Page 4 - Health Care Sector

PPE kits effective in preventing Covid-19 among healthcare workers: Report

They said healthcare systems "must give priority to the procurement and distribution of personal protective equipment, and provide adequate training to healthcare professionals in its use."

UP CM Adityanath issues directive to protect armed police from infection

Adityanath also underlined the need for continuous training of the doctors and other medical and health department staff in the state.

India coronavirus dispatch: Why heart surgeries have got scaled back

From informal Indian economy in the time of pandemic, to making cities liveable for migrants, and why Mumbai still struggles to cope with coronavirus - read these and more in today's India dispatch

World coronavirus dispatch: The virus may have become much less lethal

From lengths to which hedge funds would go to protect staff, to why financial hiring gets tougher, and how Wuhan may have eradicated the virus - read these and more in today's world dispatch

India may keep Covid-19 deaths less than 8,000, says public health expert

India should not be seen as one entity when it comes to tackling Covid-19, because the population size across states and districts vary, said Professor G V S Murthy

Covid-19 crisis prompts India to look for global partners in health care

Medical devices industry has potential to attract Rs 70,000 crore in 5 years

Investors look beyond drug makers as rush for Covid treatment hots up

A record 48 per cent of fund managers are overweight healthcare stocks, a Bank of America survey has shown

Ending quarantine for healthcare workers a 'non-scientific approach': AIIMS

Shortening quarantine duration and denying healthcare workers testing on day 5-7 after duty will be a deadly combination, may derail India's battle against pandemic, say AIIMS resident doctors

Notes from the front line on what it's like to deal with Covid-19

Our health care workers who risk their lives to save ours share their experience of dealing with Covid-19

How Covid-19 gave a push to domestic med tech manufacturing industry

From PPEs to ventilators to face shields, manufacturers have invested money to ramp up production and deliver during this crisis

Covid-19 Factoid: With 5-fold jump, all's not well in the state of Gujarat

The world sees the highest single day jump in new cases with more than 100,000 cases in day while in Gujarat cases jump nearly five times in the second phase of lockdown

New India Assurance to insure health workers engaged in coronavirus fight

The special insurance scheme would be a group personal accident policy, which includes accidental loss of life on account of contracting the deadly virus.

Nutanix bets big on govt clients, defence projects after Nasdaq debut

In India, the company serves customers such as stock exchanges, brokers, non-banking financial companies, financial services and insurance, IT and IT-enabled services.

Govt plans to provide medical treatment to gig workers at a subsidised rate

This may come as a relief to such companies as they will not be compelled to bear the social security cost of its workers

Build a health contingency fund to meet out-of-pocket medical expenses

The average senior citizen couple spends close to Rs 2 lakh on day-to-day health care expenditures every year

How fast bikes and small planes are changing India's healthcare landscape

If you're rich and ailing, you can be flown to a hospital in an air ambulance; other critical patients can have bikes reach them in 17 minutes flat to address their health situations

Healthy margins elusive for health care business

Fortis, recently accused of overcharging patients by 25 to 1,208% on items used in certain treatments, reported a loss last year

CCI to probe pharma, health care sectors

It might look at issues such as abuse of dominant positions in the medical device sector