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Kartavya Healtheon seeking expansion in Disease Management at Dubai and South Africa
MUMBAI : Kartavya Healtheon, a leading pioneer in ‘patient care management’ across the country will soon roll out their chronic disease management services in evolving countries like Dubai and South Africa. The company is also seeking expansion to streamline the benefits of DM services in these countries by enhancing their presence in assisting patients of chronic diseases. They will also provide patient care support programs like counseling, diet and nutrition, disease awareness and medication adherence into disease management hubs.
In addition to this Kartavya Healtheon is eyeing to enlarge their Disease Management portfolio by providing preventive and self-managed care to patients. This will grow the company’s margin and the needs of primary health care in these countries. Kartavya Healtheon’s CEO Mr. Vikram Srivastava said, “We felt a need as we received many queries that made us to think about it. We see a great potential in these countries as Disease management is gradually picking up pace. We have aimed to make this sector more organized by targeting Africa and middle east. In order to control the viral spread of the chronic illnesses, we at Kartavya Healtheon will soon introduce the concept of self-controlled patient management through subscription based model. In India, by next 1 year we will come out with various programmes for chronic disease which would significantly reduce the healthcare burden cost on patients and provide better outcome of the treatment / therapy”
Chronic diseases like Cancer, hepatitis B, HIV and diabetes are increasing rapidly across the country. Also, there is a continuous gap in chronic care and lifestyle condition awareness, screening and behavioural modification. We are doing this because access to information and disease awareness is very low and healthcare cost is rising day by day.
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI: Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.








