Page 5 - Public Health Care
Need for more
Relief for the poor is welcome, but only a beginning
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Microsoft says two employees have been diagnosed with coronavirus
Microsoft had asked workers who can to do their jobs from home through March 25, and that guidance remains unchanged based on the new cases.
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Sonia Gandhi urges Congress CMs to ensure effective response to Coronavirus
Gandhi pointed out that WHO had warned of severe shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), especially for frontline health workers
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Tamil Nadu's new Rs 2,857 cr health programme aims to meet global norms
Scheme aims to improve quality of care, strengthen management of non-communicable diseases and injuries, and reduce inequities in reproductive and child health services
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Our tier 2-3 cities not strong enough in public health services: K S Reddy
Even efficient urban and variable-quality rural health services will be unable to tackle coronavirus in case of a community epidemic, which will gain ground and possibly acquire greater virulence
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NITI Aayog to soon release a report on health system for new India
The report reveals India's health system as a story of multiple fragmentations
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India's healthcare system might struggle to keep pace by 2030, says report
Doctors are looking for multiple types of support to manage the complexity-with 85 per cent of doctors upgrading their own clinical skills
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Govt aims to raise health services expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025
In reply to a query during Question Hour, Harsh Vardhan said the public expenditure on health services is "continuously increasing"
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Are private players really the remedy to all that ails public healthcare?
From privatisation of roads to water bodies, to the killer Blueline buses of Delhi, most private ventures of the government have resoundingly failed
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The grim picture of backlog in India's primary healthcare sector
even a cursory look at infrastructure adequacy and human resource availability in primary health in India shows up a grim picture
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Public health care struggles for a cure
Recent incidents of lapses in private hospitals have raised questions over quality of healthcare
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