Aiming to boost local manufacture of essential medicines and attract investments in the pharma sector, the government is set to draw up a plan to build a drug regulatory system which is in line with the best globally and facilitates ease of doing business. The move comes in the wake of rising demand for medicines during the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide amid supply shortages ... Read More »
Interesting Facts to know : By saving a tone of paper, you can save 17 trees, 26000 liters of water, 4000 kilowatt of power supply and 240 liters of fuel.A typical office worker produces 160 kilograms of paper waste, 45% of all the papers is thrown away in the course of the day after the printing.It takes an average of ... Read More »
The Aware Consumer, a platform playing a pioneering role in raising awareness about consumer safety and rights, organized a webinar on ‘Improving Accessibility to Safe and Quality Healthcare’.The virtual dialogue was supported by the Patient Safety and Access Initiative of India Foundation (PSAIIF), and the Consumer Online Foundation.The panel discussions further brought about insights on how the challenge in the ... Read More »
Devidas Chaudhari, a retired sub-district magistrate from Maharashtra, took up the plantation of native trees in 15 acres of land. The efforts inspired 50,000 people to increase green cover in the area While travelling, the barren and dry patches on the outskirts of Kundalgaon village near Manmad always bothered Devidas Chaudhari, a retired government official. So he decided to change ... Read More »
With floods engulfing the entire Hyderabad and more than 75 per cent of population vulnerable to outbreak of seasonal diseases, the Helping Hand Foundation (HHF), an NGO from Hyderabad has come forward to serve the healthcare needs of the people. As part of this, the HHF authorities have recently launched telemedicine helpline and providing door to door delivery of medicines ... Read More »
Do you know that lions only succeed in a quarter of their hunting attempts — which means they fail in 75% of their attempts and succeeds in only 25% of them? Despite this small percentage shared by most predators, they don’t despair in their pursuit and hunting attempts. The main reason for this is not because of hunger as some ... Read More »
Higher exports are likely to help the Indian pharma sector to garner upto eight to nine per cent growth this fiscal. It is expected that the Rs 2.8 lakh crore Indian pharmaceutical sector is set to emerge stronger due to higher exports despite the COVID-19 pandemic this fiscal. A report by CRISIL says that the Indian pharma sector is well-diversified ... Read More »
In Japan, one of the most famous national dailies invented a one hundred percent sustainable newspaper. If you plant it, it will bloom! Japan once more demonstrates to be an advanced country. Its latest invention consists in a newspaper made of recycled and vegetable paper that you can plant after you’ve read it. It is called “Green Newspaper” and was ... Read More »
The biomedical waste disposal has become a big challenge to various private hospitals in Telangana due to rising costs by collecting agencies and reluctance by the sanitary workers to collect biomedical waste from COVID-19 wards. According to D Devanand, chief executive officer (CEO) of a leading corporate hospital in Hyderabad, it is learnt that the biomedical waste collection agencies have ... Read More »
It is a common saying that there is power in numbers, which means that if all of us get together and do our small parts in saving water, we will surely be able to do so collectively. While individual acts of saving water can do little, if all of us waste less water, or more judiciously consume water, it will ... Read More »
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