Ensuring the timely availability of medicines, especially antibiotics, and keeping a strict watch on the quality of medicines being disbursed at pharmacies, are among the top recommendations made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its report on the functioning of the Central Government Health Scheme, recently presented in Parliament. The panel, headed by Rajya Sabha member …
Vijayawada: BJP MP G.V.L. Narasimha Rao called for improved facilities at wellness centres under the ambit of the Centre’s health schemes and also for setting up an office of additional director in Visakhapatnam people’s benefit. The MP met Union minister for health and family welfare Mansukh L. Mandaviya on Monday in New Delhi and sought his intervention to address the …
A post is doing rounds on social media that the Narendra Modi government wants to link the Central Government Health Scheme with the Ayushman Bharat Healh Account to provide treatment for the CGHS beneficiaries in government hospitals instead of private hospitals. CGHS provides cashless treatment to central government employees – including retired staffers – at their own centres or empanelled …
An employee's Union has moved the Madras High Court seeking to restrain the Central Government from proceeding further with the process of disinvestment of Air India, until steps are taken to protect the rights of the national carrier's staff. Justice V Parthiban on Friday, granted interim relief and restrained the Civil Aviation Ministry from evicting the members of the Petitioner …
