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With Inadequate Health Infrastructure, Can Ayushman Bharat Really Work?

Shailender Kumar Hooda 26/11/2018

An uncritical promotion of privatisation of healthcare at the...

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NHPS May Create More Roadblocks Than Easier Access to Healthcare for Poor

Rajalakshmi Ram Prakash 24/11/2018

The government’s health insurance scheme can marginalise and exclude...

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Who Is Paying for India’s Healthcare?

Nivedita Rao 14/04/2018

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

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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Budget 2018: India’s Healthcare System Needs More Money and an Urgent Overhaul

Dipa Sinha 28/01/2018

This is the last full budget of the present...