Registration of healthcare facilities mandatory
These rules aim to make available a database of clinical establishments which are authorised to function and thereby improve public health quality by eliminating quacks The Union Ministry of public
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Drive against pulse polio, malaria to go hand in hand
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to integrate its pulse polio campaign with the drive against malaria. This integrated approach will materialise from November 9 to 15. A working plan has been prepared for the health ambassadors, BMC's health officials, to visit 33 lakh households in the next 15 days. They have been trained at Nair Hospital. click here
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Saving salt pan lands, mangroves is priority
Mumbai: The authorities have woken up to the dangers of climate change and global warming. Efforts are being made to find ways to mitigate their effects. But a lot more has to be done, and fast. The next five years are going to be crucial, experts say. The new forest minister of the state will have to get cracking right from the word go as his tenure is going to be full of challenges.
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Pune flu toll reaches 100
Mohini Santosh Undre, 28, of Manjri in Haveli taluka died at 4.30 am at the Noble Hospital in Hadapsar. Doctors who treated Undre said she had tested positive for H1N1, and was suffering from bilateral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
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Bandra fest to go green this year
The glitterati and the hoi polloi of Bandra will 'go green' this time for the suburb's own festival on November 14. The festival, that's celebrated once in two years, will highlight the need to get environment-friendly and propose a plastic-free Bandra, this time.
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Once again, govt misses forest land deadline
The woes of residents in buildings on private forest lands in and around the city just do not seem to end. The state forest department has failed to keep its promise to submit a full list of such buildings to the Supreme Court by November 1.
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Barc centre to make technology market-friendly
Mumbai: The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) will set up the Barc Centre for Incubation of Technologies (Barcit) for better interaction with the industry and understanding the market needs.
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Monorail will be ready by Dec 2010
Mumbai: If officials of Scomi, a Malaysian infrastructure company, which, along with Larsen & Toubro, is part of the consortium building Mumbai's first monorail, are to be believed, the first leg of the single-track train service will be ready by the end of next year.
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Pune hoping for herd immunity against swine flu
The swine flu pandemic Confronted with an unrelenting spread of the H1N1 virus in the urban, semi-urban and rural areas in and around Pune which claimed its first Swine flu fatality on August 3, the state health authorities are eagerly awaiting the findings of a research undertaken by National Institute of Virology (NIV) here on herd immunity.
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Swine flu toll rises to 96 in Pune
The swine flu pandemic The delayed NIV (National Institute of Virology) test reports confirming the infection were received yesterday, hospital authorities said.
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Water cuts are on: 15% for you, 30% for hotels, malls
Mumbai: The inevitable has happened. Mumbai will have to live with steep water cuts until at least July 15 next year. click here The BMC, which had held the bad news back until the assembly elections were completed, finally announced its post-monsoon water-cut plan on Wednesday.