Uttar Pradesh Healthcare

In an incident that raises serious questions about the state healthcare system, the doctor at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur left a surgical needle inside an 18-year-old's head after stitching up an injury.

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a status report on the work done for providing healthcare rights and toilet facilities for the third gender.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to prepare Ayushman Bharat cards of those eligible on priority, saying money should not be an obstacle to avail health facilities.

Lauding the PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission launched by the prime minister in Varanasi on Monday, the chief minister said it was a step towards a revamped healthcare infrastructure of the new India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, one of the largest pan-India schemes for strengthening healthcare infrastructure, in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Uttar Pradesh on Monday. According to the Prime Minister's office, at around 10.30 am in Siddharthnagar, PM Modi will inaugurate nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh.

With Uttar Pradesh battling a second Covid wave, the Allahabad High Court on Monday used a famous Hindi saying - "Ram Bharose" (at God's mercy)- as the health infrastructure in villages and small cities was discussed.

Nearly 50 lakh healthcare and frontline workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country till now with over five lakh vaccinations (more than half a million) conducted in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said today.

Becoming among the first lawmakers in India to get inoculated for the COVID-19 infection, BJP leader Mahesh Sharma, the MP from Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar, was vaccinated for the coronavirus on Saturday as a healthcare worker.

Oblivious that an unconscious patient was still lying alone on a bed, staff of a state-run community healthcare centre in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district allegedly shut its gates and left as their duty hours were over.

Lucknow: Over 2,000 doctors will be posted at government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh in the coming days, a step which comes in the backdrop of criticism over poor health facilities in the state which was rocked by child deaths in Gorakhpur. Uttar Pradesh health minister Siddharth Nath Singh on Wednesday said that posts of 7,328 doctors had been lyin...

NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old schoolgirl in Uttar Pradesh has launched a charity to provide oxygen to impoverished patients after more than 60 people, nearly half of them children, died allegedly due to a lack of oxygen at the main government hospital in her home town Gorakhpur. The patients died from encephalitis, a disease which causes brain inflammat...

In tragic mobile footage from Uttar Pradesh, a man weeps as he carries his 15-year-old son's body over his shoulder at a hospital where he was provided neither a stretcher nor an ambulance. Another example that proves that in large parts of India, the story of Dana Majhi - the Odisha man forced to walk 10 km with his wife's body slung over his shou...

By Oommen C Kurian/ IndiaSpend With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of Qatars – which has 2.4 million people, the same as the UP town of Bijnore; per capita gross domestic product (GDP) comparable to Kenyas; and an infant mortality rate that rivals The Gambia, a poverty-ridden, p...

By Sushree Panigrahi and Jeet Singh  Uttar Pradesh: In the last 15 years, the population of India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh increased by more than 25 per cent. However, the public health centres, which are the frontline of the government’s healthcare system, decreased by 8 per cent. Smaller sub-centres, the first point of public cont...

In an incident that raises serious questions about the state healthcare system, the doctor at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur left a surgical needle inside an 18-year-old's head after stitching up an injury.

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a status report on the work done for providing healthcare rights and toilet facilities for the third gender.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to prepare Ayushman Bharat cards of those eligible on priority, saying money should not be an obstacle to avail health facilities.

Lauding the PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission launched by the prime minister in Varanasi on Monday, the chief minister said it was a step towards a revamped healthcare infrastructure of the new India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, one of the largest pan-India schemes for strengthening healthcare infrastructure, in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Uttar Pradesh on Monday. According to the Prime Minister's office, at around 10.30 am in Siddharthnagar, PM Modi will inaugurate nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh.

With Uttar Pradesh battling a second Covid wave, the Allahabad High Court on Monday used a famous Hindi saying - "Ram Bharose" (at God's mercy)- as the health infrastructure in villages and small cities was discussed.

Nearly 50 lakh healthcare and frontline workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country till now with over five lakh vaccinations (more than half a million) conducted in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said today.

Becoming among the first lawmakers in India to get inoculated for the COVID-19 infection, BJP leader Mahesh Sharma, the MP from Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar, was vaccinated for the coronavirus on Saturday as a healthcare worker.

Oblivious that an unconscious patient was still lying alone on a bed, staff of a state-run community healthcare centre in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district allegedly shut its gates and left as their duty hours were over.

Lucknow: Over 2,000 doctors will be posted at government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh in the coming days, a step which comes in the backdrop of criticism over poor health facilities in the state which was rocked by child deaths in Gorakhpur. Uttar Pradesh health minister Siddharth Nath Singh on Wednesday said that posts of 7,328 doctors had been lyin...

NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old schoolgirl in Uttar Pradesh has launched a charity to provide oxygen to impoverished patients after more than 60 people, nearly half of them children, died allegedly due to a lack of oxygen at the main government hospital in her home town Gorakhpur. The patients died from encephalitis, a disease which causes brain inflammat...

In tragic mobile footage from Uttar Pradesh, a man weeps as he carries his 15-year-old son's body over his shoulder at a hospital where he was provided neither a stretcher nor an ambulance. Another example that proves that in large parts of India, the story of Dana Majhi - the Odisha man forced to walk 10 km with his wife's body slung over his shou...

By Oommen C Kurian/ IndiaSpend With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of Qatars – which has 2.4 million people, the same as the UP town of Bijnore; per capita gross domestic product (GDP) comparable to Kenyas; and an infant mortality rate that rivals The Gambia, a poverty-ridden, p...

By Sushree Panigrahi and Jeet Singh  Uttar Pradesh: In the last 15 years, the population of India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh increased by more than 25 per cent. However, the public health centres, which are the frontline of the government’s healthcare system, decreased by 8 per cent. Smaller sub-centres, the first point of public cont...