In an environment where there is, often legitimate, mistrust between stakeholders—insurance firms, hospitals and patients—it is no surprise that the results are sub-optimal.
A talk at ICC on the institute's 67-year legacy began by displaying rare photos of Nehru at the convocation, but soon turned to the state of healthcare and AIIMS' role in framing policies.
In 'Dreams of a Healthy India', TS Singh Deo writes about how Chhattisgarh focused on increasing the government healthcare infrastructure to reach the poor and the marginalised.
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya told Parliament in March that India had a ratio of 1 doctor per 834 patients, but this included doctors practising traditional forms of medicine.
The 15th Finance Commission, in a first-of-its-kind stock-taking exercise in the backdrop of Covid pandemic, has put out statistics about chronic shortages in India’s health system.
Beyond the coronavirus pandemic, India is often at the cusp of outbreaks such as encephalitis or measles. A bankrupt WHO will leave India without best global practices.
The Press in a liberal democracy has to be a forum for the expression of different points of view. It must not suppress, taint or adulterate news, wrote Sachin Sen in 1960.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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