Home > Dr. Arun Mitra
Unify pharmaceuticals pricing
4 May 2018 9:12 PM ISTThere is an urgent need to introduce the ‘one drug – one name – one price’ formula and prevent unnecessary fraudulence.
End nuclear muscle-flexing
27 April 2018 6:13 PM ISTVoices must be raised to end the nuclear arms race as vital resources are being diverted from preliminary development.
Myths around diseases
13 April 2018 10:23 PM ISTThere is a dire need to promote scientific approach to health and healthcare services
From violence to care
30 March 2018 9:18 PM ISTThere is an urgent need to divert fund from armament to focus on the alleviation of public healthcare in our country
For affordable drugs
23 Feb 2018 9:12 PM ISTThere must be a policy change for price mechanism to cover medicine, consumable and surgical devices
Scrutinise medical education
16 Feb 2018 7:01 PM ISTPrivatisation has ruined the quality of medical colleges—government intervention is essential to rejuvenate healthcare
Cap drug pricing too
11 Feb 2018 9:06 PM ISTWhile stent pricing has been regulated, the initiative should be extended to include all pharmaceuticals
Scientific health education
28 Jan 2018 9:58 PM ISTMyths about health and healing are increasingly proving to be detrimental
Complexities of corporatisation
19 Jan 2018 9:54 PM ISTHealthcare corporatisation excludes majority of the population and government is further unable to compel private hospitals to comply with norms
Dangerous mixing of medicine
14 Jan 2018 8:29 PM ISTAYUSH and modern medicine have distinct approaches and methods of practice, they cannot be merged.
Promote health, not nuclear weapons
5 Jan 2018 8:02 PM ISTThe world is over-armed while peace remains under-funded
Making available cheap medicines
29 Dec 2017 8:55 PM ISTThere needs to be a one drug one price formula. In fact, any formulation once labeled as medicine becomes essential. So the price of all drugs should...