Six charts that show the state of India’s health before it was hit by Covid-19

In 2019, food poisoning and diarrhoea were the main disease outbreaks in the country.

Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com

· Nov 29, 2021 · 07:30 pm

Wasting children, anaemic women: National Family Health Survey data shows troubling reversals

Higher levels of obesity suggest even those who do not go hungry get poor nutrition.

Tabassum Barnagarwala

· Nov 26, 2021 · 09:00 am

Modi launches Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, citizens to have health IDs

The prime minister said that medical records of citizens will be digitally protected.

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· Sep 27, 2021 · 12:43 pm

Why India’s public health insurance doesn’t work very well – and how it can be fixed

Three years since the PM-JAY scheme began, it is yet to meet its objective of seamless and cashless access to services at the point of care.

Gokulananda Nandan, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 22, 2021 · 07:30 pm

Guinea confirms West Africa’s first death due to Marburg virus disease

Cases of the disease are extremely rare, and the last major outbreak occurred in Angola in 2005.

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· Aug 10, 2021 · 05:19 pm

Chhattisgarh’s health minister is opposing his government’s plan to give grants to private hospitals

Public health experts have roundly criticised the proposal. It is not clear why even the health minister was kept out of the decision-making.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Jun 30, 2021 · 06:30 am

What was behind the mystery illness that struck Eluru in Andhra Pradesh

Around 600 people fell sick last month in a mini-epidemic.

M Somasekhar

· Jan 07, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Covid-19: Working with Britain’s NHS, I think Mumbai’s hospitals should borrow these ideas from UK

India’s commercial capital spends more on roads than on health. That should change.

Eesha Gokhale

· Jul 09, 2020 · 11:30 am

A newly designed vaccine may eradicate polio once and for all

A challenge in eradicating polio comes from a version of the vaccine itself, which relies on live but attenuated virus. A new vaccine may be the answer.

Patricia L Foster, The Conversation

· Sep 24, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Gujarat: Nine tested positive for Congo fever, alert issued in Rajasthan

Gujarat Health Department officials said four patients have so far died of the fever in the state.

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· Sep 06, 2019 · 01:37 pm

Encephalitis: SC issues notice to Centre, Bihar, UP on plea seeking urgent steps to control disease

The PIL also sought direction to the Centre and state governments to create necessary infrastructure for treatment.

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· Jul 15, 2019 · 07:23 pm

Bihar: Only 43% of doctors and 29% of nurses employed in government hospitals, state tells SC

The state made the admission about the woeful state of its health infrastructure in an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Monday.

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· Jul 03, 2019 · 01:56 pm