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Ambulance Abandoned, Kerala Villagers Carry Patients Through Forests
Locals emphasise that if the authorities immediately intervene to resolve the administrative stalemate and make the ambulance roadworthy, it will significantly alleviate the severe medical transport hardships.
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Brahmaputra Boat Clinic In Assam Goes Solar, Powering Up Rural Healthcare
Majuli, Assam: Sitting on her haunches, Ritumani Baruah watches the boat drop anchor and waits for its crew to set up a clinic on the shore. Twenty minutes later, she asks to see the dentist and is guided to the lower deck of the SB Nahor, a boat offering healthcare services that operates on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. She negotiates the gangp...
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India’s Most Populous State Uttar Pradesh Spends The Least On Health
By Oommen C Kurian/ IndiaSpend With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of Qatars – which has 2.4 million people, the same as the UP town of Bijnore; per capita gross domestic product (GDP) comparable to Kenyas; and an infant mortality rate that rivals The Gambia, a poverty-ridden, p...
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Rural Women Increasingly Accessing Government Hospitals, Shows Study
By Devanik Saha/IndiaSpend There was a 24 per cent rise in rural women accessing public healthcare between 2004 and 2014, according to a new report by Brookings India, a think tank, significant in a country where half the rural population uses private healthcare, which is four times costlier. Overall, there was a six per cent rise in dependence on ...
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Most Indians Dependent On Private Healthcare, Finds Study
New Delhi: Households across India still overwhelmingly depend on private providers for healthcare services over public healthcare, a recent study has found. Senior Fellow at Brookings India, Shamika Ravi, found in her study “Health and Morbidity in India: 2004-2014” that as much as 75 per cent of out-patient (OPD) care in India was exclusive...
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Training Quacks Will Help In Rural Healthcare, Says Amartya Sen
With the healthcare system not up to the mark in rural areas, Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen today said training of quacks might help in tackling the situation.
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Ambulance Abandoned, Kerala Villagers Carry Patients Through Forests
Locals emphasise that if the authorities immediately intervene to resolve the administrative stalemate and make the ambulance roadworthy, it will significantly alleviate the severe medical transport hardships.
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Brahmaputra Boat Clinic In Assam Goes Solar, Powering Up Rural Healthcare
Majuli, Assam: Sitting on her haunches, Ritumani Baruah watches the boat drop anchor and waits for its crew to set up a clinic on the shore. Twenty minutes later, she asks to see the dentist and is guided to the lower deck of the SB Nahor, a boat offering healthcare services that operates on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. She negotiates the gangp...
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India’s Most Populous State Uttar Pradesh Spends The Least On Health
By Oommen C Kurian/ IndiaSpend With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of Qatars – which has 2.4 million people, the same as the UP town of Bijnore; per capita gross domestic product (GDP) comparable to Kenyas; and an infant mortality rate that rivals The Gambia, a poverty-ridden, p...
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Rural Women Increasingly Accessing Government Hospitals, Shows Study
By Devanik Saha/IndiaSpend There was a 24 per cent rise in rural women accessing public healthcare between 2004 and 2014, according to a new report by Brookings India, a think tank, significant in a country where half the rural population uses private healthcare, which is four times costlier. Overall, there was a six per cent rise in dependence on ...
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Most Indians Dependent On Private Healthcare, Finds Study
New Delhi: Households across India still overwhelmingly depend on private providers for healthcare services over public healthcare, a recent study has found. Senior Fellow at Brookings India, Shamika Ravi, found in her study “Health and Morbidity in India: 2004-2014” that as much as 75 per cent of out-patient (OPD) care in India was exclusive...
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Training Quacks Will Help In Rural Healthcare, Says Amartya Sen
With the healthcare system not up to the mark in rural areas, Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen today said training of quacks might help in tackling the situation.
