Healthcare

FILE PHOTO: Medical staff with protective clothing are seen inside a ward specialised in receiving any person who may have been infected with coronavirus, at the Rajiv Ghandhi Government General hospital in Chennai

By Neglecting Public Health, Govts in India Have Abandoned Their Responsibility

V. Gopala Gowda and Gunjan Jena 19/08/2020

The coronavirus crisis has exposed the weaknesses in the...

Blood sample camp for plasma donation in Mumbai

Nearly 200 Doctors in India Have Succumbed to COVID-19 So Far: IMA

"Further disturbing are the reports that state that the...

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Health Care Has a Huge Environmental Footprint. This Is a Matter of Ethics.

Anthony Capon, Arunima Malik, David Pencheon, Helga Weisz and Manfred Lenzen 27/07/2020

The purchasing power of health care should be harnessed...

FILE PHOTO: Men wearing protective masks walk inside the premises of a hospital where a special ward has been set up for the coronavirus disease in Mumbai

Mumbai Runs Out of Hospital Beds as COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise

Abhirup Roy, Devjyot Ghoshal and Aditya Kalra 25/05/2020

The city also does not have enough staff to...

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What We Know About Whom COVID-19 Kills

Eleanor Cummins 08/05/2020

In the US, the disease has killed a disproportionate...

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Why Bonded Service for Doctors Has Seen Only Limited Success

Surabhi Dharmadhikari, Sweta Dubey and Siddhesh Zadey 01/05/2020

Bonded government-medical service requires graduates of government-run medical institutes...

Outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in El Salvador

We Need a List of Essential Workers Before the Next Pandemic Hits

Dr Samir Malhotra 16/04/2020

Similar to the list of essential medicines, such a...