In a strongly worded warning, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has threatened Punjab that it will cut off funding of nearly ₹676.11 crore for augmenting health infrastructure if the State continued to rebrand centrally funded Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres as ‘Aam Aadmi Clinics’. “It was observed that the facades of AB-HWCs had been turned on their …
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday impleaded the Secretary of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as a respondent in the suo motu public interest writ petition seeking inclusion of 'Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia' as a rare disease under the National Policy for Rare Diseases.The division bench of Chief Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P. Chaly, passed the interim order, …