The Lumpy Skin Disease Origin: The Lumpy Skin Disease was initially found in an outbreak in Zambia in 1929. The Lumpy Skin Disease is caused by the LSD virus (LSDV), a poxvirus of the genus capripoxvirus. The studies indicate that until the 1980’s the virus […]
Public Health need not be led by Doctors Alone For Mains The need to change current system? In India, most of the time, heads of health services at national, whether, state or district levels are orthopaedic or cardiac surgeons or ophthalmologists who have no training […]
‘Teesta Delay Holding Up Hilsa Fish Supply to India’ For Prelims About Teesta River Teesta river is a tributary of the Brahmaputra which originates in the Tso Lhamo Lake near Chunthang, Sikkim and flows to West Bengal before entering Bangladesh and merging with Brahmaputra. Teesta […]
Steps taken for improving maternal and child health in the country The Government has formulated several schemes/ programmes for facilitating check-ups and screening of pregnant women, which are as follows: Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN) provides assured, dignified, respectful and quality healthcare at no cost and […]
World Food Programme (WFP) Context: • Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned. About: • The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ food assistance […]
Addressing the Rising Global Hunger Context: • Given the current situation of a shock of a pandemic, conflicts across borders and migrant crisis all around the world the number of people on the brink of starvation has doubled from 135 million people, pre-COVID, a year […]
World Food Program Context: • Food supply chains in Ukraine were collapsing, with a portion of infrastructure destroyed and many grocery stores and warehouses empty, this was stated by a World Food Program (WFP) official recently. • This is due to the instability in the […]
World Happiness Index Context: • Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored index that ranked Afghanistan as the unhappiest, closely followed by Lebanon. • India has been ranked at 136 even below Pakistan which is […]
An Overlook of Maternal Health In India Context: • Kerala has yet again emerged on top when it comes to maternal and child health recording the lowest Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of 30 (per one lakh live births) in the country. What is the National […]
Agri Nutri Garden Week Context: DAY-NRLM celebrates Agri Nutri Garden Week as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav A total of 76,664 ‘Agri Nutri Gardens’ were established in this week against the target of 7500 DAY-NRLM aims to encourage every poor rural household to create […]