WHO Releases New Guidelines for Obesity: 5 Diet Tips To Help Maintain Your Weight
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new guidelines on how health experts and professionals can help teenagers and kids identify obesity and deal with it. With the growing menace of obesity and particularly, childhood obesity becoming a global concern, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new guidelines on how health experts and professionals […]
Health ministry to move SC again for permission to fill vacant medical seats
The apex court had declined ministry’s similar request on September 22 because the medical education regulator, Medical Council of India had opposed it. The health ministry will again approach the Supreme Court to hold counselling to fill up over 500 vacant medical seats in super speciality courses across the country The Union health ministry will […]
Retirement age of central government doctors raised to 65 years
The Union cabinet on Wednesday increased the retirement age of central government doctors to 65 years with an aim to meet the shortage of medical staff, especially super-specialists, in the country. The government’s decision will be applicable to all AYUSH and central government doctors and dentists except those in the Central Health Service (CHS), which […]
Indian doctor new WHO deputy director-general
NEW DELHI: Dr Soumya Swaminathan, director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and secretary to the department of health research, has been appointed the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) deputy directorgeneral, programmes, in Geneva. This is the second-highest position at the UN agency. The new WHO leadership team was announced on Tuesday by director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was […]
Shortage of doctors to end by 2022
Dhanbad, Oct 7 (PTI) Union minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey today said there is a shortage of over 6 lakh doctors in the country now but the crisis would end by 2022, as the number of seats in medical colleges has been increased. As per population, the country requires 14 to 16 lakh doctors but at […]
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