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Partiyogita Darpan English Published this article page no  40 RARE DISEASES Why in news? Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently released the draft National Policy for Rare Diseases. Background  Ministry of Health and family Welfare formulated a National Policy for Treatment of Rare Diseases (NPTRD) in July 2017. o It envisaged the setting up of a corpus fund of 100 crore towards funding treatment of rare genetic diseases but this never picked up due to budget constraints. Coronavirus and India  Indias first novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection confirmed in Kerala. Kerala declared coronavirus as State Calamity which later it withdrew.  A Highlevel Group of Ministers has been constituted on directions of Prime Minister to review management of Novel Coronavirus.  India evacuated its citizens from the coronavirushit Hubei province and its capital Wuhan.  Travel Advisory issued informing the public to refrain from travel to China and that anyone with travel history in China since 15th January 2020 could be quarantined. How Kerala is Tackling Coronavirus? To tackle the challenge the state health department has used its past experience in managing the Nipah outbreak. Steps taken by Kerala Government are  Health department set up a statelevel control room and a rapid response team which were directly linked to the 14 district medical offices.  Isolation units were prepared in all the six medical colleges and 14 district government hospitals Partiyogita Darpan English buy.  

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