Officials evoked sharp criticism as the hospital attracted attention following deaths of children in the hospital. Hygiene and sanitation have been one of the major problems in the hospital.
While the study reported the elevated of fecal coliform concentration in potable groundwater in rural regions across India, it also made first-time observations on significant reduction of faecal pathogen concentration in the spatially variable groundwater from 2002 to 2017.
The Health Ministry had prepared a list of central government institutions, district and private hospitals and community health centres for their work in maintaining high standards of sanitation and hygiene in public health facilities and awarded these hospitals under the 'Kayakalp Awards Scheme'.
Women expected to live for 70.4 years and men for 67.8 years, according to latest data.
The report, presented to the state governments on World Toilet Day on Monday, revealed that 52% wards in health facilities were not clean enough while 30% of medical procedure areas didn’t follow hygiene protocol.
About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in India in 2017, the lowest in five years, but the infant death numbers still remained the highest in the world, according to the report.
The qualification involved internal, peer and external assessment on six parameters: hospital upkeep, sanitation and hygiene, waste management, infection control, support services and hygiene promotion.
Gates said that though India has made progress in almost every area of public health, there is still a long way to go in some areas related to child health.
Reckitt has been leveraging its sanitation brands Dettol and Harpic aggressively under its ‘Dettol Harpic Banega Swachh India’ campaign. Both brands have gained incrementally from the campaign.
Two people, including a senior citizen, succumbed to swine flu at different hospitals in the city last week, taking the number of H1N1 casualties to four this year, so far.
Actual spends on CSR activities by Nifty 100 cos that the survey included were more than Rs 6,500 cr for FY 2016 versus a little over Rs 5,000 crore a year ago.
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