Healthcare

Covid-19

What Covid-19 Taught Us About Antibiotics Misuse

The unchecked use of antibiotics increases the odds of a pandemic in which infections are resistant to the available stock of antimicrobials.
▶11-Sep-2023
Kamini Walia
Book
Book Review

AIIMS and the Failure of Imagining Healthcare

The pursuit of 'excellence' at AIIMS has become a rush towards greater specialisation, foiling the institute's founding mandate to produce doctors to serve India's masses.
▶19-Jan-2022
George Thomas

Can India’s Flagship Public Health Insurance Scheme Do What it Promises?

PMJAY promised to fix India's patchy heathcare coverage and reduce hospitalisation costs for the poor. Four years into its existence, the scheme needs to pause expansion, learn, and consolidate.
▶15-Dec-2021
Mayur Trivedi

In Dubious Battle: Ramdev versus the Indian Medical Association

The Ramdev-IMA skirmish is more of a turf war based on perceived insults, than about upholding science or attacking obscurantism. It is a sideshow of a fake quarrel that has distracted us again from…
▶23-Jun-2021
Sanjay Nagral

Mumbai’s Peripheral Hospitals in the First Wave of Covid-19

Mumbai’s peripheral hospitals that form the spine of multi-speciality care for the city’s suburban population coped well with the demands unleashed by the first wave of Covid-19, which helped prepare…
▶21-Jun-2021
CEHAT
Covid-19

Is the Pandemic the Wake-up Call We Need on the Drug Regulatory Process?

Sometimes it is the power of lobbies rather than Science that is now driving approval of new drugs, as seen in the questionable clearance to a few Covid-19 drugs; people end up willing to pay…
▶19-May-2021
Dinesh Thakur
Covid-19

Vaccine Conundrums

The government lost an opportunity to dampen the second wave but it should at least protect us from the third wave. For that it needs to revise its ‘liberalised’ vaccine policy, which with its array…
▶13-May-2021
K Sujatha Rao
Covid-19

Band-Aids for Bullet Wounds

The brutal advent of Covid-19’s second wave in India was not unforeseen. But claims of an ‘Indian exceptionalism’ lulled politician, policymakers, and the public into complacency.
▶29-Apr-2021
Chandrakant Lahariya