Tag: Healthcare
Pharma companies to cut prices of news drugs by 51% to access Chinese market
Patients will only need to pay a small fraction of the cost of these drugs as the lion’s share of the bill will be footed by China’s $373 billion national medical insurance fund.
Lancet forms panel led by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, others for India’s universal health coverage
The aim of the initiative is to ‘harness citizens’ engagement to address the long-standing need for India to move towards genuine Universal Health Care’.
Covid pandemic has shown India the utility of smaller facilities over mega hospitals
In 'Till We Win', public health expert Chadrakant Lahariya, scientist Gagandeep Kang and AIIMS director Randeep Guleria write that Covid has shown the link between India’s health and economy.
India needs to ensure mothers’ higher education to eradicate child malnutrition, study says
The study by Indian Council for Research on International Relations found that mortality and nutritional security are closely interlinked.
Investing in public health most important lesson of Covid pandemic, says WHO chief scientist
Addressing the 15th JRD Tata Memorial Oration, Soumya Swaminathan highlighted the impact of the pandemic on education, violence against women, reproductive health and services.
Breathe new life into public health. Far too many Indians rely on Baba Ramdev, Akshay Kumar
A marginal patient opts for private healthcare over govt services the moment it becomes affordable, despite the distrust. The goal should be to reverse this.
More than half of France in red zone, hospitals in Jakarta lack capacity & other Covid news
As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor could give Trump an edge in US presidential election
Ginsburg’s death Friday gives the president and his Republican allies an opening to leave a transformational mark on a court already shaped by two Trump appointments.
Govt data shows how access to healthcare got disrupted for women and children in lockdown
HMIS data shows contraception, abortion services & child immunisation against BCG and polio were badly hit during April-June this year, compared to the same period last year.
Off The Cuff with Dr. Prathap C. Reddy
On #ThePrintOTC with Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta, Dr Prathap C. Reddy, founder of Apollo Hospitals told talked about how Apollo Hospitals manage Covid-19 patients, why India needs to expand its health care workforce and why hospitals should not be held guilty for making profits.