New government must work to improve health infrastructure

India’s GDP for health is less than 1.5 per cent and is one of the lowest in the world

Health infrastructure sans care

Who will run all the institutes and labs promised?

What India’s first assessment of district hospitals found

Not all 707 district hospitals performed as standards demand  

Selling a buffalo for a brain scan: India’s COVID-19 crisis reveals deep fractures in its health system

Patients are caught between the under-resourced public sector and the profit-focused private health market

Poor health infrastructure, high population density make UP a ‘COVID-19 hell’

Health infrastructure cannot be built overnight, experts say, as the state bleeds under the viral assault

Behind the curve: How COVID-19 exposed India’s apathetic rural health infrastructure

It should not have taken a pandemic for the government to realise the importance of the rural healthcare infrastructure and of universal free …

NITI Aayog’s PPP model for district hospitals pushes for privatisation of health sector

The move is in line with the Centre's agenda to push government health sector towards privatisation on the grounds that public health …

COVID-19: Virus and vaccine lessons from 2021 for better 2022

Inoculation, restrictions, infrastructure and memory are effective tools in mitigating COVID-19 infection and easing restrictions on …

As told to Parliament (December 7, 2021): Thousands of posts vacant at India’s rural health centres

All that was discussed in the House through the day

COVID-19: Challenges today and tomorrow

The choice is stark for Indians

Is India ready for the third COVID-19 wave?

Only 20% of the Indian population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19

COVID-19: Africa races to build capacity for meeting health security needs

Several African countries have signed deals with global manufacturers, distribution agencies to stregthen health infra internally

Lessons learnt tackling COVID-19 can be used in global AMR response: Report

Increased investment, availability and accessibility of health infrastructure and global cooperation key to tackling AMR, it says 

Demonetisation: public health system ill-equipped and unreliable

The government’s assurance of treatment in government hospitals is hollow as the system is inadequate

Marxists vs Paternalists vs Liberals: Where healthcare stands in India

How health as a right, investment and consumption regularly crops up in capitalist discourses