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Child healthcare needs a boost

Recent figures reveal a huge gap in child healthcare in India, at a time when experts warn of the vulnerabilities of young people to COVID-19 in a looming third wave. Experts expressed misgivings about a severe deficit in child healthcare at primary health centres and community health centres. Per data shared by a parliamentary standing …

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Cancer in India: A snapshot of the threat

India observes World Cancer Day 2021 in far from normal circumstances. The raging COVID-19 pandemic has threatened to obscure the plethora of other diseases India and the world at large grapples with. Awareness events such as World Cancer Day serve to shine a light on the far-reaching impact of cancer in India, which has emerged …

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Rural Gujarat still struggles with doctor shortages

In the state of Gujarat, recruiting doctors to fill positions in government hospitals remains a challenge – with rural Gujarat bearing the brunt.  In 2018 and 2019, the state government recruited 2,228 graduates of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) courses. However, a mere fourteen percent of them – translating to just 321 medicos …

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Union Budget: The main takeaways for health

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented India’s 2020 Union Budget over the weekend, her second. Whilst it has won praise from Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, some in the healthcare sector have expressed dissatisfaction.  How much did the Union Budget allocate the health sector? Among the main takeaways of the 2020 Union Budget for …

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Strict action against absentee doctors in Kerala

Doctors who are absent without leave in Kerala have been served an ultimatum: return to work, or face termination.  The instruction was delivered by state health minister K. K. Shailaja earlier this week, as she exhorted absentee medicos in the state to resume their posts by Sunday or else be fired. This warning was issued …

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Cancer infrastructure needs an upgrade

Cancer is one of the leading threats to public health in India. An estimated 2.25 million people live with the disease in the country, with more than 1.15 million new cases registered and an estimated 784,821 deaths recorded last year. Despite this, the country’s cancer infrastructure is sorely lacking – as phrased by a parliamentary …

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Specialist doctor recruitment drive in Karnataka

The state health and family welfare department in Karnataka is embarking on a recruitment drive to fill almost a thousand vacant specialist doctor positions in the state.  Karnataka has just one doctor for every 13,556 people, versus the national average of one doctor for 10,926 people and World Health Organization recommendations of one for every …

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Doctor-patient ratio improves but still far from ideal

India’s doctor-patient ratio has improved according to the National Health Profile, 2019. However, the ratio still does not measure up to World Health Organization (WHO) norms of one doctor for every thousand people.  According to the data, collated by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI), there is one allopathic doctor for every 10,926 people …

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Kerala doctors to work on boosting access to health in rural areas

The Kerala chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) is working to expand access to healthcare in rural areas of the state.  Around sixty percent of doctors in India work in urban areas, despite seventy percent of the population living in rural areas. Although Kerala is one of the most highly-ranked states on health parameters …

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