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WCD Ministry celebrates World Breastfeeding Week

6:53 pm August 2, 2019

New Delhi: The Union Women and Child Development Ministry is celebrating the World Breastfeeding Week with a focus on “protection, promotion and support” of breastfeeding that it hopes will help in breaking the vicious cycle of malnutrition. The WCD Ministry, in a statement, said this nutrition intervention will also aid the government to achieve the […]

India has one doctor for every 1,457 citizens: Govt

10:30 pm July 4, 2019

New Delhi: In India, there is one doctor for every 1,457 people as per the country’s current population estimate of 1.35 billion, which is lower than the World Health Organisation norm of 1:1000, the government has informed Parliament. A little over 11.57 lakh allopathic doctors are registered with the state medical councils and the Medical […]

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