It’s time for a healthcare regulator
Prescribe equal care: Healthcare institutions come in all sizes and shapes in India - G RAMAKRISHNA
Prescribe equal care: Healthcare institutions come in all sizes and shapes in India - G RAMAKRISHNA×
Although the idea finds favour, the task of setting up one is easier said than done, given the different ground realities
It’s Friday evening and a ‘Jan Sunwai’, or public hearing, on patient experiences at private hospitals during the pandemic has just concluded in Pune.
“Despite the Government capping rates (of certain tests and treatment), there are instances of patients being overcharged. And there is no organised platform for patients to take their problems,” says public health expert Dr Abhay Shukla, emerging from the interaction.
Locals extend helping hand to Singhu farmers Good samaritans provide electricity, toilet access to protesters amid difficulties
As protesting farmers continue to face troubles like power outage, unavailability of water and lack of sanitation at Singhu border, locals are coming forward and extending a helping hand to them at the epicenter of their ongoing agitation.
From providing electricity connection to giving access to toilets and washrooms to the women protesters, farmers staying put at the Delhi-Haryana Highway say the good samaritans have been helping them in these dire circumstances.
“We are facing power cuts at night since January 27. If not for the locals, we would have to do without electricity the whole night. They are the one helping us with lights and other things, that too without charging us anything, said Dharmendra Singh, from Punjab s Patiala district.
Locals turn good Samaritans for protesting farmers at Singhu border PTI
New Delhi: Many locals are coming forward and extending a helping hand to protesting farmers at the Singhu border. The protesting farmers are facing difficulties like power outage, unavailability of water and lack of sanitation. The Singhu border is the epicenter of the ongoing farmers’ protests against the three contentious farm laws.
The good Samaritans are providing electricity connection from their houses. They are giving access to toilets and washrooms to the women protestors. Farmers staying put at the Delhi-Haryana Highway are stating that the locals have been helping them in these dire circumstances.
The Centre’s Economic Survey has attributed Bengal’s poor performance on certain primary health measures to the state’s decision not to adopt the nationwide health insurance scheme that covers hospitalisation costs for poor households, baffling health experts who say the connection is far-fetched.
The survey, released by the Union finance ministry on Friday, has said Assam, Bihar and Sikkim, which have adopted the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PMJAY), have shown greater improvements in infant mortality, family planning services and vaccinations than has Bengal.
But sections of health experts and health economists have questioned the wisdom of citing the PMJAY a scheme that pays for hospitalisation as a source of gains in primary health measures. One expert said the PMJAY chapter’s reference to Bengal appeared to have been crafted with “a political motivation” to cast Bengal in poor light.