Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has mentioned that blood tests for directing diabetes would be made compulsory in India, taking the footsteps of "opportunistic screening" norm. The scheme is in its pilot stage in 10 states.
 
"The government has launched a National Programme ...

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has mentioned on Friday that Rs.332.92 crore has been allocated for checking the spread of H1N1/ A viral infection.
 
The first case of swine flu in the country was confirmed in May this year.
 
"The central government has so far spent or ...

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has announced that the contractors who are developing hospitals similar to AIIMS could win Rs. 10 crore, provided the hospitals are completed as early as possible.
 
Government has set the deadline of 2010-2011 for the construction of eight AIIMS-like ...

Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has announced more funds for the control of cancer and the treatment for the poor who are suffering from this medical condition. He also called for deeper studies in this field.
 
Addressing the Annual Breast and Gynaecological Cancer ...

According to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the terrorist strikes have proved that they hamper the foreign investment prospects of India.
 
"Over the years, the terrorist activities have expanded to many new areas across the length and breadth of the country. Analysis of the ...

According to Vice President Hamid Ansari who was addressing an anti-terrorism seminar in New Delhi, terrorism has become trans-national due to globalization and technology.
 
"It is also important to remember that those advocating extremist, fundamentalist and terrorist causes ...

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, in an attempt to shed India’s tag of being ‘diabetes capital of the world’, has made the diabetes and hypertension tests for all the villagers above 35 mandatory.  The test kits have been made easy and affordable.
 
"We have a ...

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad mentioned that the health ministry is currently developing the software which will possess the potential for keeping track of all the immunisation drives happening across India as he is not satisfied with the result of the health campaigns.
 
"The ...

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has called for the utilization of therapeutic cloning for healing and the regeneration of damaged body parts and for the treatment for complicated medical conditions.
 
"Although India remains totally opposed to reproductive cloning owing to the ...

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told on Monday that government will be permitting the private sectors to develop medical colleges in northeast regions, hilly areas and other backward states.
 
"We will allow the private sector to set up medical colleges in backward states, hilly ...

According to Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, about 20 private laboratories all over India have been granted the permission to conduct the tests for confirming swine flu. He emphasized that the spread of H1N1 infection is being controlled and that there is nothing to cause ...

A doctor succumbed to H1N1 viral infection to become the 14th swine flu victim in India. This is the first swine flu death recorded in Nasik in Maharashtra.
 
With the death of a 29-year-old woman in Sassoon hospital early on Wednesday, the death toll in Pune alone has become 7. ...

The Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has told that India is ready to import swine flu or A(H1N1) vaccine from any country , where it is developed first.
 
"Three Indian companies are working to develop the swine flu vaccine. Should any country develop the vaccine first, we will ...

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has plans to develop a low-cost testing kit for testing the A/H1N1 infection. This information was told by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday.
 
Azad who was speaking to the reporters on Monday told that the virus infection, which has ...

India is progressing towards eradication of the disease and the proof is that India has reported just 136 cases of polio so far this year and fewer families are now opposing the immunisation drive.
 
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in a written reply informed the Rajya Sabha that till July ...