-The Times of India BATHINDA: Finding it difficult to repay his loan and facing damage to his cotton crop, a young farmer committed suicide on Thursday at a farmers' protest venue in Bathinda. Kuldeep Singh, 26, of Chughe Kalan village in Bathinda consumed a poisonous substance around 2am and died four hours later at a Hospital. Kuldeep's family owns five acres of land and had taken another 13 acres on lease. He had...

-The Hindu India spends less of its GDP on health than some of the world’s poorest countries’ Every government Hospital serves an estimated 61,000 people in India, with one bed for every 1833 people, new official data shows. In undivided Andhra Pradesh, every government Hospital serves over 3 lakh patients while in Bihar, there is only one bed for every 8800 people. Union Minister for Health J.P. Nadda released the National Health Profile...

-The Indian Express The steady state efficiency of healthcare needs to be raised so that crises like this one can be avoided. In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty; all are responsible.” While these words of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel ring true for many social and political ills that appall us, they are also a timely reminder of our collective responsibility to correct the pathetic state of...

-The Times of India CHENNAI: Corporation of Chennai insists that private Hospitals reserve 10 per cent of their beds for admission of poor patients free of cost according to the guidelines of the Nursing Homes Regulatory Act. It also mandates that private Hospitals submit periodical monthly reports to the health officer to register a nursing home and Hospital with beds in the city. Of the 700 private Hospitals in Chennai, few, if...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Even as the government is still deliberating on larger pictorial warnings on packs of tobacco products, 40% of Indian adults are exposed to second hand tobacco smoke at home. These are people who do not smoke themselves but are vulnerable to various diseases because someone smokes at home, showed a latest assessment by the World Health Organization, highlighting risks of second hand smoking and the need...