As millions of Sudanese return to areas of the capital region damaged by years of war, health workers are facing another serious challenge a rise in malaria cases. At Omdurman Teaching Hospital, doctors say malaria patients are taking up a large share of the emergency department’s be...
INPR: Hyderabad: The Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) has successfully performed cardiac surgeries on 19 children suffering from congenital heart diseases during a special Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Camp held from September 6 to 12. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy congratulated th...
Telangana has earned national recognition for its deceased organ donation programme, but a disturbing gap between organ donations and the number of patients needing transplants continues to cost lives. Data from the state run Jeevandan programme, covering 2013 to 2026, shows that 19,386 pa...
The Telangana government has brought the Food Safety Department and Drugs Control Department under a unified administrative structure called the Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE), in a move aimed at strengthening regulation, surveillance and enforcement r...
London: More than 200 deaths have been reported to UK medicines regulators following suspected adverse reactions involving popular weight loss injections, alongside more than 158,000 reports of suspected side effects, according to the latest safety monitoring data. The reports involve wide...
The Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST), functioning under the Commissioner’s Task Force, conducted a special enforcement drive across Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts to crack down on food adulteration and ensure compliance with food safety regulations. The ope...
Hyderabad: Telangana Health Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha on Monday launched the statewide distribution of Albendazole tablets to nearly 96.82 lakh children and adolescents aged between 1 and 19 years as part of the National Deworming Programme. The programme was inaugurated at the Raj Bha...
Telangana has recorded the highest mortality rate from chronic kidney disease (CKD) in India, according to a recent study published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR). The study found that 19.84 people per lakh population died due to kidney disease in Telangana in 2023, the h...
Health authorities in Telangana have intensified surveillance after a passenger arriving from Sudan was identified as having a possible Ebola related travel or medical history during routine screening at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA). The passenger was detecte...
Health authorities in Bengaluru have issued a precautionary alert after a suspected case of Ebola virus disease was reported in the city, prompting emergency monitoring and containment measures. According to officials, the patient recently travelled from an African country where Ebola case...
