Years of neglect of public health system, profiteering by private hospitals saw an increase in out-of-pocket healthcare spending that may destroy the fledgling Indian middle class. Read more »
The need of the hour is a socio-legal acknowledgement of the work done by gig and platform workers and accountability to the state and platform companies towards ensuring labour rights. Read more »
The roadmap provided by the NITI Aayog favours privatisation of healthcare, but the Covid-19 pandemic highlights the need for a robust public health system. Read more »
Insurance schemes won’t help the poor; India needs a robust public health system that offers free diagnostics and medicines. Read more »
India must strive for 10 million Covid-19 vaccinations per day to cover its 1.4 billion population in four months. Read more »
The poor gets government care and the rich can afford private hospitals; the vulnerable section is the uninsured 36 crore white-collar employees or self-employed people. Read more »
India needs to shed the profit logic that has dominated the sector in the pre Covid-19 period and reconstruct public health system. Read more »
Positive mental health of students can only be achieved through caring and accepting children as they are. Read more »
Learn from mistakes, adopt best practices, and start building public health infrastructure to tame Covid-19 third wave as well as future outbreaks. Read more »
Dr Aruna Sharma’s inaugural address in the first episode of Delhi Dialogues emphasised the need for deliberations and wider consultations in tackling the third wave of Covid-19. Read more »