Current Affairs Questions

Explanation :

• On 24^th July, 2019, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) National Institute for Medical Statistics (ICMR-NIMS), in partnership with Population Council, launched the National Data Quality Forum (NDQF).
• NDQF will integrate learnings from scientific and evidence-based initiatives and guide actions through periodic workshops and conferences.
• Its activities will help establish protocols and good practices of data collection, storage, use and dissemination that can be applied to health and demographic data, as well as replicated across industries and sectors.
• NDQF aims to bring together relevant stakeholders, subject matter experts, industry leaders, decision makers, and data scientists / analysts onto a common platform. This platform will be guided by the direction provided by a high level steering committee and operationalized with the help of a technical advisory group composed of subject matter experts.

Source: Civil Services Chronicle Online

Explanation :

• On July 20^th, 2019, Telangana Government and World Economic Forum's Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution Network signed MoU to launch ‘Medicine from the Sky’ project.
• The project, to run in partnership with the government of Telangana and Health Net Global, will include a comprehensive study of drone-based deliveries for blood, vaccines, medical samples and organs.
• The project will help facilitate better decision-making in healthcare supply chains, focus on alast-mile’ deliveries to augment national healthcare programmes, and address issues that affect the medical distribution system.

Source: Civil Services Chronicle Online