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.
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 people’s interests matter most.
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.
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.
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?
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।
Privatisation can only lead to superficial improvements, while inevitably reducing access.
Fixing Minimum and Maximum Income Bars is Vital for Equitable Society Government doctors (and other employees) demanding salary hike is a common news. Succumbing to the temptation of greener pastures, government doctors moving to private hospitals in the country or migrating abroad is also fairly common. But what is turning heads around is the […]
by Sandeep Pandey India doesn’t need an enemy to kill its population. The Narendra Modi government has slashed the health budget of Rs. 31,640 crores by Rs. 6000 crores, a cut of about 20%, during the current financial year, exposing the already vulnerable common people to more health care risks. India has one of the […]
