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Vision Food Security and Safety to Stability

Vision Food Security and Safety to Stability Food safety and security one of the biggest problems grappling low-income groups in India today. And ensuing the recently concluded World Food Safety day, it becomes more imperative than ever before to focus on “unfulfilled” hunger while reflecting on measures to bridge the gaping hole in the system so that we can indeed boast of India’s march on the path of development. While it may seem like an insurmountable challenge, I firmly believe that with concerted efforts and a focus on food safety, we can pave the way for a brighter future where no incident of hunger goes untreated and no soul goes hungry! In a country as diverse as India, where a

Strengthening Basic Health Facilities to Medical Research

Learning from past trends, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will pave the way towards resilient strategies and robust outcomes. CSR played a crucial role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses are helping make the basic health and research to ensure the country can meet such challenges in future. Preventive healthcare is an important dimension of health– SDG 3, that needs significant attention and investment from all sections of society. It is a national health priority and a notified area under Schedule VII of the CSR Section 135 of the Companies Act. Preventive healthcare directly improves the health, well-being, and productivity of the community/population, families, and individuals and promotes equity by benefiting the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups. It covers a range of

Advanced Endoscopy Services for a better quality of life

Mumbai: With an aim to create meaningful interactions with people of the society, and help improve their quality of life, Zen Multispecialty Hospital is pioneering social initiatives in association with ICICI Foundation. This initiative will help needy people to undergo advanced endoscopic tests at discounted rates. Esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy, colonoscopy, and endoscopic ultrasound are some of the procedures that will be offered through this initiative for the next 2yrs. Corporate social responsibility (CRS) initiatives are the need of the community, with health remaining of prime focus and importance. Being socially responsible is the motto to help in the upliftment of others. Now, Zen Multispecialty Hospital has come forward, striving for society, and taking limitless efforts to bring quality healthcare within the reach

Ambuja Neotia Group and ICICI Lombard jointly open a 58 bed COVID Care Centre in New Town, Kolkata

New Town, Kolkata, May 28, 2021:Ambuja Neotia & ICICI Lombard jointly announce the opening of ‘Vinod Neotia Covid Care Centre’ — a 58-bed first-line COVID care facility in New Town. Located adjacent to Bhagirathi Neotia Woman and Child Care Centre, New Town, this facility is set to start operations from today. ICICI Lombard, has provided the medical equipment to the Covid Care centre, which comprises 48 oxygen-aided beds for mild or moderately affected Covid-19 patients and 10 High dependency unit (HDU) beds. The centre will provide nursing assistance and lab support 24×7, HDU beds for treating critical as well as mild Covid cases requiring hospitalization. It will have specialist consultants on call, and provide Phone Triaging (interactive process between the nurse and the

Ashok Soota launches SKAN Medical research trust for Ageing and Neurological disorders

India, April 4, 2021: Ashok Soota today announced the creation of SKAN, probably India’s first not-for-profit entity in the private sector, exclusively for medical research. The research for the projects will be done through reputed partners, and directly in-house. The strategic partner for Neurological research is the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at Indian Institute Science, Bangalore (IISc). CBR is putting together a consortium to handle the first project on Parkinson’s disease. The strategic partner for Ageing is the upcoming St. John’s Geriatric Centre (SJGC), to be located on the St John’s Hospital campus. Soota has agreed to fund the setting up of the Centre for Research in Ageing and Geriatrics (CRAG) at the SJGC and to support joint projects.

India’s road to mass vaccination against Covid-19

The wait for Covid-19 vaccine is over. The vaccination programme to protect people from the coronavirus has rolled out to combat the pandemic, which has killed more than 1.73 million people globally and infected 78 million people since late December last year. The first human cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, were reported by officials in Wuhan City in China, in December 2019. The UK became the first country in the world to start administrating its citizens with Covid-19 vaccine which was soon followed by several other nations. The US and Canada began inoculations with the vaccine developed by Germany’s BioNTech and American drug-maker Pfizer. Confronting its worst health care crisis in a century, doctors, nurses

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NALCO dedicates Ultra-Modern Eye Care Centre

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan lauds NALCO as an efficient company. Bhubaneshwar: NALCO, in association with LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), dedicated a state-of-the-art Secondary Plus Eye Care Hospital that will benefit more than 60,000 outpatients, perform 6,000 surgeries annually and offer free of cost treatment to poor patients at Angul. The ultra-modern hospital, which has been built at a cost of `25 crore, was inaugurated by Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, in the august presence of Rudra Narayan Pani, former MP & Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand, CMD, NALCO. The Eye Care Hospital will provide free eye care services to residents of periphery villages of S&P Complex and

TOWARDS A SWACCHH INDIA

The Swachh Bharat Mission which was launched on October 2, 2014, aims at making the country free from open defecation and achieving 100 per cent scientific management of municipal solid waste in 4,041 statutory towns in the country. Objectives of the mission Elimination of open defecation Eradication of manual scavenging Modern and scientific municipal solid waste management To effect behavioural change regarding healthy sanitation practices Generate awareness about sanitation and its linkage with public health Capacity augmentation for urban local bodies To create an enabling environment for private sector participation in Capex (capital expenditure) and Opex (operation and maintenance) Components of the Mission Household toilets, including conversion of insanitary latrines into pour-flush latrines Community toilets Public toilets Solid waste management

LEADING THE NATION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Development of Social Sciences in the world was plagued by three factors: (i) the unresolved dichotomy in western and eastern thinking about human nature, culture and society emerging from varying world-views; (ii) the assumed supremacy of western social sciences over the eastern texts; and (iii) the assumed supremacy of physical science knowledge when compared to the social sciences. In India, as elsewhere, Social Science education was considered less important than education in physical science and technology. For instance, national ranking systems even now does not include books published by reputed houses in the criteria for assessment for excellence (comparable to patents in physical sciences). Since the knowledge in Social Sciences grows through analytical texts, to rule out published books as

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