Cough resistance
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in India is plagued by delayed diagnostics and inaccurate treatment procedures. An initiative in …
Elderly & lonely
India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …
Ambulance emergency
India desperately needs timely and affordable transport for effective healthcare delivery
Delhi hospitals freed of poor
Delhi High Court exempts four private hospitals from treating the poor for free. Experts fear other hospitals will follow
Short on paramedics
Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country
Drugs on EMI
People in an extremely backward Haryana town, where almost every fifth person has hepatitis C, are forced to seek treatment on EMIs
Emergence of South
2013 human development report applauds efforts of developing nations. Is India on track?
Allocate 3 per cent of GDP to healthcare, says Indian Medical Association
Recommendations for Union Budget 2013-14 include wooing private sector; public health experts sceptical
When flu turns fatal
In the past two months, as many as 1,198 people in India have died of swine flu, a disease which is only as threatening as seasonal flu. Jyotsna …
Operation cover-up
Rat poison theory offered by the Chhattisgarh government to explain the sterilisation deaths is a facade, finds an investigation by Jyotsna Singh.…
'Like MDGs, India may fail to achieve SDG targets on malnutrition'
309,000 infants die on first day
India tops global list of first day deaths of infants; chronic malnourishment blamed
Money set aside to build institutions, not public health
Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014
Degree without honours
Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health
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