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Every country has its own challenges to address issue of rare disease policy: Prasanna Shirol

Every country has its own challenge when it comes to addressing the rare disease policy, said Prasanna Kumar B Shirol, co-founder and Executive Director of Organization for Rare Diseases in...

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Centre Announces ‘One-Time’ Financial Assistance For Rare Disease Patients, Activists Calls It An Eyewash

Image Credits: Navodaya Times One year after the Centre had announced Rs 100 crore special fund for the children suffering from rare disease under National Policy on Treatment of Rare Diseases...

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Doctors lobbying for making new-born screening mandatory

Inborn errors of metabolism can easily be detected at an early stage through the test and diseases can be prevented even before their symptoms appear. New Delhi: The doctors working in...

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No policy for rare diseases, govt declares ‘one-time financial assistance’

The Union health minister announced a ‘one-time financial assistance’ in Parliament on Friday, but did not specify any amount Days after withdrawing the national policy for treatment of rare diseases (NPTRD),...

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Callous policy U-turn

Prasanna Shirol  Updated on January 06, 2019 Centre fails patients of rare diseases Promises are futile if they fail to deliver. When the National Policy on Rare Diseases was introduced in 2017,...

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A RARE Victory For Rare Disease Patients In India In Grave Danger

One of the unfortunate realities of Indian society and governance institutions at large is the fact that there is not enough conversation on the lives of persons with rare disease. With discrimination rife...

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India’s rare diseases policy hangs in balance

A 10-member committee, formed  to draft a revised policy, has not held a single meeting yet More than 70 million people across India suffering from rare diseases do not have...

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Longer wait for patients as the government calls its own rare disease policy impractical

The policy was approved in May 2018 but no patients have received aid under its provisions. Now the government wants to reframe it. Seven-year-old girl with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a...

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Centre to reframe policy for rare diseases, files affidavit in HC

The Central government has filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court, underlying need to re-frame the policy for rare diseases which was finalised and approved last year. The Centre...

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Centre to reframe policy for rare diseases, files affidavit in HC

The Central government has filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court, underlying need to re-frame the policy for rare diseases which was finalised and approved last year. The Centre...

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