Indian Healthcare

'I am blown away': American vlogger raves about Indian healthcare system. Watch

Mackenzie detailed her experience, revealing her anxiety about securing a doctor’s appointment and the potential costs involved. However, a friend’s advice transformed her understanding of the Indian healthcare system. She was pleasantly surprised to discover that patients in India can schedule lab tests at their convenience.

Regulating doctors only first step in addressing ills of healthcare

Even if doctors start following some of these regulations, there is no point if the pharma scene remains marked by poor and indifferent product quality

'Will continue to focus on control opportunities in Indian healthcare', says BPEA EQT's Ashish Agrawal

On July 22, Moneycontrol was the first to report that BPEA EQT had the edge over others in the race for Indira IVF.

Why DCGI served a show-cause notice on e-pharmacies

Online pharmacies do not comply with licence conditions like selling against a prescription, maintaining records about the sale of Schedule H drugs, and more, which can lead to drug abuse and self-medication.

Gambian children deaths highlight deep rooted malaise in Indian pharma

A rigorous investigation needs to be conducted into the affairs of the Indian drug regulators

Are we spending enough to rejuvenate healthcare?

Latest published data on national health accounts show that we have a long catch-up game to play to reach global standards

A proper public healthcare service will drive out quacks

What will make a difference is taking affordable healthcare of minimum quality to people who live in remote areas and for whom going to a proper hospital means foregoing a day’s wages

Health index reaffirms old divide between southern and bimaru states

Notably, there is negative correlation between the health index scores and the poverty levels of states as measured by the multidimensional poverty index put out by Niti Aayog. This means you can be poorer but healthier. It indicates that factors beyond income determine health sector performance

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw writes: Technology holds huge promise for healthcare in India in 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitisation of several sectors, from e-payments to e-commerce, and e-learning to e-government. The accelerated digital transformation will see greater implementation of new technologies in the healthcare industry next

Here’s how COVID-19 could transform healthcare in India

Learnings from the pandemic have paved the way for transformative reform in the healthcare sector. We stand at a pivotal moment to secure our future against other viral onslaughts and must act now to steer the country towards a stronger, resilient future

Is a health regulator the cure for all medical infrastructure ills?

Regulation, to some extent, can address the lacunae in healthcare, but public spending has to go up to ensure quality medical facilities across the board

Digital health ID — A tonic, but not a life-saver for ailing medical set-up

A sound and robust healthcare infrastructure is a prerequisite for a digitised medical system to function effectively

Medical crowd-funding and State’s failure to control healthcare costs

Indians are spending around Rs 3.4 lakh crore on healthcare from their savings. This is roughly 4.5 times higher than the budget allocations for the Government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2021-22

For the healthcare sector, it is the beginning of a long journey

Budget 2021 is aimed at addressing only the immediate needs, and it is still far from providing a long-term immunity booster to the healthcare sector

Update laws to keep India’s health system future-ready

As the economy and healthcare systems try to emerge from the crisis, there is a need to reconsider how to build a system that is ready and responsive in order to prevent and protect the public from emerging threats

An adverse healthcare scene got worse during 2020

India’s life expectancy and infant mortality rate is worse than that for China, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh

Global focus on India’s healthcare deficit

The reputed medical journal Lancet and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute of Harvard University are setting up a citizens’ commission which will seek to chalk out a new path to revive Indian healthcare and enable universal health coverage