Health
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By Pavitra Mohan |
September 23 in many senses is a landmark day in the context of India’s long and winding road to treating healthcare as…
India’s ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) as well as the Indian media appear to be pleased that the nation’…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the number of deaths in India directly or indirectly attributable to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In an unrelated 2018 investigation, the NPPA reported “unethical profiteering in a failed market system”, with some…
By Pavitra Mohan |
India ushers in World Tuberculosis day in 2022 on 24 March with mixed feelings. As the COVID pandemic (hopefully) wanes…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
As the pandemic recedes, some memories will not. One of the more terrible outcomes of Covid-19 was the isolation of…
By T Jacob John |
The nation should be alarmed at the slow manner in which the administration has responded to the snowballing nature of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The repeal of the three farm bills is in the headlines. A little beneath the surface and reportedly all set for the…
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No one can allege that India’s health care system is all bad. It has worked some wonders. Two generations ago children…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Save those who have been termed ‘climate deniers,’ it is generally acknowledged that the climate crisis is a threat…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is widely understood and…
During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, we had not realised that pregnant women could have serious…
By GN Bajpai |
The Covid -19 pandemic has mercilessly pummelled the health system globally. The human toll exceeds many times the…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual property rights of…