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The creeping privatisation of India’s already inadequate public health system continues. Health minister Harsh Vardhan has stopped pretending that there are no plans to increase payments to private hospitals under the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme. The central government has now (...)
The Indian state must commit to at least some semblance of healthcare for all.
Social security for informal workers has taken centre-stage due to recent budget announcements. While some of the announcements are admirable – such as monthly pensions for workers over 60 – a major gap in social (...)
Introduction of the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), a catastrophic insurance scheme to cover 10,890,000 households in the latest budget, is another case of social insurance Modi-style.
The coverage is for an amount of Rs 500,000 per family for secondary and tertiary care. Covered (...)
There is no available reason to believe that a national level roll-out of insurance under the proposed NHPS will have any less of the issues that have plagued state schemes.
The government’s new National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) is being rolled out rapidly by the NITI Aayog. It is (...)
How much will the government’s health insurance scheme cost? What is the timeline for its roll out? What are the safeguards against private sector influence and exploitation? At s recent press conference the Ministry of Health had nothing coherent to say. Only the government think tank NITI (...)
While the government claims it “will bring healthcare system closer to the homes of people,” it hopes to do this through the private sector, not by strengthening the public health system.
Health is being hailed as the biggest winner of Budget 2018, but a cursory look at the numbers shows that (...)
The government’s plans for Universal Health Care insurance are badly planned and underfunded. These ambitious reforms should improve public health systems. Instead, they risk to support the development of the private health system, without guarantees on quality of service for the poor majority. (...)
Over 300 scientists and health defenders from 36 countries condemn dangerous misinformation being disseminated in India by asbestos industry organizations.
In a letter released today, over 200 scientists and over 100 labour and health organizations from 36 countries strongly condemned efforts (...)
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Seher is a service program of Bapu Trust, a psychotherapy program that provides counselling services with feminist sensitivities and sensibilities to deal with an emotional distress. Individuals with long standing depression, same-sex preference or orientation (5 gay men and (...)
Dr. Binayak Sen and Dr. Ilina Sen recently visited Kolkata responding to an initiative taken by People’s Health. They addressed the Calcutta press at Calcutta Press Club on 29th May. Dr. Binayak Sen’s two year long unlawful detention in a Chattisgarh jail ended on 25th May. “I want to resume my (...)
The World Health Organization, WHO, estimates occupational health risks as the tenth leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The World Health Report 2002 of WHO informs that occupational risk factors account globally for a number of morbid conditions, including 37 percent back pain, 16 (...)
In the course of a labour struggle in Baba Ramdev’s Divyajyoti Pharmacy, Brinda Karat announced that human and animal bones were being used in the medicines produced in Ramdev’s factory. This dramatic revelation of the skeletons (literally) in Baba’s cupboard did not have the effect of (...)
Following the June 2001 “Call to Action” at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, in September 2003 the WHO, UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria launched the “3-by-5” initiative or treat 3 million people living with HIV/AIDS by 2005. Lee Jong-Wook, the (...)
In the medical discourse in India, the concern for violence has been conspicuous by its virtual absence. In much of the medical research, discussion, and publications, the mention of the victims and survivors of violence, their special medical needs and rehabilitation is rare. This is despite (...)
Revised version of the paper presented at the symposium on “Reforming India’s social sector: Strategies and prospects” organised by Department of Economics, Mumbai University, as a part of its Platinum Jubilee Celebration, at Indian Merchant Chambers on April 16-17, 1998.
There are two major (...)
Introduction: India’s health care service system is very complex. This is compounded by inadequacy of reliable and consistent data on services, particularly on the services provided by the private sector. Indeed, till mid-1980s, there had been scanty attention paid to documenting information (...)
This is the key note addresses at the Conference on “Towards people centred development”, for the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, November 1 to 4, 1996.*
In last three decades the campaigns on health issues have come to occupy a rightful place (...)
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