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The verdict on Mohalla Clinics

Political difficulties have stalled the rollout of the Delhi government’s Mohalla Clinics initiative to expand access to healthcare for the capital’s citizens, according to a new report.  The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came to power in the national capital in 2015 on the back of a manifesto which included a pledge to establish 900 primary …

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Essential medicines: WHO updates list

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its lists of essential medicines and diagnostics in a bid to expand access to affordable treatments for individuals worldwide.  WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asserted in a statement that “around the world, more than 150 countries use WHO’s Essential Medicines List to guide decisions about which medicines represent …

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Public health is in crisis in Bihar. Why isn’t it spending health funds?

The Centre issued Rs 88.5 crore to the Bihar state government in the last fiscal year to strengthen its public health system. Astonishingly, the state government spent less than one-third of it. The news comes at a time when the public health infrastructure in the state is being heavily scrutinised and castigated in many quarters …

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Centre again invites Delhi to join Ayushman Bharat

The Centre has once again exhorted the AAP government in Delhi to join its flagship healthcare scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) – better known as ‘Ayushman Bharat’.  The tussle between the two governments over their respective healthcare schemes – the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat and Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics – has often given the …

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Will the Delhi government and the Centre meet in the middle on health?

After a protracted battle of one-upmanship over competing health models, the Delhi government and the Centre could arrive at a middle ground. In an unprecedented gesture, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday for the first time since the general election to seek collaboration in Yamuna water conservation and state’s health …

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President Kovind praises Ayushman Bharat

President Ram Nath Kovind has praised the Centre’s flagship health insurance initiative Ayushman Bharat, touting the number of people who have availed the benefits of the scheme thus far. During an address before a joint parliamentary session, President Kovind said the scheme had made a significant contribution to reducing the catastrophic out-of-pocket spending on health …

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Kerala corrects the record on Ayushman Bharat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted the Kerala state government to implement its healthcare initiative, Ayushman Bharat. But the state has insisted on correcting the record. “Kerala is part of Ayushman Bharat scheme,” asserted the state’s Health Minister K. K. Shailaja. “An MoU [memorandum of understanding] was signed on November 2, 2018, and measures have already …

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Mohalla Clinics vs. Ayushman Bharat: The war over health models

After a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has shifted its focus to Delhi, which goes to polls in a year. Riding on a saffron surge across the Hindi heartland, the BJP has decided to combat its biggest adversary in the state, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), with its development policies. Surprisingly, …

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Vardhan reaches out to holdout states on Ayushman Bharat

The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr Harsh Vardhan, has reached out to the states where the Centre’s flagship healthcare scheme has yet to be implemented, exhorting them to do so. Vardhan has made strengthening the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), popularly known as ‘Ayushman Bharat’, a top priority during his second …

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Ayushman Bharat: The coming expansion

The BJP’s agenda, as outlined in its manifesto for this year’s Lok Sabha polls, was vindicated with a sweeping electoral victory – and the Prime Minister did not exclude the subject of health or his flagship Ayushman Bharat from his victory speech after the results were declared. “The victory, he said, was not his, but …

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