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Marginalized families often have a hard time trying to start their own businesses, but a program from the Department of Social Welfare and Development can get them off on the right foot. The Sustainable Livelihood Program is a community-based ...

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Welfare Department is assisting the Federal Special Task Force (FSTF) in looking after the welfare of stateless children that are housed at its Rumah Pelindungan Ehsan, according to the department's Children's Department ...

Three teenagers arrested as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are actually Indian, the department of Health and Family Welfare in government of West Bengal said. The three, aged between 17 and 19, were arrested by the Govandi police after the special branch ...

To help infants with clubfoot, the medical health and family welfare department is planning to rope in ASHA-Sahayoginis to identify clubfoot cases in the state so that they can be provided proper treatment at hospitals.

The state health and family welfare department has issued a memorandum to release a fund of about Rs 21 crore for payment of fixed monthly honorarium to the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) for the period from April to July.

Dr. Dhanya Kumar,Director of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Baya Kishore, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. S. N. Simha, President, IAPC and Dr. Nandini Vallath. In the first phase, the program will be implemented in ...

The state has taken a step forward in eliminating measles with the medical health and family welfare department administering second dose of measles vaccines to over 1.29 crore under-10 children in the last three financial years under the measles catch up ...

In a step to discourage the sale and consumption of tobacco products, the medical health and family welfare department has directed district collectors to launch a campaign to remove all the advertisement boards which violate the rules pertaining to point of ...

Dismissing reports that the use of pentavalent vaccine had adverse effect on children, Department of Health and Family Welfare, assured that the risks involved in administering the vaccine was the same as other vaccines. At a workshop jointly organised by the ...