New Delhi, Aug 3 (PTI) India achieved a record 20,138 organ transplants in a single year in 2025, the highest ever registered in the country, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel said at the 16th Indian Organ Donation Day event on Saturday. Transplants from deceased donors have more than quadrupled …
With West Bengal joining the scheme, Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY now covers every state and Union Territory in India. While the world’s largest government-funded health insurance programme has expanded financial protection and healthcare access, improving service quality and equitable access remains the next priority.
The BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting marked a historic milestone by formally integrating traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine into the bloc’s healthcare agenda, emphasizing scientific validation, AI, research collaboration, and global health equity.
A new WHO report finds that cancer survival increasingly hinges on geography and income, not biology — a pattern India's own case load, insurance gaps and new prevention push all reflect. The new World Health Organisation's first Global Status Report on Cancer 2026 - created with IARC - estimated that 20.6 million cancer cases and …
Here’s what the WRI analysis actually shows. The team reviewed 46 World Bank-financed health projects across low- and middle-income countries and came up with numbers that belong in every health ministry’s budget talks. For a country of 25 million people, putting money into seven areas of climate-health preparedness such as disease surveillance, climate-informed planning, resilient …
The Union Budget 2026 has made a significant statement on mental health by announcing the creation of new national-level mental health and trauma care institutes. The government has recognised that mental health is no longer a marginal issue but a core public health priority that requires strong institutions, trained professionals, and long-term investment. Presenting the …
Particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, health has gradually taken centre stage in India's development rhetoric. Although there has been steady increase in the Union Budget for health in recent years, it is still unclear if this increase will be adequate and strategic enough to provide noticeable health results. Expectations are influenced by …
October 10, 2025 marks the World Mental Health Day and the theme this year - "Access to Services: Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies (Disasters)" highlights an issue that is often pushed to the side. When disasters strike - earthquakes, storms, pandemics, conflicts - the need for mental health services rises. The loss, grief, dislocation, …
