Tag: ICMR doing 3 studies on post-Covid heart attack

Over 2.7 lakh children missing since 2018  Over 2.75 lakh children went missing in the country in the last five years, while more than 2.4 lakhs were traced, Union women and child development minister Smriti Irani informed the Lok Sabha.  Among the missing, over 2.12 lakh children were girls, more than three times the number of boys 62,000.  The total number of missing children stood at 2,75,125 and this included 2,12,825 girls and 62,237 boys and 63 children of the third gender, the number of children who went missing between January 2018 and June 2023.  Madhya Pradesh topped the list with 61,102 missing children.  The ministry unified its efforts and schemes related to children under Mission Vatsalya and announced that four portals – TrackChild (for missing/found children), CARINGS (for the adoption of children), ICPS portal (for monitoring the scheme) and Khoya-Paya (citizen-centric application for missing and sighted children) – would be integrated into one common platform.  The TrackChild portal has been implemented with the involvement of the ministries of Home Affairs and Railways as well as state governments.  Law governing anti-trafficking crimes: The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956 ICMR doing 3 studies on post-Covid heart attack  The Indian Council of Medical Research is conducting three different studies to ascertain the facts regarding rising cases of cardiac arrest after the pandemic, Mandaviya said in response to a question in the Lok Sabha.  He said a multi-centric matched case control study on factors associated with sudden deaths among adults aged 18 to 45 in India is ongoing at around 40 hospitals/research centres.  Another multicentric hospital-based matched case control study is underway at around 30 COVID-19 clinical registry hospitals to determine the effect of the Covid vaccine on thrombotic events among the population aged 18 to 45 in 2022 in India.  To address…