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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: Healthcare

Markandey Katju’s advice to Muslims, K. Sujatha Rao’s prescription for healthcare

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Can a law prevent attacks on doctors or should govt address overburdened healthcare system?

Indian Medical Association has demanded enactment of a central law to check violence against members of the medical community.

Bibek Debroy on GDP estimation and Devi Shetty on improving medical education

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Iron tablets, polio-drug vials will soon come with labels in Hindi, other Indian languages

The proposal focuses on iron tablets and polio drops as they are the drugs most commonly administered to children at government centres.

Africa has a new health care crisis — obesity

The recently published Global Wellness Index set alarm bells ringing when South Africa scored poorly for life expectancy, alcohol use, depression and diabetes.

Modi govt to send team of experts to tackle West Nile fever in Kerala

A four-member team will leave for Kerala after a 7-year-old boy in Malappuram district was diagnosed with the viral infection.

After goofing up its rare-disease policy, India looks to US, EU, Japan for pointers

The Delhi High Court has given the Union government nine months to come up with a revised policy on rare diseases.

Not a single rural healthcare centre in 15 states meets govt’s minimum quality standards

CPR report says healthcare centres don't meet standards designed by health ministry in terms of infrastructure, manpower, medical equipment and drugs.

PM Modi lays foundation stones for AIIMS, IIMC & other projects in Jammu

New AIIMS would transform health care facilities and will also provide new opportunities to the youth, he said.

NITI Aayog calls for 1.5 lakh more health centres under Ayushman Bharat by 2023

In a document released Wednesday, the NITI Aayog stated that health centres need to provide more services to expand the existing limited scope of primary healthcare.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Indian firm joins hands with US manufacturer to locally develop all-terrain vehicles for armed forces

Under joint venture, JSW Sarbloh Motors will indigenise and manufacture TX range ATVs in Chandigarh. The first India-assembled unit is expected by early 2026.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?