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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readKnown to be the second largest private lender, HDFC Bank has launched co-branded medical benefits card with Apollo Hospitals. The prepaid medical card will allow corporates to disburse medical allowances to their employees and has insurance cover for accidents. Significantly, the corporates may load the specified allowance, with the HDFC Bank-Apollo Medical Benefits Cards, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readSilverine spa & salon, which is the newly opened brand of Punjab’s leading Cleopatra chain of spa & salon, has organised Summer Spa Fest in Jaipur recently. The month-long fest was aimed to rejuvenate mind, body and soul and distress senses, leaving the consumers feel fresh and active. During the event, Richa Aggarwal, Beauty ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readNational Development and Reform Commission has announced that Chinese regulators will lift price controls on most pharmaceutical drugs, starting June 1, in hopes that the market driven pricing system will keep a tab over medical costs. Reportedly, Beijing has vowed to ease government controls in favour of market competition in as many areas as ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readPunjab government has introduced a digitised healthcare card for all school students in the state, which will provide them free treatment for 30 life-threatening diseases. The Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Surjit Kumar Jayani had launched this comprehensive full profile digitised health care card recently. Jayani also assured that over 15 lakh children ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readThe healthcare industry in India is growing at a rapid pace as the sector has been predominantly privatised and accounts for around $65 billion. It comprises of hospital services, diagnostic services, diagnostic products, medical technology, clinical trial services and clinical research organization. Sharing his thoughts about the healthcare industry, Om P Manchanda, CEO, Dr ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readAiming to reach out to the tuberculosis patients, Union Government announced to launch a toll-free helpline, whereby even a missed call would suffice to connect them with the health programme against the Tuberculosis (TB) disease. Reportedly, the government will use the mobile and telecommunication technology and provide platform to suspected patients to call on ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readFee for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses will be costlier by 10 per cent by this coming academic year. As per a recent report unveiled by leading daily TOI, on the basis of a copy of the proceedings of an official meeting held by Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readUnion Government is planning to link healthcare scheme with the Jan Dhan initiative, a flagship financial inclusion programme of BJP government, in a bid to offer adequate facilities to poor people, informed Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. About 14 crore bank accounts have already been opened with over Rs 14,000 crore coming in as ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readIn his recent budget speech, Union Cabinet Minister of Finance & Planning Sudhir Mungantiwar has made it vocal that certain medicines required for the treatment of cancer will be exempted from sales tax and said that the list of medicines would be notified separately. Significantly, it is estimated to cost the exchequer Rs 15 ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readAs Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is all set to unveil Union Budget 2015 on February 28, manufacturers of medical devices have sought import duty concessions from him. The Association of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED) has also sought a blanket ban on 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in brown field projects. "To ...