Despite infectious diseases claiming over 20 million lives a year, India has just a handful of specialists in the field for its 1.2 billion population, says an Indian American expert pushing for this country to set up a
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to instruct JIPMER in Puducherry to withdraw the user charges it levies for various medical investigations. She said the move is against the
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the government is proposing a new National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) to focus on the health challenges of people in towns and cities while it would continue the National Rural Health Mission