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Topic: Private healthcare

Dedicated teams, cost, facilities — why pvt hospitals do over 75% of organ transplants in India

+tfp Abantika Ghosh - 14 May, 2022

India is third in the world in numbers of solid organ transplants after US & China, with 17,000-18,000 surgeries each year.

Off The Cuff with Iqbal Singh Chahal

Shivani Rawat - 1 May, 2021

Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal was our guest at ThePrint’s latest Off The Cuff. In a conversation with Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Chahal spoke...

Reimagining health system — how India is innovating to improve access to care

Dr. Indira Behara Tankha - 15 September, 2020

An online panel discussion by Global Health Strategies and ThePrint on 'Reimagining India's Health System' focused on how to take healthcare forward using technology.

Staff testing Covid-positive force Bihar private hospitals to shut doors on non-Covid patients

Dipak Mishra - 19 July, 2020

Private health facilities across Bihar have closed down after their staff or patients tested positive. In some cases, patients are asked to take Covid tests before seeking treatment.

Price controls are a terrible idea to tackle private-public healthcare gap in India

Nitin Pai - 16 June, 2020

There is an environment of mutual distrust among government, hospitals and patients, that existed much before the Covid-19 crisis.

Does India need more Covid-19 testing or is it an uninformed argument?

ThePrint Team - 17 April, 2020

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Thursday joined a battery of health experts who have said that India’s testing rate was very low, urging the Modi govt to increase it.

Fortis, Max, Medanta want to scrap cashless CGHS treatment as govt dues touch Rs 1,700 cr

Himani Chandna - 6 December, 2019

Over 37 lakh people are entitled to cashless treatment under CGHS and ECHS, which are meant to ease public access to quality healthcare.

Top private hospitals may not participate in Modi govt’s flagship healthcare scheme

Himani Chandna - 29 May, 2018

Many super-speciality hospitals may not empanel for Ayushman Bharat, saying reimbursement rates are as low as 11-15 per cent of the actual costs of surgeries.

Five-star hospitals are made only for people who would get their treatment abroad

K K Aggarwal - 22 November, 2017

No hospital can have a right to bill you when you have no money, they will have to give you options.

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ThePrint Team - 28 May, 2021

Opinion

From toilets for disabled to ‘coffee with collector’, a Tamil Nadu IAS officer shows the way

Drashti Shah - 28 May, 2022

Virudhnagar in Tamil Nadu was one of India’s 112 under-developed districts. The current DM is trying to change that.

It’s time we stop seeing Northeast as ‘punishment posting’. The racism is showing

28 May, 2022

Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial is a good chance to learn nuances of domestic violence

28 May, 2022

Economy

What are UST & Luna and why the fall of 2 ‘stablecoins’ led to a crypto crash in India

Shubham Batra - 28 May, 2022

Along with crash in value of UST and Luna coins, Indian market for crypto assets also reeling under strict control imposed by government, with the imposition of TDS on all crypto transactions.

Topic: Private healthcare

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

From toilets for disabled to ‘coffee with collector’, a Tamil Nadu IAS officer shows the way

It’s time we stop seeing Northeast as ‘punishment posting’. The racism is showing

Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial is a good chance to learn nuances of domestic violence

Economy

What are UST & Luna and why the fall of 2 ‘stablecoins’ led to a crypto crash in India

Defence

NSA Ajit Doval pushes for ‘terror free’ Afghanistan, says India stands with Afghan people

National Interest

Why it’s obscene to tell Ukraine to give in & how war-upended global balance of power brings openings for India

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