Tag: Healthcare
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Giving merit its due
Nursing as a profession demands a delicate balance between the head (intelligence) and the heart (emotions). All nurses, irrespective of their role, do this balancing act in their day-to-day work to offer a positive healthcare experience to patients and help create a healthier and happier world. Healthcare administration, education and research, home health care, palliative …
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May 11, 2017 -
Govt to increase spending on healthcare to 2.5% of GDP: Nadda
Union minister J P Nadda on Saturday said the government is striving hard to offer affordable and quality healthcare services to all and committed to raise the spending on healthcare to 2.5 per cent of the GDP in a phased manner. "The mission of the ministry of health and family welfare is to reform and …
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May 6, 2017 -
Home healthcare services firm Medwell raises $21 mn
Nightingales Home Healthcare Services provider Medwell Ventures Ltd on Wednesday announced raising $21 million (Rs 1,362 crore) in second round (Series B) funding from Mahindra Partners, Eight Roads Ventures, US-based F-Prime Capital Partners, early angel investors and founders. Medwell raised $10 million (Rs 65 crore) in the first round (Series A) in May 2015 to …
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April 5, 2017 -
Education, healthcare to be out of GST
Education, healthcare and pilgrimages will continue to be out of service tax net even under the GST regime as the Centre is against giving any shock in the first year of the rollout by bringing in new services. Besides making a strong case to the GST Council for not touching services that are out of …
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April 2, 2017 -
Boosting employability skills
Healthcare is among the fastest growing sectors of Indian economy today. It comprises hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, medical tourism, health insurance and equipment. The factors that have contributed to the growth include government policies, tax benefits, health awareness, rising incomes, lifestyle diseases, medical tourism, and increasing access to insurance. According to the …
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February 23, 2017 -
Boosting employability skills
Healthcare is among the fastest growing sectors of Indian economy today. It comprises hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, medical tourism, health insurance and equipment. The factors that have contributed to the growth include government policies, tax benefits, health awareness, rising incomes, lifestyle diseases, medical tourism, and increasing access to insurance. According to the …
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February 23, 2017 -
Amartya Sen rues lack of good healthcare in India
Although India has made great progress on the economic front, our progress in healthcare has so far been extraordinarily limited, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said at an international conference here on Saturday. "It is disconcerting to note that despite being the world's largest democracy, we are far from achieving reasonably good standards of healthcare delivery in …
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January 28, 2017 -
Indian pharma cos in tight spot as Trump hardens healthcare stance
Nearly 70 per cent of all listed pharma companies lost between 2.5-7.4 per cent on Thursday as investors took fright from a statement made by US President-elect Donald Trump wherein he accused drug makers of higher prices in the world's largest market for prescription medicines. As many as 87 export oriented pharma companies out of 126 lost …
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January 12, 2017