Former Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India, Shri CK Mishra recently joined IPE Global’s Board of Directors. With more than 30 years of public service, Shri Mishra has served as an administrator, policy-maker and public health strategist holding a wide range of assignments […]
With one of every six staff member affected by the virus directly or indirectly and the fear of third wave looming large, we decided to allow staff to work from office only after they have furnished the certificate of first jab by June 30 and all jabs by September 30. There is an internal reward scheme […]
The goal of World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) is to acknowledge and celebrate the importance of equipping young people with crucial skills that prepare them for employment and entrepreneurship. In 2021 the focus on skill-based learning has been highlighted by every education institute and government alike. With NEP 2020 giving special emphasis on vocational and […]
As a broader theme this year, the United Nations on World Youth Skills Day 2021 pays tribute to the resilience and creativity of youth through the crisis. The last 18 months have been tough for the entire world but the young workforce who were looking ahead towards a better tomorrow were suddenly dealing with lack […]
We also need to initiate community level and random testing in hot spots like tourist destinations where one is seeing an upsurge in uncontrolled movement
Even as the second wave of the pandemic has begun to rescind itself in majority parts of India, the predictions of an even deadlier third wave, with children as the main sufferers, continues to loom large over the population. Vaccinating a billion people with two doses of a vaccine would prove to be a humongous […]
Continuing vaccine hesitancy is prompting authorities to toy with some out-of-the-box solutions, including incentives ranging from free masks and transport to cash rewards for getting the jab. India’s covid-19 vaccination drive has been held back by short supplies, hesitancy and misinformation. In general, it is thought, vaccines have received a cold response from the public even as the pandemic […]
It starts right from birth. Tetanus, diptheria, measles, rubella, BCG, polio…the vaccine list starts within a few days/weeks of being born. So, why is it different for Covid-19? A combination of the magnitude of the virus, apprehension among parents and ambiguity on vaccine efficacy are a few reasons. Experts have already predicted a third wave […]
There have been talks about whether a six feet distance between a Covid-19 positive patient and a healthy person can prevent the transmission. Since the pandemic struck the world, experts have time and again suggested a series of guidelines and released protocols for a speedy recovery and breaking the chain. Maintaining a gap of six […]
India risks repeating the traumatic mass movement that occurred last year after it enforced one of the world’s toughest national lockdown, eliminating millions of jobs quickly. The lockdown fueled the most disruptive migration in the Indian subcontinent that witnessed scores walking barefoot for days at a stretch only to reach home.
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday asked the central government to prioritise testing and vaccination in rural areas as the covid-19 spread is now going to peri-urban and rural places. Dr Sujeet K. Singh, Director NCDC while presenting the epidemiological findings and a granular analysis of the covid-19 trajectory in the States […]
IPE Global and LSE (London School of Economics) Alumni Delhi with MeraDoc, a pro-bono initiative that connects doctors with COVID-19 patients on Wednesday hosted a webinar on ‘best practices and strategies for handling COVID-19’ with leading doctors in Delhi. Renowned panel comprising of Dr Harsh Mahajan (Founder, Mahajan Imaging), Dr Neeraj Jain (Chairman, Dept. of […]