India Increases Medical Seats to Over 1 Lakh in the Last Decade

06 Jan 2024

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has announced a significant surge in the number of medical seats in India over the past 10 years, reaching a total of 1,08,940 MBBS seats and 70,674 postgraduate seats. The minister, sharing the data on the social media platform 'X', highlighted that...

170 K ‘Ayushman Arogya Mandir’ built in country: Mandaviya

30 Dec 2023

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that a total of 1,70,000 Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs), rechristened as ‘Ayushman Arogya Mandir’, have been created in the country. The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare was speaking after laying the foundation stone...

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya meets WHO Chief ahead of G20 health meeting

17 Aug 2023

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya held a meeting with World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ahead of the G20 Health Ministers' Meeting, which will begin on 17 August at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who arrived in India on 16 August, appreciated the arrangements made after...

Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to hold mega rally in Punjab’s Sangrur

17 Jun 2023

Under the mega 'Jan-sampark' rally launched by the Bharatiya Janata Party across the country on the completion of nine years of the Modi government, Union Health Minister M. Mandaviya is all set to hold a mega rally in Punjab's Sangrur on Saturday. He is to address the rally at Dana...

Mansukh Mandaviya speaks at the G7 Health Ministerial Meeting on Japan’s Health Innovation.

14 May 2023

Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, addressed Today at the G7 Ministerial Meeting on Health Innovation in Nagasaki, Japan. The meeting was held to discuss the priorities, implementation and utilization of health innovations like digital health towards ensuring Universal Health Coverage. The summit was attended...

WHO still gathering information on Uzbekistan Cough syrup deaths

11 Jan 2023

After consuming medicines manufactured by Marion Biotech company Uzbekistan alleged that 18 children died on 22 December. In which WHO is gathering information regarding the incident. "We are in touch with the Uzbek authorities and are still in the process of gathering information and validating these reports." WHO said to...

265 DNB seats granted to J&K govt hospitals in a boost to medical care

08 Nov 2022

The Central government has granted 265 Diplomate of National Board (DNB) postgraduate medical seats to several government hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) and the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare took the initiative to see that multiple postgraduate...