Dr. Gautam Menon and Dr. Giridhara R. Babu discuss whether India has gone past the peak. Dr. Menon says in major cities in India and in some districts adjacent to those cities that already have sufficient numbers of people infected with novel coronavirus, the number of new infections is going down. But one can't say … Continue reading Cannot emphatically say India has passed the COVID-19 peak
Rural areas
Now, ‘qualified’ quacks will treat rural folks in West Bengal
If everything works to plan, health care in rural West Bengal may soon see a change for the better. Nearly 3,000 quacks — informal health-care providers with no formal medical education — are to be trained for six months. The crash course in medicine, and to be conducted by 130 trained nurses, is to begin … Continue reading Now, ‘qualified’ quacks will treat rural folks in West Bengal
Quacks treat a majority of rural India
The compulsion to improve the level of competence of private health-care providers with no formal training in rural areas has once again been highlighted by a survey of over 23,000 households in 100 villages in Madhya Pradesh On average, people had access to 11 health-care providers in a village. Seventy-one per cent of these providers … Continue reading Quacks treat a majority of rural India
‘There is an absence of political will to give primacy to health’
India has to not only increase resources for healthcare but also radically transform the architecture of the country's healthcare delivery system, if the nation is to achieve the government’s vision of assuring health for all, says a paper published in The Lancet on Friday. There are several deficiencies and structural problems with the health-care system … Continue reading ‘There is an absence of political will to give primacy to health’
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