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Price of Essential Medicines Will Go Up 10% From April. What Will Be Affected?

Banjot Kaur 28/03/2022

Drugs, including those on this list, have been among...

A paramedic distributes free medicine provided by the government to patients inside a ward at RGGGH in Chennai

NFHS-5 Data Reveals India’s Steady But Slow Universal Health Cover Progress

Arun Kumar Tiwari 24/12/2020

Since NFHS-4 in 2015, coverage has increased in all...

FILE PHOTO: An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), depicts the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Government Measures for Coronavirus Control Leave the Poor High and Dry

Jyotsna Singh 20/03/2020

The health ministry's plans will work only for those...

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The ‘Inequality of Access’ Across India

Deepanshu Mohan, Richa Sekhani and Serene Vaid 05/09/2018

At this point, each state across India remains affected...

The Government General Hospital, Chennai. Tamil Nadu introduced a free medicines model in 1995 consisting of highly a effective system of drug procurement, quality checks and supply and distribution centred on government hospitals. Credit: SwiftRakesh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Whatever Happened to India’s National Free Medicines Scheme?

Chhaya Pachauli 27/03/2018

Nearly 67% of India’s out-of-pocket expenditure on health is...

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The Story of a Pioneer Who Sought to Quantify Inequality in India

University of Cambridge 13/07/2017

As economic growth and rising inequality take centre stage,...

Although India depends on data from sample surveys for tracking health parameters, there is a need to improve civil registration and vital statistics systems. Credit: cdcglobal/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Why It’s a Challenge To Make Quick Sense of India’s Health Data

Oommen C. Kurian 11/01/2017

Even when several government departments and ministries collect data...