In light of the rising number of infections in recent days, a major meeting of the DDMA on Wednesday is expected to discuss mandatory usage of face masks and a hybrid form of offline and online instruction for schoolchildren, according

Dr. VG Somani, Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), claimed that India is on track to become a “global hub for medicines,” claiming that there has been a fourfold increase in applications for investigational new drugs in the country. “We

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised people’s determination in the fight against Covid on Tuesday, saying that whether it’s the world’s largest free vaccination campaign or medical infrastructure development, India is setting new health benchmarks. Modi posted a graphic on Twitter

The Healthy Indian Project’s information media division, THIP Media, has announced the launch of a WhatsApp health information and fact-checking chatbot. Ask RAKSHA is the name of the chatbot. RAKSHA stands for Readily Accessible Knowledge and Support for Health Action.

Siemens Healthineers has announced that its manufacturing facility in India will be expanded. The company has launched a new production line (plant) for computed tomography scanners at its Bengaluru facility in order to accelerate the growth of the medical devices

Since the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 medicines and instruments have been sold at a GST rate of 5%, while other medicines have been sold at a GST rate of between 5% and 12%, according to Union Minister of State

After a sharp drop in the number of active cases and deaths from COVID-19 in recent days, Maharashtra, India’s richest state and home to the country’s financial capital Mumbai, will make wearing masks optional starting April 2. Masks had previously

Mansukh Mandaviya, the Minister for Health and Family Welfare, said on Tuesday that other nations around the world regard India as a leader in the health sector since “we managed the Covid-19 outbreak so well under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged health-care start-ups, particularly those in the Ayush sector, to make their content available online in all UN-recognized languages, rather than simply English. In today’s broadcast of ‘Mann ki Baat,’ the Prime Minister stated

The national telemedicine initiative eSanjeevani, administered by the Union Ministry of Health, has crossed three crore teleconsultations and set a new record by passing 1.7 lakh consultations in a single day. The eSanjeevani AB-HWC portal, which is a doctor-to-doctor telemedicine