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• Need to create awareness about lead poisoning, says health secretary

  Center for Global Development's senior fellow Rachel Silverman Bonnifield said around the world, the silent scourge of lead poisoning is stealing children's potential while driving the growing burden of cardiovascular disease. Lead is a pernicious poison that causes extensive harm, even at low levels. Lead exposure in early childhood interferes with normal cognitive development, causing lifelong learning deficits and behavioral problems.

  

• Health secy goes undercover to expose doc-chemist nexus

  Garg pretended to suffer from abdominal pain. He found that there were very few patients in the emergency between 10pm and 11pm. The emergency medical officer without examining the ‘patient’ prescribed a branded drug — “MCAIN” syrup. The same prescription was shown to all the three chemist shops, where only one shop had this brand and the price of the different brands varied. An explanation of the doctor and the chemist shops has been called and a report has to be submitted within a fortnight.

  

• Ex-UK health chief defends record after COVID messages leak

  Like many countries, the U.K. had little capacity to test for coronavirus when the pandemic began. The virus spread rapidly through nursing homes in the initial months of the country's first outbreak in 2020, leading to around 20,000 deaths.

  

• Share information on heat-related illnesses daily, states told

  With unprecedented and blistering heat this year, the health ministry has asked states and district authorities to share daily surveillance report of heat-related illnesses with National Centre for Disease Control.

  

• Tamil Nadu: Vaccination numbers down amid new wave scare

  Several vaccination centres across Tamil Nadu are empty throughout the day, even during the weekend mega camps, and the average number of vaccinations in a day has dropped from about 1.6 lakh in February to little more than 64,000 in April.

  

• UK's Johnson plans to scrap COVID-19 self-isolation law

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to permanently revoke emergency coronavirus laws as Britain's COVID-19 cases continue to fall, the report said, adding official guidance would remain but would not result in fines or legal punishment if ignored.

  

• Biden picks Becerra as health secretary as he builds a team to battle Covid-19

  Becerra will lead the health agency as officials struggle to contain a resurgence of the coronavirus, including record infections and a daily death toll that has exceeded 2,000 in recent days, and to prepare for a mammoth effort to vaccinate Americans against the virus.

  

• UK Health Secretary urges vigilance amid vaccine hopes

  UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has urged Britons to "remain vigilant" despite looming hopes for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus and keep abiding by the restrictions currently in place rules to curb the resurgence of new cases.

  

• Jamshedpur: Health secretary conducts surprise inspection of MGM hospital

  State health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni on Saturday made a surprise inspection of the MGMMCH to take stock of the situation.

  

• HC seeks details on government-run hospitals across Tamil Nadu

  The Madras High Court Tuesday sought from the Tamil Nadu health secretary and other officials the details of facilities provided in district hospitals and the strength of staff in these institutions.

  

• Madras high court asks TN govt to file report on transfusion of HIV positive blood to pregnant woman

  The Madras high court on Thursday took suo motu cognizance of blatant act of negligence by medical authorities in which HIV positive blood was transfused to a pregnant woman in Virudhunagar district.