Developments in the Healthcare Sector

Q. When was the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme launched in India?

1. 1991
2. 1987
3. 1996
4. 1995

Q.

Name any two plants with chiseling beaks.

Q. was the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution.

1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2. Dr. B.R Ambedkar
3. K.R. Narayanan
4. Jawaharlal Nehru

Q. Where was the first successful open-heart surgery performed under Dr. N. Gopinath?

1. Mumbai
2. Kolkata
3. Vellore
4. Chennai

Q. When was the first successful open-heart surgery performed in India?

1. 1965
2. 1971
3. 1962
4. 1964

Q. Read the following statements and choose the correct option.

Statement 1: AYUSH is an acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy and are the six Indian systems of medicine prevalent and practised in India.

Statement 2: One of the medical fields, Unani, is yet not recognised by the government and no efforts have been made to popularise it.

1. Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect.
2. Only statement 1 is correct.
3. Both statements 1 and 2 are correct.
4. Only statement 2 is correct.

Q. The Special Nutrition Program was started in .

1. 1970-1971
2. 1974-1975
3. 1976-1977
4. 1978-1979

Q. Choose the correct statements with regards to 'Jaipur Foot'.

1. Dr. Ramchandra Sharma is the man who invented the Jaipur Foot.
2. Dr. Pramod Sethi designed artificial limbs, noses and ears.
3. It helps disabled people live regular lives like able-bodied people.
4. It ensures that people are able to run, walk, cycle, work in farms, climb mountains, and even work on wet surfaces.

Q. Choose the correct option:

i. The Ministry of Health is the nodal agency for the implementation of health policies of the government.

ii. One of the main objectives of the sixth Five-Year Plan was to make primary health services as well as medical care services available to all citizens.

iii. Sarojini Naidu was the first Health Minister of independent India.

iv. Various fields of medicines such as Unani, Homoeopathy, Ayurveda, Naturopathy and Allopathy have been recognised by the government and efforts are made to popularise it.

1. All statements i, ii, iii and iv are correct
2. Only statements i and iii are correct.
3. Only statements i, iii and iv are correct.
4. Only statements i, ii and iv are correct.

Q. In 1988, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate polio through global cooperation.

1. True
2. False

Q. Improvement in primary health services and medical care was main focus of which five year plan?

1. Third Four Year Plan
2. Fourth Three Year Plan
3. Fifth Two Year Plan
4. Sixth Five Year Plan

Q. Arrange the following events in the order in which they happened, in India. (In ascending order from top).

1. First Open-Heart Surgery
2. Invention of Jaipur foot
3. First Kidney Transplant
4. First Test Tube Baby

Q. Who among the following was a member of the team that performed the first successful kidney transplant in India?

1. Dr. N. Gopinath
2. Dr. Mohan Rao
3. Dr. Subhash Mukherjee
4. Dr. Rajendra Pathak

Q. By whom was the first successful open-heart surgery performed in India?

1. Dr. Naresh Trehan
2. Dr. N. Gopinath
3. Dr. Anil Chandra Roy
4. Dr. Subhash Rai

Q. A couple married for two years is having difficulties in having a child through natural ways. They go to a doctor who recommends them to opt for having a child through an artificial conception. It was first performed in India by Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyaya in 1978 at Kolkata, and a girl named Durga was born.

Can you identify the artificial conception procedure being alluded to here?

1. Cloning
2. Fragmentation
3. Surrogacy
4. In Vitro Fertilisation

Q. The potential of the Ministry of Health and Social Services was recognised as an instrument of poverty alleviation.

1. True
2. False

Q. What was the first child born through the process of artificial conception in India named as?

1. Laxmi
2. Saraswati
3. Durga
4. Meera

Q. Read the following statements and choose the correct option.

Statement 1: In the 1960s and 1970s, every year healthy infants were born in India, and faced no fatal health problems in the first year of birth.

Statement 2: The World Health Assembly passed a resolution for eradication of Polio in the year 1977.

1. Only statement 1 is true.
2. Both statements 1 and 2 are false.
3. Only statement 2 is true.
4. Both statements 1 and 2 are true.

Q. Which craftsman helped in executing the design of the 'Jaipur Foot'?

1. Anil Chandra Sinha
2. Madan Prasad Singh
3. N. Gopinath
4. Ramchandra Sharma

Q. You get your hand on a time machine and travel back in time to India in the year 1975 to study the progress of the Indian healthcare sector. You will not be able to find which of the following events in the Indian healthcare sector back in 1975?

1. Successful Kidney Transplant
2. Successful Open Heart Surgery
3. Establishment of AIIMS, New Delhi
4. Birth of First Test Tube Baby

Q.

Read the following statements and write your answer as true or false.

Pulse polio immunization program was launched in 1995-96 with an aim to irradicate polio disease from the world.

1. True
2. False

Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are incorrect for the Immunisation Programmes?

1. ‘Expanded Programme of Immunisation’ was launched by the Ministry of Social Justice in 1976.
2. These programmes helped in protecting infants from the threat of polio, tuberculosis, measles, and whooping cough.
3. The World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate polio through global cooperation in 1986.
4. The Pulse Polio Immunisation programme was launched in India in 1995.