Health Issues India has written at length about the many inadequacies of India’s healthcare system. They are perhaps most aptly summarised by Forbes, writing “In India, public health care is free, yet years of under-investment in public health means that facilities are also grossly understaffed and under-equipped. The country also has a massive resource gap […]
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In recent months, researchers in India have made strides towards developing mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP) – the world’s first leprosy vaccine. The vaccine was developed by founder-director of the National Institute of Immunology (NII) Professor Gursaran Prasad Talwar and has been approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI). It has been suggested that
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The unexpected victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election has sent shockwaves reverberating throughout the world – but it has been suggested by some that his win is good news for Indian drugmakers. The President elect’s rhetoric on the campaign trail was often inflammatory and controversial. It included blaming India and China for
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Would you want to be treated by a doctor who wasn’t qualified? Most, if not all, people would surely respond ‘no.’ Doctors have a considerable degree of power over their patients. To vest this power in somebody with no formal medical training would be a hugely alarming prospect for the majority of people. And yet,
Train quacks to make up for India’s doctor shortage; proposal divides medical community Read More »
The woman who used to be India’s most senior health bureaucrat is clearly not planning on a quiet retirement. In the latest of her highly controversial opinion pieces for The Hindu, Sujatha Rao says that, “many medical colleges are producing quacks. The tragedy is that we all know about it.” The former Secretary Health &
India’s medical colleges are producing quacks say ex-Secretary Health Read More »
One blogger thinks that the current price controls might because they discourage innovation. Politics seems to have stalled government consideration of the issue.
Do price controls threaten the Indian pharma industry? Read More »
This is a surprising report in the new Sunday Guardian
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