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A series about India’s key healthcare achievements, challenges, and opportunities.

In past 57 years, India’s suicide rate surged by 70%

October 4, 2022

Kruxd examines the number of suicides reported in India between 1964 and 2021 by the National Crime Records Bureau of India India saw a roughly 70 percent...

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On the right track to reducing India’s cancer burden

October 3, 2022

A Lancet study found that 44 per cent of cancer deaths in 2020 were preventable. This offers a huge opportunity for India to work towards creating awareness by...

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Pads and toilets for a new Swachh India

September 19, 2022

My involvement in the Swachh Bharat Mission as a champion of village toilet construction and menstrual hygiene In 2013, I visited a village in rural Madhya...

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Unlocking India’s dream of universal health coverage

September 16, 2022

In India, we have less than three per cent people paying taxes for 1.3 billion people. Can we afford free health care for all? As I write this today, I feel...

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India at 75: India’s healthcare has made remarkable progress

September 13, 2022

Healthcare and the provision of health services have been unimaginably altered for the better since 1947 Healthcare in India has come a long way over the past...

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How India can make healthcare more affordable

September 12, 2022

In India, 60 percent of the OPD spend is on medicines, the rest is on doctor’s fees and tests. There is a need for robust coverage of OPD visits under cashless...

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Tuberculosis: Overcoming the Ancient Scourge

September 11, 2022

Sixty-eight percent of the global Tuberculosis cases are concentrated in South-East Asia and Africa. Surprisingly, India accounts for 27 percent of the...

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Three health ministers who steered India through major health crises

September 2, 2022

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India’s first health minister oversaw the nation’s recovery from malaria and tuberculosis epidemics, Karan Singh eradicated smallpox and...

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People live longer now, but still lower than the world average

August 25, 2022

The average life expectancy of Indians has increased from 35 to 70 years between 1947 and 2022, while the global average stands at 72.75 years. The world’s...

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Time to celebrate menstrual freedom

August 24, 2022

As I traveled through the villages of UP in 2019 as the head of a menstrual hygiene campaign, I witnessed the attitudes of women toward the use of pads change...