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A series on India's multi-dimensional healthcare crisis.

October 05, 2016 09:37 pm | Updated November 28, 2021 09:50 pm IST

CHENNAI, 26/07/2016 : For MALADY NATION SERIES : Patients being treated at the Rheumatology stepdown care ward under the Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai on Tuesday. Photo: B.Jothi Ramalingam

Remedying India’s healthcare colossus

When the last resort is the best

KALABURAGI-KARNATAKA; Couple of elderly women of Bendebembli village in Shahapur taluk in Shahapur taluk in Yadgir district helping Pregnant Devamma to deliver her female baby outside the locked Primary Health Centre in the village on sunday morning.

Not all are equal: Where health coverage lags behind

SITAPUR, UTTAR PRADESH, 16/07/2016: Khairabad Community Health Centre, MOTHER SECURITY SCHEME JSY: One of the beneficiaries of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) Mother Security Scheme) a Central Government scheme launched on 12 April 2005 by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi aimed to decrease the neo-natal and maternal deaths happening in the country by promoting institutional delivery of babies. This is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission(NRHM), an integrated cash assistance with delivery and post-delivery care.
Photo: Rajeev Bhatt

Labour pain: Sitapur’s maternity racket

Antimicrobial resistance: clear and present danger

MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, 04/08/2016: Chemist shows redline antibiotics.
Photo: Vivek Bendre

Losing ground in the war on superbugs

CHENNAI, 17/06/2014: Beneficiaries standing in queue to register for the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme at Collectorate Colony ub Aminjikarai, Chennai on Tuesday.
Photo: M. Vedhan

Regulating India’s regressive health insurance

A beneficiary of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme is undergoing treatment at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai. Photo: B. Jothi Ramalingam

Gaping holes in the safety net

Patients undergoing treatment at the Malaria Department in Sir Ronald Ross Institute for Tropical Diseases in Hyderabad on March 23, 2005.
Photo: K. Ramesh Babu

When policy attention is the best remedy

VAISHALI, BIHAR :09/08/2016: A suffering from Kala-azar & HIV being treated by MFS doctors at Hajipur Sadar Hospital in Vaishali district of Bihar, on 09/08/2016. Photo: Ranjeet Kumar

Battling the poverty-parasite menace

A technician conducts blood sugar test. File photo

Personal and public choices eroding health

Taxi driver Mohammad Hanif before (left) and after bariatric surgery. Photo: Vijay Kumar Bajaj

When a sedentary lifestyle turns deadly

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