Operational guidelines launched for integration of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with NPCDCS
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Last Updated: Feb 22, 2021, 04:42 PM IST
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Synopsis Over the last two decades global burden of NASH has more than doubled. Globally, NASH caused 40 lakh prevalent cases of compensated cirrhosis in 1990, which increased to 94 lakh cases in 2017. NAFLD is emerging as an important cause of liver disease in India, Vardhan was quoted as saying in a Health Ministry statement.
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Researchers have found NAFLD in 40 to 80 per cent of people who have type 2 diabetes and in 30 to 90 per cent of people who are obese, he said.
Underscoring the importance of tackling NAFLD (Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease) as a step to deal with the country s burden of non-communicable diseases, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday launched the operational guidelines for Integration of NAFLD with NPCDCS (National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disea
Madhya Pradesh govt makes thermal screening mandatory for people arriving from Maharashtra
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Madhya Pradesh government on Monday issued an order to make thermal screening mandatory for people coming from Maharashtra, owing to the surge in novel coronavirus cases in that state.
In accordance with the order, the state government asked collectors of Bhopal, Indore, Hoshangabad, Betul, Siwni, Chhindwara, Balaghat, Barwani, Khandwa, Khargone, Burhanpur, Alirajpur and districts bordering Maharashtra to convene a meeting of district crisis management committees over Covid-19.
WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said many countries around the world are waiting for the distribution to happen as they have been watching vaccination programmes beginning and scaling in high-income countries
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New Delhi, Feb 22 (efe-epa).- A body of some 350,000 doctors in India on Monday sought a government response over a controversial yoga guru’s “blatant lie” that the World Health Organization had certified a traditional medicine that he claims to be effective in treating Covid-19.
Billionaire yogi Baba Ramdev, the co-founder of medicine-and-consumer-goods company Patanjali Ayurved, made the claim on Friday in the presence of federal Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.
“Indian Medical Association (IMA) is shocked to note the blatant lie of WHO certification for a secret medicine launched by an entrepreneur in the presence of the health minister,” the medical body said in a statement.