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No Medicine for the Common ‘Jan’ -Archana Mishra

-Tehelka The NDA government’s move to open more Jan Aushadhi stores ignores the multitude of issues currently plaguing them Amidst the jostling crowd at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in Shahdara, Delhi, is 68-year-old Suresh Chandra, holding his medical files on one hand and prescription letter on the other. Chandra, who is a lung disease patient, moves towards the Jan Aushadhi store, situated in the hospital premises. Chandra hopes that the government-run medical...

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Jan Aushadhi: in need of a right prescription -PT Jyothi Datta

-The Hindu Business Line Generic prescription patterns, supply-chain management must for low-cost drug availability An earnest-sounding voice answers the Jan Aushadhi hotline number and assures the person calling that more stores are being planned by the Government in districts across the country. That response was to the caller’s query if there was a Jan Aushadhi (JA) store in Mumbai. As it happens, there is one in Maharashtra, but in Pune! It’s been over...

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Medha Patkar, social activist, interviewed by Gargi Parsai

-The Hindu Interview with social activist Medha Patkar on why she opposes the Land Bill proposed by the Centre Social activist Medha Patkar has been in the forefront of the struggle for the rights and rehabilitation of project-displaced populations for over two decades, and has relentlessly pursued the formulation of a national rehabilitation policy. She spoke to Gargi Parsai at the site of the agitation in Delhi about the pitfalls in the...

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SC notice on PIL seeking ban on ‘killer’ vaccine -Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a PIL alleging a sharp increase in infant deaths after administration of pentavalent vaccine, which replaced the tried and tested vaccines to fight five deadly diseases under the universal immunization programme (UIP). PIL petitioner Yogesh Jain, a former pediatrician in AIIMS and now a public health physician at Jan Swasthya Sahyog in Bilaspur district, alleged a conspiracy in...

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Building euphoria-Himanshu Upadhyaya

-Frontline   But in Modi's Gujarat the difference between development and darkness is all too visible to those who care to see. NARENDRA MODI may have won three consecutive elections and ruled Gujarat for more than a decade after he was posted there almost as a night watchman, to borrow a cricketing expression. He may have mobilised a massive fan following that is shouting to catapult him into the Prime Minister's post,...

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