Centre plans childhood cancer registry as India battles 75,000 new cases a year

“One of the key priorities in childhood cancer care is early detection. Setting up a registry for childhood cancer and declaring it a notifiable disease is an issue. We are still working with ICMR on this. The aim is not to miss any patient,” said Leimapokpam Swasticharan, Deputy Director General, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), on Thursday.

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India tightens Ebola surveillance at airports, issues advisory for travellers

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), has asked travellers coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan to immediately report to airport health officers if they experience symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, weakness, headache, sore throat, muscle pain or unexplained bleeding.

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Health survey factsheets ready for a year but not made public

Though the preparations for NFHS-6 began in mid-2022, it was officially launched nationwide in Dec 2023. The survey was done in two phases over a year.

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Ayushman Bharat strengthening India's national digital health ecosystem: Nadda

Emphasising India's efforts towards pandemic preparedness, Nadda stated that the Government is continuously strengthening healthcare infrastructure and emergency response capacities to effectively address future public health challenges.

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Centre issues Public Health advisory on Heatwave

According to the advisory, infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly, outdoor workers and people suffering from chronic illnesses such as heart disease and hypertension are particularly vulnerable during heatwave conditions and require special care and monitoring.

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India steps up ebola surveillance after WHO emergency declaration

Senior officials of the Union health ministry, including teams from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), ICMR and other concerned divisions, met on Monday to review the evolving situation and initiate precautionary public health measures, officials said.

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COVID-19 death toll nearly three times higher than official count: WHO

22.1 million excess deaths recorded globally between 2020 and 2023 nearly three times higher than the seven million COVID deaths officially reported worldwide, according to the World Health Statistics 2026 report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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