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
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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50% are unhappy with their water
Mumbai: More than 50% of Mumbai's population are not satisfied with the water they are supplied with. This has been revealed in a survey conducted by the Academy of Pharmaceutical, Kalina.
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H1N1 is mutating, turning deadlier
Mumbai: A preliminary study conducted by the state government into the deaths caused by the H1N1 influenza virus has revealed that the pathogen is now affecting patients more virulently and is producing newer reactions in the body. The study has also thrown up a perplexing fact--two-thirds of those suspected to have died of swine flu did not have the virus, despite showing all clinical symptoms.
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Swine flu toll climbs to 92 in Pune
Pune: The swine flu toll in the city rose to 92 after a six month pregnant woman succumbed to the H1N1 infection in a hospital here, health officials said today. According to Dr Ashok Mehta, joint director, health, ten more fresh cases were detected in the city during the last 24 hours and the number of critical patients stood at 21 out of whom eight needed ventilator support.
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Fishing for climate change
Mumbai: The effects of climate change spares none and the worst hit are the poor who have limited resources to adapt to changes in weather patterns.
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Swine Flu claims its 91st victim in Pune
Pune: With the death of a 30-year-old woman, the Swine Flu toll in the city has gone up to 91, health officials said today. The swine flu pandemic
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Parsi body plans vulture breeding to help death rites
Mumbai: The Parsi community of the city -- who leave their dead out in the open to be consumed by vultures and were facing problems with disposing their dead with the dwindling number of vultures in the city -- are hoping to resolve the problem with an aviary to rear vultures.
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New pollutant in Mumbai's air
Mumbai: Another name has been added to the long list of substances that pollute the air Mumbaikars breathe.
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Public hearing on impact of climate change on UN Day
Mumbai: Homeless people, ragpickers, slum dwellers and people displaced in the city will testify the impact of climate change on their lives and livelihood at a public hearing tomorrow marking United Nations Day.
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Hot grass' to save animals at the Byculla zoo
Linah Baliga / DNA Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to protect the flora and fauna at the Veer Jijamata Udyan (Byculla zoo) using a new technique. This is a part of several measures being taken in the Rs434-crore zoo modernisation plan.
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Coal mining 'impossible' at Tadoba
Ashwin Aghor / DNA Mumbai: The Adani Mines Private Ltd will have to do the "impossible" if it has to go ahead with its proposed coal mining project at Lohara, on the outskirts of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), in Chandrapur district. It will have to "create a similar forest with identical biodiversity" to maintain continuity of the forest corridor stretching to South India.