Page 19 - Health Sector

Creative education, health to play big role for future economies: Basu

Speaking at eighth Pravin Visaria Memorial Public Lecture, Basu stated that for countries like India to emerge as a winner going forward, focusing on creative education and health sectors will be key

Promoters have no intention to exit business: Metropolis Healthcare

Promoters are focused on strengthening the Metropolis brand, although it continuously keeps exploring various strategic options/investment opportunities

G7 is united but not effective enough to tackle world's biggest problems

As G7 involves some of the largest economies in the world, there is greater acknowledgment that the glaring differences in economic security have spilled over to impact health security

Use Covid learning to boost global health: Adar Poonawalla to world leaders

Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla on Monday said he is appealing to multilateral organisations and world leaders to come up with a draft about learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen health systems globally. The learnings from the global pandemic would help in addressing inequity in the health systems that are prevalent currently, Poonawalla said. "This year @Davos, I am appealing to multilateral organisations & world leaders to come together in creating a draft, learning from the lessons of the pandemic for a Global Pandemic Treaty to address inequity & strengthen global health systems," he tweeted. Pune-based SII is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by the number of doses produced and sold globally. During the pandemic, the company not only supplied COVID-19 vaccines in India but also exported these to multiple nations.

Last-mile citizen priority for delivery of health services: Mandaviya

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday that the citizen in the last mile should be the priority for delivery of health services.

UP set to transform health sector in 2 years under Adityanath govt

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has chalked out a time-bound strategy to transform health sector in the state.

Centre urges states to take action on heat wave-related illnesses

In a communication to all chief secretaries of states and UTs, Union Health secy Rajesh Bhushan has sought daily surveillance reports on illnesses shared with NCDC

Eyeing over 15% market share in US for insulin Glargine: Shreehas Tambe

The geopolitical incidents of the recent past as well as the pandemic have not really helped cost pressure: Tambe

Modi govt has focused on health sector with holistic approach: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that the health sector saw incremental work in the first 70 years after Independence

India to be Herbalife Nutrition's largest market globally: CEO

The company's biggest market is the United States where its business started and it has become a much more mature market with penetration across the country

Cloudnine aims to raise Rs 1,200 crore, add 7 hospitals every year

Cloudnine's revenues increased at a CAGR of 15.16 per cent from Rs 418 crore in FY19 to Rs 554 crore in FY21, while its Ebitda increased at a CAGR of 55.8 per cent

Port your insurance policy to cover home care, consumables: Experts

Around 54 per cent customers in tier 1 cities, 18 per cent in tier 2 cities, and 28 per cent in tier 3 cities ported to a higher health cover

eHealth sector to reach $40 billion GMV by 2030, says RedSeer report

Pandemic worked as a catalyst to trigger growth within this sector, paving the way for a booming eHealth landscape that grew at 51% CAGR in 2021

An ingredient pandemic has added to snacking: Health

About 94 per cent of Indians are now worried about their family's health and are investing in wellness

Hinduja group's UK firm bags health agency contract worth GBP 211 mn

HGS UK will provide customer support to UK citizens for two years, with an option to extend the contract

Govt asks states to review, amend additional Covid-19 restrictions

The average daily cases during last week were 50,476, and 27,409 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours; the daily case positivity rate declined to 3.63 per cent on Wednesday

Budget 2022: Can the finance minister solve India's health challenges?

History shows that the country can achieve ambitious targets in health

Greater political commitment to health care now: K Srinath Reddy

'We've had enough warnings as our health sector has been challenged in many ways during the different waves of the Covid-19 pandemic', said Reddy

Budget wishlist: Here are the key challenges in health care sector

Health care-focused REITs needs to be encouraged to finance infrastructure

2nd Covid wave, Omicron emergence kept Maha health sector on edge in 2021

Maharashtra's health sector came under severe strain in 2021, as it faced the onslaught of the ferocious second wave of COVID-19 led by the Delta variant