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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicHealthcare in India

Topic: Healthcare in India

Rajasthan’s Right to Health Bill disregards citizen voices, must be scrapped

It seems that the Rajasthan govt neither considers the private sector an equal partner nor does it think that doctors have the patient’s best interests in mind.

India needs to innovate in filling vacant hospital posts. Building new AIIMS alone won’t cut it

Right-minded reforms in healthcare are in place, but India should not end up in a situation where the surgery is successful but the patient is dead.

Gender skew in cancer diagnosis? Just 1 in 3 child patients in Delhi & 2 of 5 in Chennai are girls

A study published in The Lancet Oncology has found a significant skew in favour of male children getting diagnosed with cancer and thus receiving treatment.

Why men can — and should — participate in the care economy too

If liberating women’s potential is the output, how might increasing men’s labour contribution to the paid care industry be the input?

Indian healthcare tasted the medicine of public-private partnership. Don’t let it go to waste

India's 28% urban population has access to 66% of the hospital beds. But Covid catalysed both public and private sectors leading to collaborations like never before.

‘Men get priority’: Data shows Indian women get less access to heart, transplant surgeries

Data from several hospitals in country shows women biggest organ donors, but less likely to get lifesaving surgeries than men. Gender gap more pronounced in north India, doctors say.

Only 198 accredited labs in 555 govt medical colleges — study finds big India health loophole

Study by researchers from PGIMER-Chandigarh, Government Medical College Baramati, and Manipal Hospital Yeshwanthpur Bangalore. It was published in Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.

Virtual clinics for mental health, nutrition — why hospital chain has taken metaverse plunge

Yashoda Hospitals Group has set up an information centre in the space it bought on metaverse platform Decentraland, and expects patient services to be ready by next year.

SubscriberWrites: Time for Indian government to re-think healthcare policy reforms

There is a need to convert the massive healthcare demand into tangible job opportunities for students, especially post the Ukraine evacuation of Indian students, writes Shakti Singh.

Modi govt schemes JSY, PMMVY work only if health workers do. See what data reveals

While CHWs provide critical maternal health services to prepare pregnant women for delivery, their contribution is rarely discussed.

On Camera

The solution to deteriorating India-US relations—go nuclear

New Delhi should now speed up its legal reforms to facilitate the participation of foreign companies in its nuclear development efforts.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.