Lessons from a pandemic: How India can reform its private healthcare sector

The market never regulates healthcare in public interest. States must ensure that this happens.

Abhay Shukla

· May 30, 2020 · 03:30 pm

What lessons does the Covid-19 pandemic hold for India’s health system?

We must start by recognising the centrality of public health services and initiating a system upgrade.

Abhay Shukla

· May 29, 2020 · 11:30 am

Lynchings in India: A doctor explains the pathology of normalising extreme violence

Mob violence may be a form of pathological normalcy – unhealthy behaviours, which appear so commonly in society that they are considered the norm.

Abhay Shukla

· Sep 06, 2018 · 02:30 pm

In numbers: Maharashtra’s under-funded health services keep its junior doctors in the line of fire

Violence against doctors is not about doctor-patient conflict as much as it is about lack of funds and personnel to attend to the sick.

Abhay Shukla

· Apr 01, 2017 · 02:30 pm

With cardiac stent prices capped, can India now have greater regulation of private medical practice?

For price caps to be effective there should also be standardised costs of medical services and standard treatment guidelines.

Abhay Shukla

· Mar 07, 2017 · 02:30 pm