Planning Commission to rethink ‘corporatised healthcare’ proposal after...
The Planning Commission’s intention to corporatise healthcare didn’t go down well with people – particularly health activists – and now they’re reconsidering the draft. Deputy Chairman Montek Ahluwalia...
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Health regulators to monitor quality of hospital services?
Think doctors and hospitals fleece you after providing bad service? The Planning Commission’s proposal to set up state-based and central health regulators looks to change that. “There is need for much...
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PM asks Health Ministry and Planning Commission to sort out their differences
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia to sort out their differences over the planning and formulation of...
View ArticleDo you support the Planning Commission’s move to train quacks?
In another controversial move that’s sure to aggravate health activists and the ministry alike the Planning Commission has proposed to train registered medical practitioners or quacks, to ensure...
View ArticleIll health pushes 39 million Indian’s into poverty: Health Minister
The Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad, explained exactly why our country is still grappling with poverty. As per a WHO report, ill health pushes 39 million Indians to poverty every year and around 30...
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Bring back the family physician: Dr Santanu Chattopadhyay
India’s healthcare system is heavily skewed towards tertiary services which mean that primary healthcare gets neglected. General practitioners and friendly neighborhood family doctors are becoming an...
View ArticleWorld Bank and Planning Commission to analyse medicine use for better...
In a bid to improve provision of healthcare services, a study on responsible use of medicines and consensus-building on drug policy will be undertaken, under the aegis of the World Bank and the...
View ArticleHeckled by activists, Mamata and Mitra take ill
West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra, who was heckled by SFI activists, was on Tuesday evening hospitalised after he complained of chest pain, a doctor at AIIMS said. ‘He was admitted at 7.30 p.m....
View ArticleMamata Banerjee’s condition stable now
CM Mamata Banerjee, who was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday, was reportedly stable now. A six-member medical team under orthopaedic Dr S Das are taking care of her. The medical release from Belle...
View ArticleMamata Banerjee discharged from hospital
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was released on Saturday night from a private nursing home here, but the doctors advised her to take two weeks’ rest. Banerjee was admitted to the nursing...
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