National Health Mission

An ambulance arrives as people stand at the entrance of the emergency department of a government-run hospital in New Delhi

Who Is Paying for India’s Healthcare?

Nivedita Rao 14/04/2018

An overwhelming 70% of healthcare expenses in India are...

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Top Body of National Health Mission Has Quietly Become an All-Bureaucrat Affair

Oommen C. Kurian 19/03/2018

The latest meeting of the Mission Steering Group was...

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Budget Breaks on Healthcare: More Cover Without Coverage

Tejal Barai-Jaitly and Tanika Godbole 08/02/2018

The new health insurance proposal opens the government’s purse...

An ambulance arrives as people stand at the entrance of the emergency department of a government-run hospital in New Delhi, November 22, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Saumya Khandelwal

Modi Government Cuts Planned Funding for National Health Mission By Almost 20%

Aditya Kalra and Tommy Wilkes 23/11/2017

The federal finance ministry in August renewed the National...

“We’ve brought down the total fertility rate to 2.2. Of course there’s still a few states which need to come to that.” Credit: Reuters

India’s Health Story Is One of ‘Nations Within a Nation,’ Says New Study

Anoo Bhuyan 14/11/2017

Report looks at 26 years of health data in...

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An Inadequate and Misdirected Health Budget

Sourindra Mohan Ghosh and Imrana Qadeer 08/02/2017

The Budget allocation for the health sector is not...

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Three Years On, the Modi Government Still Has Gaping Holes in its Social Policy

Yamini Aiyar 01/02/2017

Despite emphasis on 'empowerment' over 'entitlements', which comes with...