Telemedicine project proving helpful in rural Himachal
byShimla: Telemedicine project promoted by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) in association with the Health Department has build the telemedicine project keeping in…
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Smile Train comes to Himachal for better smiles
byShimla: After getting 50 patients photographs of cleft surgeries in the department of Plastic Surgery assessed by the IGMC Shimla experts it has joined…
Tall claims of better medical facilities by Himachal Health Minister limited to files only
byPALAMPUR: All is not well in the state health department. Desite tall claims made by the Health Minister Rajiv Bindal that health services in…
Himachal gets 1st ESI Medical College & Hospital
byShimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, alongwith Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Oscar Fernades, laid the foundation stone of Rs….
Himachal To Be Part Of Inter-state Task Force For Containing Female Foeticide – Rajiv Bindal
byShimla: Punjab, Haryana, Uttrakhand and Himachal are to come together to enforce the PNDT Act and form a task force for co-ordinating monitoring of…
“Zindagi Zindabad” Campaign to combat HIV AIDS in Kangra
byKangra: Although the spread of HIV/AIDS is a major concern in India, only 61 percent of women age 15-49 and 84 percent of men…
3308 HIV+ve Cases In Himachal – AIDS Detection On Rise
byShimla: With detection of HIV positive and AIDS cases rising, health officials have spread a network of testing centres in the hill state and…
8 more Himachal Health Institutes declared as FRUs
byShimla: Himachal Pradesh has declared total 51 health institutions as First Referral Units out of which 36 FRUs were declared in the year 2008,…
Goodbye Year 2008!
byBefore we completely forget Year 2008 and start adjusting with new resolutions of the New Year 2009, let’s refresh main happenings which made major…
South Asia’s lone producer of Yellow Fever vaccine in Himachal to resume production
byShimla: Last year in Janaury, the licence for producing vaccines of Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli, was canceled by the Central Government on the…