Health

PUNE: As many as 99 people succumbed to the H1N1 influenza in the state against 1,174 positive cases since April. The mortality rate vis-?-vis fresh cases has been very high in Pune district as 53 people fell victim to the virus with 463 positive cases. Whereas Mumbai recorded 17 deaths against 436 positive cases during the same period.

Raipur: A mysterious disease has claimed at least a dozen lives and affected more than 150 people in a remote Chhattisgarh village, a health official said on Monday.

'I can confirm at least 12 deaths and more than 150 have been taken ill after a diarrhoea-like disease broke out in Dharmpur village in Bijapur district close to the Andhra Pradesh border,' a source here in the directorate of health services said.

The village is over 500 km south of state capital Raipur.

Raipur, March 9 (IANS) As many as 20 girl students suffered a sun stroke and fell unconscious Tuesday at a government school near Chhattisgarh’s capital city, officials said. They have been hospitalised.
The incident took place at a school in Urkura village on the outskirts of state capital Raipur.

Three more people have died of influenza A (H1N1) in Maharashtra, taking the death toll due to the swine flu pandemic in India so far to 1305, an official statement said here today.

One of the deaths was reported during the day, while reports about two earlier deaths were conveyed by the State health authorities to the centre today.

Vedanta Group has shortlisted Siemens (NYSE:SI) , Philips, GE (NYSE:GE) , Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) and Kirloskar Technologies for procuring equipment for its world-class cancer hospital and research centre being set up at the cost of Rs 350 crore at Naya Raipur in Chhattisgarh.

As a series of health scams, all of which took place during the BJP’s previous regime, are out in the open, the Raman Singh government in Chhattisgarh is acting tough, cracking down on senior officials of the health department, fictitious firms and suppliers allegedly involved in the scandals.

Seven more deaths caused by influenza A (H1N1) have been reported from India, taking the toll due to the swine flu pandemic in the country so far to 1184, an official statement said here today.

According to it, three of the deaths - two in Gujarat and one in Maharashtra - were reported during the day today.

Besides, reports of four deaths that occurred earlier - two in Rajasthan and one each in Gujarat and Maharashtra - were conveyed by the state authorities concerned to the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare today, it said.

Chhattisgarh government is working on a proposal to seek help from the private medical practitioners to meet the shortage of government doctors in the state.

The state government will consider the proposal to reach an agreement with private doctors to over come the shortage of government doctors in the state, state's health minister Amar Agrawal told the Assembly. "The proposal is in the initial stage and the modalities will be worked out soon to start the practice that will be an alternate arrangement in the places where government doctors are not posted," Agrawal added.

Raipur, Jan 12 (PTI) Five persons have died of swine flu so far in Chhattisgarh, while 45 others tested positive for the disease, the State Assembly was told today.

Speaking on a calling attention motion given by opposition Congress, Health and Family Welfare Minister Amar Agarwal said samples of 514 suspected patients were sent to Delhi for test. Of these, 45 tested positive, he said.
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NEW DELHI: Acknowledging the difference the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has made to the health care system, the third Common Review Mission (CRM) says many States have come up with innovations for attracting and retaining professionals in public service in rural and remote areas.

While most States focus on financial incentives, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan have created a special cadre for whom financial and non-financial incentives are offered.