New Delhi: The healthcare industry on Friday welcomed moves to promote preventive health check ups and research in pharma in the Budget but said more could have been done to accelerate growth in the sector. "More could have been done in this Budget but there are lots of good things in it for the heath care sector," Apollo Hospitals Enterprise ED Operations Sangita Reddy said. Finance Minster Pranab Mukherjee has...
05:31 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Health sector in India has seen some of the most dramatic growth stories in the past decade. Ranging from improved health care facilities to low cost treatment, the success of the health sector has been primarily driven by private enterprise. There has been a huge improvement in the R & D facilities in the nation. The pharmaceutical segment has also registered phenomenal upward movement. However all this has not happened...
06:00 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Mumbai: The Indian healthcare industry is rapidly growing at 12 per cent but yet the sector is in shambles. The sector, therefore, has high expectations from the Union Budget, both for reforms and expenditure. India's healthcare industry is currently valued at $ 65 billion. Assocham and rating agencies expect it to hit $ 125 billion by 2015. Yet, the sector is in shambles, with just one hospital bed available for...
10:14 AM, Mar 13, 2012
By Ranjit Shahani As 16 March draws close, Indian healthcare is once again at the crossroads waiting with bated breath for the Union Budget in the hope that it will provide the necessary impetus to the pharmaceutical industry. Announcing Infrastructure status for Healthcare would be just what the doctor ordered. The reality is that rural and semi-urban India lacks even the most basic healthcare infrastructure. Since setting up facilities in...
06:31 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Apprehending return of service tax for the sector in the upcoming Budget, leading diagnostic chains want Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to maintain status quo while seeking incentives for private players to expand in rural India. Leading firms, Super Religare Laboratories (SRL) and Metropolis Healthcare also said the government must cut duties on chemicals, kits and machines that are used for carrying out diagnostic tests. Spelling out Budget expectations for the...
04:50 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: As directed by the Prime Minister a meeting was held in PMO on Government's priorities in Health sector, particularly over the next 5 years. The meeting specifically focused on implementation of recommendations of the National Commission forMacroeconomics & Health (NCMH) and the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Health set up by PlanningCommission. The Prime Minister has emphasised the need for increased outlay on healthsector during 12thPlan so...
03:12 PM, Feb 29, 2012
On a day when television channels stayed focused on the fallout of the ongoing tussle between the Army Chief and the Government, hundreds of people ...
03:52 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi, Feb 11 (PTI) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who will be undergoing a minor abdominal surgery tomorrow, says that the problem is a legacy of the accident during 'Coolie'. The 69-year-old actor suffered a near fatal intestinal injury on July 26, 1982 while filming a fight scene for 'Coolie' with co-star Puneet Issar. He remained in hospital for many months at that time. Bachchan was again admitted to hospital in...
12:27 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Mumbai: Cricketer Yuvraj Singh's battle against cancer has put the spotlight once again on the disease that claims 20,000 lives a day worldwide. The question is whether India is well equipped to battle the world's biggest killer. Diagnosed with germ cell cancer, cricketer Yuvraj Singh is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the United States. While it is a shocking news for his fans, but a cancer diagnosis in the 30s is...
07:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
As Yuvraj Singh battles cancer, experts discuss how India's healthcare has been fighting the challenge of cancer. ...
11:30 PM, Feb 07, 2012
CHENNAI: Healthcare in the State and the country is in the hands of the private sector, as shown by a white paper on private-public partnership in the health sector, released on Saturday. According to the findings of the study, conducted jointly by the AIDS Prevention and Control (APAC) Project, Voluntary Health Services (APAC-VHS), IIT-Madras, MSG Strategic Consulting with the support of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the...
08:50 AM, Jan 30, 2012
When can a baby girl born in Madhya Pradesh expect to live as long and healthy as a baby girl born in Kerala, overcoming the six-fold higher risk of dying before her first birthday? When will a rural Indian have the same level of satisfaction about the healthcare he or she receives, as a foreign medical tourist featured in the brochures of corporate hospitals? Will the 40 million Indians, who...
10:17 AM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Concerned over the state of skill development, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked the ministries to prepare plans for the next year with special focus on skilling needs of minorities, SC, ST and backwards. Chairing a meeting of the National Council on Skill Development, he asked his Cabinet colleagues to focus on sectors like infrastructure, real estate, auto and auto components, textile, healthcare, retail and logistics. Singh...
09:56 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Bankura: A former IAS officer and a doctor in West Bengal has undertaken an initiative to make healthcare accessible and affordable, looking to help more than 70 per cent of India's population living in the villages. A sample government hospital in Bengal normally has filthy corridors, cramped wards and patients heaped like cattle. But Dr Azim believed that this could change. The former IAS officer set up Glocal, which has...
10:28 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Too Big To Lead The media speculation around L&T supremo AM Naik's succession reached a feverish pitch last year. Yet no one had much of a clue on how L&T could possibly find a replacement to lead the engineering and infrastructure behemoth. It's another matter that by then, the L&T board had figured out a solution. We were the first to tell you about how they decided to deal with...
10:49 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Shimla: Infant mortality rate has declined from 45 to 40 per thousand in Himachal as per the report of the Sample Registration Survey (RS) conducted by the Health Ministry, state Health Minister Rajiv Bindal said on Saturday. The Infant Mortality rate (IMR) was stagnating at 45 for some years but the government succeeded in breaking this barrier by adopting new policies and launching new initiatives, he said. The report released...
08:36 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Jaipur: The public healthcare crisis in Rajasthan on Friday worsened after 5000 striking doctors decided to put in the resignations crippling the system in the state. The resignations came after over 200 striking doctors were arrested by the Rajasthan government. At least 10 patients have lost their lives in Rajasthan due to lack of timely treatment so far. The doctors have gone on strike demanding pay parity with those at...
08:33 PM, Dec 23, 2011
New Delhi: India and Britain on Monday signed an agreement to cooperate in research and development for providing affordable healthcare to people in India, said an official statement. "The objective of the joint venture is to support translational and innovative research projects leading to development of safe and effective healthcare products," the statement said. The unique features of the scheme include access to networks of international experts and overseas scientists,...
09:02 PM, Nov 14, 2011
West Bengal Director of Medical Education, however, said the Govt is trying to improve basic health infrastructure. ...
07:57 PM, Oct 29, 2011
V Raja Age: 54 Designation: President & CEO, GE Healthcare India Education: B Com (Honours), chartered accountant and company secretary Career: Spent over 31 years in consumer products, food and healthcare industries; 14 years at GE Interests: Reading fiction, solving math puzzles, watching TV Q:Why are you leaving? Did GE decide to have a change in leadership or did you want to move on? V Raja: Its a valid question...
11:30 AM, Oct 24, 2011
