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Indicators that matter: On the quality of public healthcare -Soumitra Ghosh

-The Hindu Governments must be judged on the quality and extent of the public health care they provide The deaths of more than 70 children in one hospital in Gorakhpur and 49 in Farrukhabad, both in Uttar Pradesh recently, reflect the appalling state of public health in India. However, it needs to be remembered that India’s public health care sector has been ailing for decades. According to the latest Global Burden of...

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MS Swaminathan, father of India's Green Revolution, interviewed by Vidya Venkat (The Hindu)

-The Hindu Fifty years since the Green Revolution, the architect of the reform highlights the crisis facing Indian agriculture today It is 11 years since agronomist M.S. Swaminathan handed over his recommendations for improving the state of agriculture in India to the former United Progressive Alliance government, at the height of the Vidarbha farmer suicides crisis, but they are still to be implemented. To address the agrarian crisis and farmers’ unrest across...

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India's dismal record in healthcare -Manas Chakravarty

-Livemint.com A new research by ‘Lancet’ shows India ranks 154 out of 195 countries in terms of access to healthcare, which is worse than Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana and Liberia Why is it that the world’s fastest growing major economy ranks below much poorer nations such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana and even Liberia when it comes to healthcare for its masses? Last week, new research by medical journal Lancet, on the basis of...

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Chance of newborn survival: Somalia better off than India

-The Hindu India falls 11 places, holds 154th position in global burden of disease rankings Newborns in India have a lesser chance of survival than babies born in Afghanistan and Somalia, according to the latest global burden of disease (GBD) study published in the medical journal The Lancet. In the GBD rankings for healthcare access and quality (HAQ), India has fallen 11 places, and now ranks 154 out of 195 countries. Further, India’s...

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India ranks below Lanka, Bangladesh on healthcare index -Rupali Mukherjee & Sushmi Dey

-The Times of India NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India continues to be one of the poor performers ranking at 154, much below China, Sri Lanka and even Bangladesh, in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare, according to the new global burden of disease study published in the Lancet. The study points that despite the country's socio-economic development, India has failed to achieve in healthcare goals and the gap between the score and...

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