August 2013

India has delayed introducing an anti-diarrhoea vaccine used in much of the industrialised world and in many developing countries. The delay is largely because India is developing its own version of the vaccine but, according to the WHO, each year of delay costs the lives of 50,000 Indian children. One in 242 Indian children will …

#Rotavirus vaccine would save 50,000 Indian children a year – maybe adults too Read More »

According to a NRHM report 8% of maternal deaths that occur in the country are due to unsafe abortion practices. As reported by the Hindu, one of the many reasons is  the lack of public health facilities where the procedure could take place. Another reason as identified by Ms Anuradha Gupta , the Mission Director …

Expansion of abortion services in India Read More »

The Indian express over the weekend ran an article which stated that there was only one government hospital bed available for 879 people. The ratio of which is ten times worse in states like Bihar. To read the article please click here.

  A very interesting and well written article by Shailey Hingorani and Allison Hutchings in the Wall Stree Journal talks about India’s alarming malnutrition problem and how the National Food Security Bill has failed in some ways to solve this. They highlight some key issues with the Bill. According to the article, India’s Food Minister …

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Swati Piramal is the vice chairperson of Piramal Enterprises and director of Piramal Healthcare. She’s also a member of the Planning Commission and has influenced public policies in health care. There is an interesting article by her in the Forbes today, in which she highly encourages innovation in low cost health care. According to her, …

An article by Swati Piramal on how to make India a world leader in low-cost health care Read More »

What’s not in doubt is that India’s public sector is facing a shortage of condoms. As the Hindustan Times reported on the 7th of August, this shortage is so severe that it reached the Union Cabinet. In the run-up to 2014 general elections and at the start of a crucial parliamentary session, India’s most senior …

Spinning India’s condom shortage #familyplanning #HIV Read More »

Kerala has been India’s role-model state for health care development with basic health indicators matching many developed countries. But as reported in the Economic Times,according to a study it has run into a peculiar problem: a shortage of doctors. The state has the lowest doctor density in the country with some of its cities having …

Kerala: State with best health indicators, has the lowest density of doctors says study Read More »