Cancer care in India is moving beyond AIIMS or Tata Memorial. Doctors are shifting to their hometowns to open hospitals, and district centres are starting to offer chemo and diagnostics.
As obesity management draws awareness and weight-loss injections are launched in India, hospitals are offering customised multidisciplinary treatments, at a cost.
In letter to DGHS, NATHEALTH, a consortium of private players, seeks NBC provision tweaked to relax height of hospitals from 45 m to 60 m for adding additional 3-4 floors.
Average claim under AB-PMJAY in Chhattisgarh is Rs 10,000, less than national average of Rs 13,000/year, indicating that most patients in state can use scheme only for minor procedures.
In February, 33 of the Chhattisgarh private hospitals were penalised by the administration for fraud and fake AB-PMJAY claims, in one of the biggest-ever crackdowns the state has witnessed.
While some say bringing expertise to a country where cancer cases are rising every year will bring hope, others say it may not always be relevant in the practical Indian context.
The scheme offers free health coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family annually for economically weaker groups. So far, 66 hospitals in Delhi have joined the programme.
In MP’s Sidhi, the Mohan Yadav-led govt’s proposal to privatise district hospital has drawn flak from patients, doctors, patient rights groups & even some within the ruling BJP.
Small & Medium Enterprise hospitals deliver 60% of healthcare services & are growing at 12.9% CAGR. But infra gaps, financial constraints & competition from premium chains are top challenges.
The main enemies of grassroots vigilance are personality cult, loyalty to party 'high command', sycophancy and a controlled economy where permit-licence is a pre-condition to economic survival, Minoo Masani wrote in 1989.
CM Yogi Adityanath claims that from being called a ‘bimaru’ state, UP is now among the top-3 economies in India. The 2026 Budget session of the UP assembly is currently underway.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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