In a reply to a question by parliamentarian Ashok Chavan in the Rajya Sabha, the government said that the annual requirement of blood in the country is 14.6 million units, and a total of 14,601,147 ...

Jharkhand’s blood banks scarcely organise blood donation camps, lack manpower and adequate testing facilities, records have ...

Pune: One in four water samples collected from India’s household tap connections did not meet microbiological standards, according to a 2024 assessment of the Jal Jeevan Mission. While 76% of samples ...

India has about 2.5 million people living with cancer and around 100 million people with rare diseases, many of whom require medicines that fall outside insurance coverage and price control ...

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi: Santosh Kumar, 44, rides his bicycle slowly, his swollen leg dragging awkwardly behind him with each turn of the pedal. A mason from Har Singh Dev ka Purwa in ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: India is known as the ‘Pharmacy of the World’ for being the largest global supplier of generic medicines and affordable drugs. Yet, policy gaps compel India’s poor to struggle to ...

Visakhapatnam: Every summer, millions of Indians in informal work lose income they cannot afford to lose. They work slower in extreme heat, take unpaid sick days, or stop work entirely when ...

New Delhi: India’s social sector budget as a share of the gross domestic product is now second lowest in over a decade, and lower even than 2014-15, when the Narendra Modi government presented its ...

Mumbai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced a Rs 1.06 lakh crore health budget for 2026-27, a 9% increase from the current financial year. Yet persistent gaps in utilisation, staffing ...