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Date Time India’s COVID-19 crisis reveals deep fractures in its health system As India’s COVID-19 crisis continues, the percentage of the population testing positive for the virus has grown from 4.2% to 18.4% in the past 30 days. Author Lecturer in Health systems and policy, University of Canterbury With more than 300,000 new cases reported each day, hospitals and crematoria face collapse. Global media have been awash with heartbreaking images, statistics and stories showing the failu...

Sickly state, healthy democracy: Elections held during deadly pandemic surge expose India’s real flaws and strengths May 5, 2021, 8:26 AM IST Ruchir Sharma is the author of the upcoming ‘10 Rules of Successful Nations’ Those of us who see these as dark times for Indian democracy can take heart from the recent elections, not only because of the way regional parties stood up to the Centre’s ruling party machine but also because of the highly unusu...

As India’s COVID-19 crisis continues, the percentage of the population testing positive for the virus has grown from 4.2% to 18.4% in the past 30 days. With more than 300,000 new cases reported each day, hospitals and crematoria face collapse. Global media have been awash with heartbreaking images, statistics and stories showing the failure of the country’s health system in the face of surging infections and deaths. The fracture lines in India’s health system have been developing for ye...

PatnaDaily The pace of development in Bihar can be gauged from the fact that it took nearly three months for the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to finally fill up his cabinet. This also meant that Nitish with a new team or the NDA as a winning political front werent buoyed up with an agenda or action items to embark on immediately following the November 2020 election. After being reinstalled in the CM’s position, it must have been “same-old, same-old for Nitish, although at one...

Nitish Kumar Leaves Gupteshwar Pandey In Cold, Picks Another Top Cop As Minister Gupteshwar Pandey had courted controversies over his remark to question the aukaat (status) of Sushant’s girlfriend, actress Rhea Chakravorty, who was at the centre of a prolonged media trial in the case at the time. File Photo Giridhar Jha 2021-02-10T12:47:42+05:30 Nitish Kumar Leaves Gupteshwar Pandey In Cold, Picks Another Top Cop As Minister outlookindia.com 2021-02-10T13:22:54+0...

The first wave of reforms was introduced as part of structural adjustments in India, in the 1990s. This was based on the World Bank promoted model of limited state intervention in the health sector. The role of the state was defined as investing in public health management, focussed only on those health services characterised as non-excludable and non-rivalrous, where markets are considered to fail in efficient resource allocation. The consequence of these reforms was privatisation, soaring cos...