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#Elections2017: More Wasted Children, Anaemic Men, Women Than Before...
Patients queue up outside the out-patient department at the Civil Hospital in Tarn Taran, 25 km south of Amritsar....
#Elections2017: UP Spends Least On Health, Reflects In Its Ill-Health
With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of...
Down To The District: The Health Of 5 States Going To Polls
Seven-month-old Deepak, who weighs 4 kg and suffers from severe malnutrition, lies on a bed in a Nutritional...
India Reduces Baby Deaths But Still Hasn’t Met 2012 Targets
First, the good news: 37 babies died for every 1,000 that were born in 2015, two better than the government’s...
Over A Decade, 14-Fold Increase In Proportion Of Indians With Health Insurance
Beneficiaries enroll themselves for the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Andhra Pradesh. No more than 1% of India’s...
4 Indicators Of India's Cashless Growth -- And Hurdles To Future Expansion
As India's government--fronted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account--announced a slew of incentives to...
14,474 Cases Of HIV Through Blood Transfusion, But Govt Denies Crisis
A laboratory assistant examines a blood sample in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri. Over the last seven years,...
In Last Moments Of Life, Indian Women Less Likely To Get Medical Attention
More Indian men are likely to be admitted to hospital during the last moments of life than women--62.5% to 37.5%--a...
