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The government will focus on devolution, decentralisation and timely responsiveness to expand the reach and effectiveness of health programmes under the National Health Mission (NHM), union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said on Tuesday.

Focusing majorly on health, the Delhi government on Monday hiked its budgetary allocation for public health by Rs.472 crore over last year, and proposed a three-tier health system with opening of 1,000 mohalla (community) clinics and 150 polyclinics in various parts of the city.

A cancer treatment through Yoga that does away with the need for chemotherapy to arrest and cure the disease is just a year away, union Minister of state for AYUSH Shripad Naik said on Saturday.

The central government on Monday asked the Delhi High Court to vacate the interim stay on ban on some fixed dose combinations (FDC) medicines sold by pharma majors saying they "endanger patient safety".

The government on Monday launched Bedaquiline, an exclusive drug to tackle drug resistant TB cases in the country, among several other initiatives against the disease.

India's AYUSH Minister Sripad Yesso Naik on Sunday said the ministry will ink an agreement with the World Health Organization to popularise AYUSH system of medicine at a global level.

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Government included more 88 drugs, surgical and consumables in Jan Aushadhi Scheme to make more covers over different portfolios. Till now Jan Aushadhi stores includes total 488 medicines including - Anti-allergy, Anti-infective, Anti-cancer, Antidiabetic agents, Central Nervous System disease, Cardio Vascular Agents, Eye Nose throat product, Eye disease, Gastro Intestinal Tract disease, Harmone, Non Opoidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs, Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs, Nutrient, Respiratory disease, Skin disease, Vaccine, Vitamins & Minerals, Miscellaneous etc.

The Supreme Court asked the central government as to why it was not making functional or upgrading its own vaccines manufacturing units, and instead procuring the vaccines from the market.