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Kota Child Deaths: A Story Of Flailing Primary & Secondary Care,...
Doctors and medical staff attend to an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit of Kota’s J K Lon Hospital, which saw...
2019 Health Wrap Up: There’s Progress But India’s Health Systems Need Strengthening
New Delhi: From a continued decline in infant and maternal mortality to inadequate funding for healthcare, from poor...
Stronger Health Workforce, Realistic Targets Needed For Performance-Based Health Funds
Mumbai: Four states--Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Nagaland--lost their chance to earn performance-based...
India Now Has To Choose Between Two Disease Estimates
New Delhi: Did diarrhoeal diseases rank third or seventh in India’s disease-burden ranking for 2017? Where do...
90% Of India’s Poorest Have No Health Insurance
New Delhi: Only about 10% of the poorest one-fifth of Indians in rural (10.2%) and urban India (9.8%) had any form of...
Maternity Benefits: What Centre Can Learn From Tamil Nadu, Odisha
New Delhi: Up to 88% of eligible women in the country did not receive benefits under the Centre’s maternity benefits...
India’s Vaccination Mission Narrows Focus To Meet March 2020 Target
New Delhi: Two in five infants nationwide did not receive complete immunisation, leaving them susceptible to disease. An...
Tuberculosis Survivors Seek Improved Access To Diagnostics, Better Drugs, And Respect
Nandita Venkatesan, 29, a tuberculosis survivor, advocate and journalist, reading out a statement at the first ever...