'Haryana AIIMS to have India's biggest cancer centre'
by IANS
Jhajjar: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad on Saturday announced that a National Cancer Institute (NCI) would come up in the AIIMS-2 campus at Badhsa village in Haryana, which would be an even bigger facility than the Tata Cancer Institute, Mumbai.

A National Cardio Care Centre (NCCC) would also be set up in this institute, he said.

The health minister was speaking after inaugurating the outreach OPD of AIIMS Badhsa village, 40 km from New Delhi, in Haryana's Jhajjar district.

He said the proposed NCI would have 600 beds in the 2,100-bedded AIIMS-2, and would be the biggest cancer institute in the country, bigger than even the Tata Cancer Institute in Mumbai....more    
12:49 AM, Nov 25, 2012

Parties play encephalitis politics as babies die New Delhi: Following CNN-IBN's continuing focus on encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asked Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh to visit the state and asses the situation. More than 400 children have died so far this year in a problem that's gone for decades. Eight children have died at the BRD medical college in Gorakhpur in the last 48 hours. "We have...  
10:09 PM, Oct 20, 2011

BJP alleges Cong plot to put 2G blame on DMK New Delhi: Insisting that the 2G spectrum scam happened with the 'blessings' of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, BJP on Wednesday said Congress is now 'romancing' in public with DMK on the issue but conspiring in private to put all the blame on its ally. "Congress and DMK are together on the issue of corruption and acted in a pre-planned, well-thought out manner on the 2G...  
06:49 AM, May 26, 2011

PM asks Azad to form doctors' panel to fight swine flu
by IANS
The panel will report to the PMO and give correct information to the public. ...  
03:42 PM, Aug 09, 2009

Govt urges people not to panic over swine flu The health officials have asked people not to go for self medication. ...  
12:55 PM, Aug 08, 2009

Cong gets ready for polls, reshuffles state heads Gulam Nabi Azad was given in charge of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Orissa. ...  
12:49 AM, Feb 20, 2009