The Latest Breaking News from Health Department

A 50-year-old government survey on drug use may be in jeopardy

Leaders in Health Department were asked to rank their employees in probationary periods, as federal government agencies brace for layoffs.

57,84,443 children in Tamil Nadu targeted for oral polio immunisation, with involvement from UNICEF, WHO, and NGOs.

Fresh probe into alleged irregularities in organ harvesting and transplant on foreign nationals in Chennai hospitals.

The district administration and Health Department are ready to tackle the COVID-19 variant JN.1 in Yadgir district. The district had faced oxygen shortage during the second wave last year. Therefore, the administration has asked the department to ensure oxygen, beds and other necessary arrangements after reports of the virus spreading came…

The misconceptions about HIV and AIDS, anxiety, fear of exclusion and social taboo that were rampant during the 1980s had slowly been erased from society following extensive awareness programmes conducted by Health Department and various organisations, Senior Civil Judge and Member Secretary of District Legal Services Authority Parashuram Doddamani has…

Digital transformation award for Kerala health department’s scheme

The Food Safety wing conducted widespread checks across the State, focussing on food outlets selling shawarma, to check if the norms issued by the department regarding the safe preparation of shawarma were being followed.

Dr. K. Venugopal, chief consultant in respiratory medicine at General Hospital, Alappuzha and Health department chief consultant (Additional Director), has been conferred with the Honorary Professor of IMA-Academy of Medical Specialities Award instituted by the Indian Medical Association.