A lot of the research conducted by the team at Health Issues India has revolved around carrying out semi-structured, in-depth interviews with policymakers and bureaucrats who are a part of the landscape of the healthcare sector in India. Over the last year, a lot of stakeholders have expressed their concerns about the “Make in India” concept …
According to the WHO, the number of cancer cases in India will multiply five times by the year 2025. There is also a severe lack of qualified oncologists in the country with only one oncologist per 2000 patients. Health Issues India has been tracking this alarming news over the past few months. A recent internal …
The floodwaters in Chennai have now receded but has left behind a huge urban disaster. Hundreds have been killed, many more are still missing and thousands have been displaced. Now, the city has to fight the threat of infectious diseases as sewage and uncleared garbage lies around the streets waiting to be cleared. This article in …
Budget cuts are threatening to of India’s key health initiatives—the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) and the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). A total of 2·1 million people in India are HIV positive and about 1·2 million new cases of tuberculosis are diagnosed every year. For a decade, under the NACP the government has …
Budget cuts threaten AIDS and tuberculosis control in India – Lancet Read More »
“Fifty basic essential generic drugs address 75% of the healthcare needs of the majority, and we plan to make these available free to everyone, from birth to death,” Union health minister Harsh Vardhan told HT. The health ministry in trying to speed up the free generic drug programme which will ultimately aim to provide 348 …
Health Minister to speed up plans to give essential generic drugs for free Read More »
An interesting chart in Forbes depicts how much a few countries around the world spend on health care. India spends four percent of its GDP on health according to this chart. Of this four percent, the government spending is only 31 percent. At 60 per cent, India has one of the highest out-of-pocket health care …
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