Where's the fire alarm?
Most hospitals in India fail the fire safety test, yet they take no corrective step
HIV bill at risk
Health ministry keeps draft bill under wraps. Activists fear provision of free treatment is diluted
Court slaps contempt notice on MCI, health ministry
Medical Council of India failed to start rural health practitioner course
Endgame begins
Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio
TB turns invincible
Discovery of a deadly form of TB in a Mumbai hospital underscores mismanagement
Fever stalks UP
Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus
Leprosy looms
Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination
Health Act faces hurdles
Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists
Impatient to sterilise
In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines
Out of control
Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth
Keeping cancer alive
Punjab has been in the grip of cancer for over a decade but the government has ignored the threat. Sonal Matharu reports with photographer …