Healthcare
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Letter to Principal Secretary, Health and District COVID Control Authority: COVID-19 at Prathima Medical College, Karimnagar
Please redress the grievance of basic facilities for health workers at Prathima Medical College, Karimnagar and streamline the system on a war footing. Please counsel our young health workers so that they feel confident.
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Treatment in Private Hospital on Public Money Possible but no Relief if Private Transport Used
Dr Sandeep Pandey, Surabhi Agarwal, Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant | All the people who have had to pay earlier for their return to their homes either on government or private transportation should be given refunds. Likewise, all those who had to pay for COVID-19 testing in private laboratories should be given refunds.
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निजी अस्पताल में सरकारी पैसे से इलाज की छूट लेकिन निजी परिवहन से यात्रा करने पर सरकारी लाभ से वंचित
सुरभि अग्रवाल, शोभा शुक्ल, बाॅबी रमाकांत व संदीप पाण्डेय | जो लोग दैनिक मजदूरी कर के अपना जीवन यापन करते हैं, सरकार उनकी वास्तविकता से कितनी अनभिज्ञ है इस बात का अंदाजा इसी से लगाया जा सकता है कि सरकार द्वारा घोषित तालाबंदी ने समाज के इस बड़े वर्ग के दृष्टिकोण को मद्देनजर लिया ही…
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सरकार के कोरोना वायरस महामारी से निपटने में अक्षमता के लिए उच्च-पदों पर आसीन लोगों को जवाबदेह ठहराया जाए
जैसे-जैसे पिछले 3 माह बीते हैं यह उतना ही स्पष्ट होता जा रहा है कि कोरोना वायरस महामारी को रोकने में सरकार लगभग हर मापदण्ड पर असफल रही है. न केवल सरकार, कोरोनावायरस संक्रमण के तेजी से बढ़ते फैलाव को रोकने में असमर्थ रही है बल्कि उसके ही कारण देश के अधिकाँश लोगों को संभवतः…
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The Government’s Mishandling Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Must Have Consequences For Those In Its Highest Offices
These oversights indicate the extent to which the powerful are disconnected from the ground realities of our country and point to the dire need for the decentralisation of power and much greater representation of people from marginalised sections of society in public offices.
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How Can Privatisation and Foreign Direct Investment Possibly Make Us a Self-Reliant Nation?
Dr Sandeep Pandey, Surabhi Agarwal, Bobby Ramakant | Self-reliance can only be achieved through policy changes which deprioritise the interests of multinational corporations and adopt a people-centric, decentralised approach to industrialisation that improves local economies, drives job growth and supports public research and innovation.
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Desperate Times Call for Radical Measures: COVID-19 and the Need for the Immediate Nationalisation of the Indian Healthcare Sector
Asmita Verma, Surabhi Agarwal and Bobby Ramakant | What could be a better way to scale up testing and increase hospitalization capacity and access in the country than to nationalise the private health sector? This would be far more effective than trying to negotiate pricing caps with the profit-seeking lobby of private healthcare.
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Will Alcohol and Tobacco Use Jeopardize the Response to COVID-19?
Bobby Ramakant, Shobha Shukla and Sandeep Pandey | The government of India (and all other state governments) needs to review the merits of the decision of opening tobacco and alcohol shops. Among the most important and corrective political decisions would be the one to ban tobacco and alcohol altogether. Citizens need to be reassured that…
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Is Private Health ‘Industry’ a Big Hurdle in Containing COVID-19?
Bobby Ramakant, Shobha Shukla and Sandeep Pandey | Nationalizing health services is among the most important corrective political actions which governments can take in the wake of this pandemic. But health security for everyone can only come when we address inequalities and injustices in every other sector.
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Need for Immediate Nationalisation of Health Services
Bobby Ramakant, Sandeep Pandey and Surabhi Agarwal | If patients with serious aliments other than COVID-19 are not given timely lifesaving healthcare, then we need to brace ourselves for a more worrying and unfortunate situation of multiple health and humanitarian crises.
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Niti Aayog Must Stop Plan to Privatise Public Health
One cannot ignore the fact the private players are there only so long as profits are to be made. Will these private players continue to play their role in so-called ‘public private partnerships’ if cost-benefit ratio is not in their interest?
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जन-स्वास्थ्य का निजीकरण बंद करे नीति आयोग
राजनीतिक इच्छा शक्ति के अभाव में, स्वास्थ्य जैसी मौलिक आवश्यकता पर खर्च अनेक गुणा बढ़ाने के बजाये, सरकारी स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं की कमियों को दूर करने के लिए, निजीकरण का रास्ता सुझाया जा रहा है।