms of entitlements in health and education.

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Ranchi: 29th November 2012

The number of pregnant women testing HIV positive in Jharkhand is a cause of concern, a Unicef statement said Thursday. According to data released by the Jharkhand unit of Unicef, based on National Aids Control Society (NACO) findings, till September this year, 66 of 69,200 pregnant women were found to be HIV positive. The number was 76 of 61,500 in 2011.

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New Delhi: 28th November 2012

With the HIV/AIDS epidemic showing signs of reversal globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and countries are now working towards zero new HIV infections, zero deaths from AIDS-related illnesses and zero discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS.

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New Delhi: 28th November 2012

Delhi government is looking to procure bedside, mobile CT scan machines as an alternative to the traditional units, which are prone to frequent breakdowns. These machines are particularly helpful during hospital emergencies, for quick CT scans in case of head injuries.

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27th November 2012

Everyday, when Badal, a sturdy young man of Sunderbans returns home at dusk, he finds his mother, Kamala, sitting placidly in the verandah, staring into the distance with strangely unseeing eyes. The house, otherwise, is abuzz with activity. 

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New Delhi: 27th November 2012

About 50,000 'scheme workers', majority of them women, from 24 states converged on Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Monday for a two-day maha padao (sit-in protest) organized by CITU, the trade union affiliated to CPM. Among them are anganwadi wokers, social health activists, mid-day meal workers, para teachers, krishak sathis and thousands of women who work in various flagship schemes of the Centre, but are not paid even minimum wages.

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New Delhi: 27th November 2012

India has recorded over 35,000 dengue cases in 2012, the highest number in a year so far, parliament was told Tuesday. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Health Abu Haseem Khan Choudhary said total 216 dengue deaths were reported till mid November this year across the country.

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