Tag: Shobha Shukla – CNS (Citizen News Service)

‘Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies’

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies” are the immortal words of Saint Mother Teresa, which sum up what Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva asserts to hasten the pace of progress for a disease-free India. Dr KS Sachdeva has healed thousands of patients in a tertiary level hospital in India’s capital Delhi, has served an illustrious inning at India’s national tuberculosis programme and is now serving as Deputy Director General at the national AIDS programme in India.

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies” are the immortal words of Saint Mother Teresa, which sum up what Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva asserts to hasten the pace of progress for a disease-free India. Dr KS Sachdeva has healed thousands of patients in a tertiary level hospital in India’s capital Delhi, has served an illustrious inning at India’s national tuberculosis programme and is now serving as Deputy Director General at the national AIDS programme in India.

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Holiday from drugs? A big NO for asthma control!

An estimated 300 million people are living with asthma worldwide with an additional 100 million new cases expected to be added by 2025. WHO estimates that 15 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) are lost annually because of this chronic disea…

An estimated 300 million people are living with asthma worldwide with an additional 100 million new cases expected to be added by 2025. WHO estimates that 15 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) are lost annually because of this chronic disease that kills an estimated 250,000 people annually. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hold the promise of reducing deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by one third by 2030 – a tall order indeed, as far as asthma is concerned.

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