Operational guidelines launched for integration of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with NPCDCS
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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
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Centre to strengthen public healthcare by increasing Ayushman Bharat centres to 150,000 by 2022: Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan ANI | Updated: Feb 17, 2021 22:07 IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], February 17 (ANI): The Central government plans to bolster the public healthcare system across the country by increasing the number of Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) from the current 60,000 to 150,000 by December 2022, Union Health and Family Welfare Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Wednesday.
Bhushan said his ministry is also creating a new cadre of Community Health Officers (CHOs), which is basically populated by BSc nursing professionals. There are other professionals also who will be manning this cadre to operationalise the HWCs.
Exhorted ICMR-NCDIR to help deliver benefits of their research to common people: Harsh Vardhan ANI | Updated: Jan 25, 2021 21:14 IST
New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday urged the Indian Council of Medical Research - National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (ICMR-NCDIR) to help deliver benefits of their research to the common people.
On the foundation day of ICMR-NCDIR Harsh Vardhan presided over the celebrations and launch of the decadal year institute in Bengaluru through a video conference. He said, On its foundation day, I exhorted the institute to help deliver benefits of their research to the common people.
21 lakh J&K families to get free treatment through Ayushman Bharat health scheme: PM Modi IANS
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday launched the Ayushman Bharat Health Scheme for 21 lakh families of Jammu & Kashmir. Under this scheme, all families in J&K will be able to receive free treatment up to Rs five lakh annually.
The people of J&K will be able to take advantage of the scheme not only in the state but in the whole country.
Launching the scheme through virtual medium, Prime Minister Modi said, “Today the Jammu & Kashmir Ayushman Bharat Health Scheme has been started. It will bring much ease in the lives of the people who will get free treatment up to Rs 5 lakh. Now the benefit of Ayushman Bharat scheme. Till now about 6 lakh families of the state were getting benefit of this scheme. But now all the 21 lakh families will get the same benefit.”
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MYSURU: The National Family Health Survey 2019-20 (NFHS-5) has concluded that child marriage, child stunting, wasting and underweight, increase in anaemia and obesity among woman, poor screening for the oral, breast and cervical cancer are the major problems faced by the southern districts of the state.
The biggest takeaway from the report is that a more sustained health and education awareness drive is required to improve the quality of life of women in these districts. The survey was carried out in this region between July and December, 2019 and the report was released on Tuesday.
According to the report pertaining to the seven south interior districts (Mysuru, Shivamogga, Kodagu, Mandya, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan) major health challenges include dwindling sex ratio in four districts (i.e. Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagalur, Kodagu, and Hassan) among the children less than five years, early marriage of girls before attaining the age of 18, stunted and w