Healthcare is your right, but fend for yourself
December 5, 2019Even as in recent years health-related issues have taken centre stage in India's political discourse, and have also started determining electoral outcomes to an extent, it is s
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37.9% stunted children indicates a food crisis
November 8, 2019A startling piece of news has come to the fore in recent days to the effect that as many as 37.9 percent of children in India up to the age of five years are stunted.
Ayushman Bharat: Successful on all fronts
October 9, 2019As one full year has passed since the launch of the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is the right time to evaluate the impact that
Monetize assets and save health sector
August 21, 2019The union budget recently presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has not exactly drawn applause from any section of the healthcare industry in India. This is because there were expectations
Perils of over-regulating health sector
July 19, 2019A tendency has been witnessed in recent days of various arms of the Indian government attempting to over-regulate the domestic pharmaceutical and health industry by changing rules
Health issues to decide who wins polls
April 12, 2019
Even as the election campaign for the April-May Lok Sabha polls to elect a new Central Government in India is now in full swing, the impact of emotive issues seems to be receding and more
Right to Health: Work Still in Progress
March 9, 2019Does the Right to health, and the right to get proper treatment in government and private hospitals, exist on the ground for the ordinary Indians who do not have a surfeit of money or influence? Given the or
Make healthcare budget outcome-oriented
February 6, 2019Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asserted that the country's public health spending will be increased to 2.5 percent of GDP by the year 2025, the fact remains that the problems that confront India'
Health issues to determine 2019 elections?
September 6, 2018The Ayushman Bharat Scheme propelled by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which aims to provide free healthcare up to Rupees five lakh per family member to some 10.74 crore households spread across Indi
Monetize and modernize dilapidated hospitals
August 4, 2018The flooding of the 750 bed Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna, spread over some 100 acres of land, would have been hilarious had it not been so tragic. Various TV channels showed visuals of fish swimmi
Prime Minister Shows Grace on Mann Ki Baat
July 4, 2018Speaking in his "Mann Ki Baat" radio address to the nation the other day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi showered praises on Indian doctors for their contributions, and rightly so.
Ashok Bajpai: Propelling the Patient-Centric Ethos at Apollo
May 4, 2018Mr Ashok Bajpai is the Managing Director of Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals Group and is successfully steering it to greater heights. He has earlier been leading MNC's in India and Asia for the last 12 years. Being
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