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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - October 2019

Oct 2019

Oct 21, 2019

Dr Vardhan Shares India's Vision For Inclusive Health At G20 Okayama Health Ministers Meet

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan attended the G20 Okayama Health Ministers' Meeting on October 19-20, 2019 held under the Presidency of Japan in Okayama City, Japan.
The deliberations of the G 20 Health Ministers focused on four major global health issues, like achievement of universal health coverage, response to population aging, management of health risks and health security management including anti-microbial resistance and its containment.
The Union Health Minister made specific interventions on all of them.
Intervening on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Prime Minister's vision of 'Sab Ka Saath; Sab Ka Vikas; Sab Ka Vishwas' for inclusive health was highlighted along with Ayushman Bharat, FIT India Movement and Eat Right Campaign.
The Minister confided that India is on the path to UHC and will contribute effectively in sustaining UHC at the global level.
On "Response to Population Aging" Dr Vardhan, during his intervention, shared India's vision for its projected 20 per cent elderly population by 2050.

Oct 20, 2019

1st Joint Committee Meeting Under 2nd Memorandum Of Cooperation Signed On Healthcare In Tokyo

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare co-chaired the 1st Joint Committee Meeting (JCM) in Tokyo along with Dr. Hiroto Izumi, Special Advisor to Prime Minister under the 2nd Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) signed on Healthcare and Wellness in October 2018 during the visit of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to Japan in context of Ayushman Bharat of India and Asia Health and Well-Being Initiative (AHWIN) of Japan.
The Joint Committee reviewed the status of ongoing activities under the MOC and noted with satisfaction the progress on these activities which are meant to promote mutual benefit for the peoples of both the countries.

Arvind Kejriwal Inaugurates 100 More Mohalla Clinics In Delhi

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated 100 more Mohalla Clinics in the national capital. These new health clinics, a total of 302 Mohalla Clinics are now functional in the city. These clinics are part of the city government's push to set up 1,000 neighbourhood clinics in the national capital.
100 more such clinics were ready and would become operational. In such clinics, facilities of diagnostic tests such as lipid profile, kidney and liver function test are available free of cost.
New Mohalla clinics would provide healthcare facilities to over 36 lakh patients every year.

Oct 19, 2019

Rajnath Singh Approves Admission Of Girl Students In Sainik Schools

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given approval for admission of girls in Sainik schools from the 2021-22 academic session.
Singh also directed the officials concerned to ensure availability of necessary infrastructure and sufficient female staff in those educational institutes.
The decision was taken following the success of a pilot project started by the Defence Ministry for admission of girls in Sainik School Chhingchhip in Mizoram.
The decision is in line with the objective of the government towards greater inclusiveness, gender equality, enabling greater participation of women in armed forces and strengthening the motto of 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao', propagated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Govt To Bring All Medical Devices Under Drugs And Cosmetics Act For Quality Check

To ensure that all medical devices meet certain standards of quality and efficacy, the Union Health Ministry has proposed to "notify" all such equipment used on human beings or animals as "drugs" so as to regulate them under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
Once notified, the manufacture, import and sale of all medical devices will need to be certified by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO).
At present, only 23 medical devices are regulated under the law.
The country's highest advisory body on technical issues related to drugs and medical devices , the Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB), had in April 2019 recommended that all medical devices should be notified as drugs under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.

Oct 18, 2019

Young Women From Tribal Areas To Receive Digital Skills Training

Minister of Tribal Affairs, Arjun Munda announced the second phase of GOAL (Going Online as Leaders), a Facebook program aimed at inspiring, guiding and encouraging tribal girls from across India to become village-level digital young leaders for their communities.
In the second phase of the program, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Facebook will digitally mentor 5000 young women in India's tribal-dominated districts, together.
Participants from the states of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Maharashtra, who are enrolled in the current program were also present at the event.
The program will include weekly one-to-one mentoring sessions, focused on a range of skills such as digital literacy, entrepreneurship, and online safety.
In total, more than 2,00,000 hours of guidance will be provided using the Facebook family of apps including WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Following the program, the participants will graduate to the GOAL alumni and will continue to receive support and guidance from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Facebook.

Oct 17, 2019

IIIT Hyderabad inks MoU with EBTC To Establish 'Living Lab' Project On Campus

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderbad, signed a memorandum of understanding with European Business & Technology Centre (EBTC) for establishing a 'Living Lab' on the institute's campus to help startups gather real-time data on urban infrastructure. Loganathan said that the Living Lab will help startups planning to develop 'Smart Cities' products, and those on sustainable urban development.
The institute is planning to set up the 'living lab' in the campus by the end of 2020, after which it will start considering startups that can test their products in the campus.

Malnutrition Behind 69% Deaths Among Children Below 5 In India: UNICEF report

Malnutrition caused 69% of deaths of children below the age of five in India, according to a UNICEF report released.
In its report, The State of the World's Children 2019, UNICEF said that every second child in that age group is affected by some form of malnutrition.
This includes stunting (35%), wasting (17%) and overweight (%). Only 42% of children (in the age group of 6 to 23 months) are fed at adequate frequency and 21% get adequately diverse diet.
Timely complementary feeding is initiated for only 53% of infants aged 6-8 months.

India Bags Top Spot In Child Wasting Rate: Global Hunger Index

India bagged the top spot in child wasting rate in the world with an increase of 4.3 percentage points in nine years, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) released on October 15, 2019.
Around 90 per cent of children aged between 6 and 23 months in the country don't even get minimum required food.
India ranked 102 on the index among 117 qualifying countries with a score of 30.3. Even North Korea, Niger, Pakistan, Cameroon fared better than India. Neighboring countries too bagged better spots — Sri Lanka (66), Nepal (73), Pakistan (94) and Bangladesh (88).
The rank is significant because the country seems to have regressed from its 95th rank in 2010 and stands way below its neighbours and BRICS' peers.
Among BRICS countries, Brazil stood at 18, Russia at 22, China at 25 and South Africa at 60. China is now in the low severity category, while Sri Lanka is within the moderate severity level. Even North Korea was at 92nd.

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