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  • Harsh Mander: Why India’s doctors leave for foreign shores while Cuba’s serve their poorest

    Harsh Mander: Why India’s doctors leave for foreign shores while Cuba’s serve their poorest

    Harsh Mander
    · Dec 09, 2025 · 09:00 am
  • Maharashtra proves race to build new medical colleges is no fix for Indian healthcare

    Maharashtra proves race to build new medical colleges is no fix for Indian healthcare

    Tabassum Barnagarwala
    · Dec 26, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • India is increasing medical institutes and seats but that will not be enough to improve healthcare

    India is increasing medical institutes and seats but that will not be enough to improve healthcare

    Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com
    · Dec 13, 2023 · 07:30 pm
  • A woman lost her baby in Nanded. Why couldn’t a new medical college near her home save her child?

    A woman lost her baby in Nanded. Why couldn’t a new medical college near her home save her child?

    Tabassum Barnagarwala
    · Oct 13, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • How true is the health minister’s claim that India’s doctor-population ratio exceeds WHO guidelines?

    How true is the health minister’s claim that India’s doctor-population ratio exceeds WHO guidelines?

    Divyani Dubey, Factchecker.in
    · Aug 05, 2022 · 01:30 pm
  • India’s health budget is not enough to tackle impending climate disasters, warn experts

    India’s health budget is not enough to tackle impending climate disasters, warn experts

    Disha Shetty, IndiaSpend.com
    · Aug 14, 2020 · 07:30 pm
  • NHRC issues notice to UP government after reports say ward boy in Barabanki substitutes for doctor

    NHRC issues notice to UP government after reports say ward boy in Barabanki substitutes for doctor

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    · Jan 03, 2018 · 07:08 pm
  • NHRC issues notice to UP government after reports say ward boy in Barabanki substitutes for doctor

    NHRC issues notice to UP government after reports say ward boy in Barabanki substitutes for doctor

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 03, 2018 · 07:08 pm
  • Doctors’ biases influence how healthcare is rationed out to patients

    Doctors’ biases influence how healthcare is rationed out to patients

    Philip Rosoff
    · Nov 04, 2017 · 02:30 pm
  • Is the Cuban healthcare system really as great as people claim?

    Is the Cuban healthcare system really as great as people claim?

    Rich Warner, The Conversation
    · Dec 02, 2016 · 03:30 pm