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Need of the hour
1 Jan 2021 10:57 PM ISTIn the pursuit of profit-making, we have drifted away from our real goals in health — it is time to change our priorities
Actions rather than thoughts
18 Jun 2020 10:53 PM ISTAside from superficial displays of concern and respect, our healthcare workers require urgent Government intervention to ensure they their safety and...
Loud and clear
4 Jun 2020 8:35 PM ISTThe current pandemic and adverse climate disasters that continue to follow are indicators that the healthcare and safety of humanity is inextricably...
Hunger games
31 May 2020 10:31 PM ISTWith the crippling economic effects of the lockdown and barely sufficient ration provided by the PDS system, India’s most vulnerable sections are...
Heeding the clarion call
12 May 2020 11:41 PM ISTThe current pandemic has revealed major gaps in India’s healthcare system — requiring dedicated effort to shore up shortfalls in the healthcare budget
Time for robust healthcare
30 March 2020 8:51 PM ISTAlongside an economic stimulus package, the Indian Government’s COVID-19 response must include measures to ensure better health and nutrition outcomes...
Drawing a line
8 March 2020 8:43 PM ISTImpeding the work of healthcare providers by violence is a crime against humanity
Unclear intentions
20 Jan 2020 8:07 PM ISTPrime Minister Modi’s stance on unethical marketing practices by pharma companies sends mixed signals given government reluctance to institute uniform...
Differing priorities
12 Jan 2020 7:59 PM ISTPrivatisation of district hospitals under NITI Aayog proposal is not the ideal solution for the problem of providing free universal healthcare
Deplorable actions
26 Dec 2019 9:57 PM ISTPolice brutality inside the Mangaluru hospital paints the administration in poor light
Medicine: Science, not belief
15 Dec 2019 9:07 PM ISTPolitical and scientific bodies should negate superstitious beliefs hovering in the Indian society and propagate scientific as well medical awareness
Violence in peacetime
26 Nov 2019 8:54 PM ISTViolence adversely impacts any society’s public health and must be pacified by neutralising the factors that contribute to its eruption