While demonetisation may now be the predominant feature of the Modi administration, – provoking widespread controversy and criticism – the Indian government under Modi has made some degree of progress in terms of health care. A number of policies and initiatives have been in place in the attempt to improve healthcare in India. Foremost amongst […]
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A social media photo campaign has aimed to raise awareness of mental health disorders and needs in India. The event was organised by the Harvard US-India Initiative. Participants were invited to photograph themselves carrying placards emblazoned with mental health awareness messages and post them online with the hashtag #IndiaStopTheStigma. The campaign speaks to an issue that
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Every year, 5.9 million children die before reaching the age of five. Of these, 1.5 million lose their lives to pneumonia and diarrhoea. As shown in a revealing new report, India has more of these deaths than any other country. On November 11, the 2016 Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report was published by the International
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The Modi administration has pledged massive reforms to healthcare, with its National Health Policy (NHP) being perhaps one of the most ambitious healthcare projects in the world. However, providing adequate healthcare to a population as large as India’s calls for a phenomenal budget. The results of the NHP programme, as well as the Swachh Bharat
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A market is consistently growing in India for tourists travelling from other nations to take advantage of India’s medical services. Dubbed “medical tourism”, a large number of those travelling to India are from a number of African countries. It is often the case in many African nations that hospitals are ill equipped to deal with
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“We can now safely say that we can end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.” Such were the bold words of Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda during an event to mark World AIDS Day on December 1. Nadda said that India had defied predictions from “around two decades ago” that it would be “the AIDS
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A new health insurance scheme is set to be approved within the month by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI). This policy, launched by public sector New India Insurance Company Ltd, will focus on providing healthcare to high net-worth individuals. The policy aims to be one of the more broad reaching insurance
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Heart conditions are on the rise in India. Over the last few decades, lifestyles have changed and become more sedentary as a result of industrialisation and the rapid growth of the IT industry. Consequently, surgeries such as angioplasties – which involves the widening of an artery or vein to clear blockages using coronary stents –
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For the last year, global attention has been fixated on the mosquito-borne Zika virus. India has had a degree of panic regarding the disease, justifiably so as the strain of mosquito responsible for spreading the virus thrives in the geographical conditions present in India. Despite this the Zika virus has not yet proven to be
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India holds a disproportionate percentage of the world’s new cases, and deaths associated with tuberculosis (TB). In 2015 India accounted for 2.8 million cases of the world’s total 8 million, with a similar percentage of deaths associated with the disease — 480,000 of a total of roughly 2 million. Despite attempts in the past few
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