Healthcare expansion in India still work in progress: President

Citing WHO’s grim predictions about medical challenges before the country, President Pratibha Patil said the expansion of healthcare facilities in India was still a “work in progress“.

“Good health parameters of a society are an absolute necessity for the economic progress... For India, a country with the second largest population in the world, we can realise our demographic dividend only if we empower our citizens,” Ms. Patil told reporters after inaugurating Seven Hills hospital in suburban Andheri this morning.

Pratibha Patil seeks closer India-China business cooperation

President Pratibha Patil today finished his first state visit to China ask the operators in the two Asian giants to expand "models of collaboration" that would address the concerns of both sides to create a long-term partnership and realize their true profitable potential. Describes the six-day visit to China as "very creative", said Chairman of the relationship between the two countries have the potential to turn out to be "one of the largest economic and commercial family members century".

Pratibha Patil visits Forbidden City

On the third day of her state appointment, today, President Pratibha Patil admired "the magnitude of China & apos past" when she visited the Forbidden City in the heart of the assets, where the Ming and Qing dynasty ruled 600 years ago.