Harsh Vardhan releases report on longitudinal ageing study of India ANI | Updated: Jan 06, 2021 23:04 IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI): Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday released the report on Longitudinal Ageing Study of India (LASI) Wave-1.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, LASI is a full-scale national survey of scientific investigation of the health, economic, and social determinants and consequences of population ageing in India. The National Programme for Health Care of Elderly, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has undertaken the LSAI through International Institute for Population Sciences, (IIPS), Mumbai in collaboration with Harvard School of Public Health, University of Southern California, USA, Dte. GHS, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and National Institute on Ageing.
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In line with the central government’s guidelines, data of about 1.25 lakh healthcare workers (government and private) has been compiled by the state government for the first phase of vaccination.
Around 1,100 healthcare workers and district officials across Delhi have been trained so far under the extensive training programme for 3,500 healthcare workers who will be administering Covid vaccine shots once they are made available in the city.
The academic session, it stated, would be inaugurated by Vardhan through video-conference in the presence of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani at a ceremony at Pramukhswami auditorium on Raiya Road. MoS Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey, and state Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel will also attend the ceremony. “The first batch consists of students from all over the country. They have been selected through merit in the all-India combined NEET,” Sinha said.
The state government has allotted land for the AIIMS campus at Para-Pipaliya village on the northern outskirts of Rajkot city. For the time being, the institute will function out of a section of the building of the state-run PDU Medical College.