19-20.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   Health minister flags off 65 ambulances State health minister Mangal Pandey flagged off 65 ambulances of the 102 service from the premises of State Health Society, Bihar in Patna. The health department has outsourced the toll-free 102 call centre as well as the operation and management of the fleet of ambulances and mortuary vans to a … Read more

Health policy in Bihar

In the last few years, Bihar has shown improvement on some important family health indicators, driven by cumulative efforts of the national and the state government to strengthen the state public health system’s quality. The latest data released by the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015–2016, shows that the share of women availing institutional … Read more

19.01.18 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR Dial ‘102’ gets 104 ambulances   State health minister Mangal Pandey flagged off 104 new ambulances of the ‘Dial 102’ service from the State Health Society, Bihar(SHSB). The health department has outsourced the call centre and operations of the 102 ambulances.   The consortium has been asked to start the functioning of 100 medium basic … Read more

23.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   Young schoolgoers target of state anti-tobacco drive   Mobile medical teams engaged in conducting routine health check-up of children in government schools and Aanganwadi centres in Bihar under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) will now also create awareness on hazards of consuming tobacco products.   The State Health Society (SHS) said all … Read more

09-12-2017 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   95,000 tuberculosis cases reported in Bihar last year   Additional executive director of State Health Society Sanjay Kumar Singh on expressed concern over lack of tuberculosis test facility at integrated counselling and test centres (ICTCs) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres where HIV patients co-infected with multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB visit.   In 2016, nearly 65,000 TB cases … Read more