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Village in Maharashtra’s Uran flattens the curve with 99% recoveries -Raina Assainar

-The Hindu With extensive screening, lockdown, COVID-19 hotbed Karanja brings down the cases from 134 to one Navi Mumbai has reported more than 4,000 COVID-19 cases, with a recovery rate of around 57%. But in the adjoining Uran, one village has managed to bring its recovery rate to 99.2%, with only one patient currently under treatment. Karanja village, which has eight padas and a population of around 10,000, had reported as many as...

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Plan for free dialysis at home -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph It will be available free to below-poverty-line patients and at a cost to the rest The Union health ministry has decided to provide peritoneal dialysis, a home-based alternative to haemodialysis that typically requires thrice weekly hospital visits, to patients with end-stage kidney disease across India under the National dialysis Programme. It will be available free to below-poverty-line patients and at a cost to the rest, just as haemodialysis is under the...

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Under Ayushman Bharat, hospitals use bizarre ways to siphon off funds -Ishita Mishra

-The Economic Times Private hospitals have been accused of siphoning almost Rs 1.20 crore in just a few months. About a year after introduction of the Ayushman Bharat scheme — the Union government’s programme for providing health protection cover to around 10 crore vulnerable families — truant doctors and hospitals in the tiny Himalayan state of Uttarakhand have come up with some of the most innovative ways of scamming the ambitious plan...

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PMJAY will not cover cataract ops, dialysis and normal deliveries -Abantika Ghosh

-The Indian Express In the first three months of PMJAY — until November 24, 2018 — 6,900 claims had been submitted for cataract surgeries even though they are done for free under the National Blindness Control Programme (NBCP). IN THE first trimming of the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana since its launch, the National Health Authority (NHA) is planning to remove procedures covered under existing national programmes from the list...

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Dalit youth assaulted in Baghpat dies, most villagers who fled yet to return -Aniruddha Ghosal

-The Indian Express Two days after the assault on the 19-year-old and his 16-year-old nephew Manish, villagers said that most Dalit homes that were deserted after the attack remained empty and young women who had been sent away “as precaution” had not yet returned. New Delhi: A 19-year-old Dalit student, who was assaulted by Gujjar residents of his village in Baghpat district, died of “multiple organ failure” triggered by renal trauma and...

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