Here is an important initiative which aims to reach out to cancer patients in rural India, who do not have access to quality health care. As reported in the Times of India, Bangalore, nearly 75% of cancer cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage. To reach out to the rural population, the Mazumdar Shaw Medical […]
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Could India perform as well as Rwanda and save 70,000 women a year? @GAVISeth #HPV #HPVaccine @agnesbinagwaho
Dr Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance, asks “how is it that Rwanda, among the world’s poorest countries – and still recovering from a brutal civil war – is able to protect its teenage girls against cancer more effectively than the G-8 countries?”. The answer is that Rwanda has vaccinated 93 percent of its […]
Cost of #cancer to Indian families #NCDs
This has been the week to talk about the cost of cancer in India. Responding to the wave of international interest, The Hindu ran a short human interest story on the costs of cancer care on Friday which gave an uncharacteristically obvious mention to the benefits of the Chief Minister’s health insurance programme in Tamil […]