Rare blood donor registry; need of the hour
Reena Mathews lost blood heavily during delivery and urgently required blood. A sample of her blood was sent to the blood bank for matching.

Health insurance meet to thrash out strategy
Experts would explore formulating a new strategy for the country’s stumbling health insurance sector at a national conference, addressing its handicaps such as lack of standardised treatment and billing, poor public health spending, low foreign investment and dearth of competent insurance intermediaries.