Marxists vs Paternalists vs Liberals: Where healthcare stands in India

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

No health net for 3.1 bln by 2023 deadline

The World Health Organization (WHO) 13th General Programme of Work targeted universal health coverage (UHC) between 2019 and 2023

Iatrogenesis unbound: Review of 'Healers or Predators?'

A rare anthology of medical cases investigated to expose the corrupt underbelly of healthcare

Digital dispensaries: How district mineral foundations help healthcare in Odisha

Patients in mining-affected districts can connect to far-away doctors via Internet

A human-rights approach is essential to end the global TB epidemic

it is critical to ensure that tuberculosis services are included within essential universal healthcare packages and social protection programmes

Why is private healthcare opposing the Clinical Establishments Act?

Enforcing the act is troublesome as health is a state subject and states are succumbing to the pressure of the private healthcare sector, driven …

ASHA workers’ strike in Delhi continues

Workers demanding permanent salary and transport allowance

National Digital Health Mission: Weak links in a weak chain

Instead of making a show of improving private healthcare, the Union government would be better off if it focuses on improving its public health …

COVID-19: Where are those pushing for privatised healthcare?

NITI Aayog, which has always advocated privatisation of public health infrastructure, has been silent recently  

Only 5% of abortions in India take place in public health facilities

Women in India face considerable challenges due to limited availability of abortion services in public health facilities

Will Astana Declaration succeed where Alma-Ata failed?

The new declaration, that renews the global pledge to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, is a step forward but still lacks on several fronts

Budget 2018: Balanced focus on rural, urban health needs will be crucial

The Centre should push for further decentralisation of health services

COVID-19 pandemic: Women in charge

Women make up the majority of workers in the health and social welfare sectors globally. Nearly one in three women work in agriculture and do …

Revenue targets, management staff making doctors pawns in corporate hospitals: Study

‘Corporate hospitals have reduced patients to factories’

Cost of setting up an AIIMs shot by 147% in just 4 years: CAG report

From 2006 to 2010, the cost of setting up an AIIMS shot by 147% under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, shows a report by the …

The problem for biosimilars

Reliance Life Sciences won a case against Roche, 4 years after the MNC sued to stave off challenge to a hit breast cancer drug

Healthcare algorithm in US shows racial bias

The computer algorithm reduced the number of black patients by more than half, while gave more access to the whites for high-risk health care …

Noise pollution forces patients to check out of hospitals: study

Noise levels in intensive care units have been found to be as high as that generated by loud music coming through headphones

Why International Yoga Day is no cause for celebration in India

The debate around International Yoga Day is not about health benefits. It is about the media spectacle in the name of health when spending on …

Paramedics show the way

How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline

Killer hospitals: Primary healthcare key to curb child deaths

Doctors at Odisha’s Vimsar hospital say if primary healthcare improves, the death toll at bigger hospitals would be fewer

Improving women's well-being needs more than access to free healthcare: study

Data from one of the largest state-funded health insurance scheme in India shows gender disparity continued even where free hospital care was provided

Health infrastructure sans care

Who will run all the institutes and labs promised?

COVID-19: A long economic quarantine

Forecast of high temperature, erratic rains and cyclone push India’s poor into a point of no survival return  

COVID-19 virus now in community, getting bigger: Himanta Sarma

Assam recorded its highest one-day spike of 1,202 new COVID-19 cases on July 4; 782 cases were from Guwahati alone