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Chandigarh:
Chandigarh administration has set up a healthcare centre at Rajpur Khurd village to provide healthcare services to the villagers at their doorsteps. The residents will be provided free primary health services which include: registration of pregnancy, prenatal and postnatal checkups along with immunisation, etc.
Immunisation facility for diseases including Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio and Measles will [...]

Chandigarh: In an effort to bring together autonomous medical specialties under a common roof, the Ivy Multi-Specialty Hospital in Mohali unveiled a unique ‘health mall’ today.
Chief Executive Officer of the Ivy Hospital and Cancer Research Institute, Gurtej Singh, said the concept will help the institute upgrade the existing hospitals into full-fledged composites where experts from [...]

Panchkula: Fondness for high life among the rich and influential led the ninth class passed Sandip Sharma to start a hospital in Sector 20 here. He had never anticipated that the long arms of law would finally catch up with him.
Now, incarcerated in a police station, Sharma’s amazing story of fraud could well be similar [...]

Chandigarh: The diagnosis of the rheumatic heart diseases among the children is set to be revolutionised. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Germany-based Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in collaboration with the PGI, is set to create infrastructure for “inexpensive” test for the diagnosis of these diseases among the children.

“In fact, the devising of the test [...]

Chandigarh: India has a high incidence of genetic diseases with nearly 7.8 lakh new cases of congenital malformations every year, Prof I.C. Verma, a doctor from New Delhi, said here today.
Addressing an international conference on medical and community genetics being hosted by the department of haematology, PGI, he said states where the infant mortality rates [...]

Chandigarh: In order to check the mushrooming of sub-standard hospitals and nursing homes in the country and playing with the health of the common consumer, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has now come out with standardisation guidelines for health care facilities.
The standard covers the guidelines on access, assessment and continuity of care, patient rights [...]

Chandigarh: The public-private partnership is the new buzzword at the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), the social security arm of the union ministry of labour covering over 1 crore employees.

Prabhat C. Chaturvedi
In fact, taking this partnership to the new level, the ESIC has decided to throw open its 21 state-of-the-art hospitals in the country to [...]

Chandigarh: India is in the midst of a catastrophic epidemic of smoking deaths, which are expected to cause about one million deaths a year during the 2010s, including one in five of all male deaths and one in 20 of all female deaths at ages 30-69.
On an average, male bidi smokers lose about six years [...]

Chandigarh: After 10 years of path breaking surgery of ‘Takayasu Arthritis’ (Pulseless disease) by Fortis Hospital Cardiology Director Dr HK Bali, the doctor claims to have recreated history by performing a three-hour surgery of complete reconstruction of left carotid artery.
While addressing mediapersons here today, Dr Bali said 17-year old Anu was operated 10 days ago. [...]

Panchkula: The health authorities have planned to immunise 78,193 children between the age group of 0-5 years during the three-day national polio round to commence on February 10 in the district. To achieve the target, a total of 388 booths will be set up at different places along with 28 transit teams and 10 mobile [...]