April 18, 2021
Uncaring: A Bengaluru hospital that was penalised for not reserving beds for Covid-19 patients - SOMASHEKARA GRN
Uncaring: A Bengaluru hospital that was penalised for not reserving beds for Covid-19 patients - SOMASHEKARA GRN×
A 2010 Act to regulate the medical sector flounders in implementation, even as healthcare remains unaffordable for the masses
In the last two decades the private health sector has overtaken public health infrastructure in no uncertain terms.
While the former has an estimated 43,487 hospitals with 11,85,242 beds, the latter has substantially less 25,778 hospitals and 7,13,986 beds. With overcrowding, and lack of amenities and staff in government hospitals, citizens have been knocking at the doors of private establishments even if they cannot afford them. And there are enough stories of how families have sold their assets for a major life-saving procedure. A situation that has only become more grim as the pandemic takes a high hum
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Unfortunately, Punjab has been in the throes of an employment crisis for some years now, but, gravely, the severe blow dealt by the pandemic-induced lockdown seems to have aggravated the situation. The educated youth engaged in or aiming for salaried placements have borne the brunt of job losses and contraction of the economy. This is apparent from the fact that 1,152 posts of patwari recently thrown open have drawn as many as 2.33 lakh aspirants. The huge number of overqualified youths seeking this comparatively low-level government job further reflects the desperate state of affairs.
The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy study reveals volatile month-wise data of India’s unemployment rate. From September 2020 to February 2021, the unemployment rate has swung between a high of 9.1 per cent and a low of 6.5 per cent, with the average being around 7.4 per cent. (Notably, Haryana fared the worst, with the highest rate of 26.4 per
There has been little investigation into whether the “social gradient to health” whereby people belonging to groups higher up the social ladder have better health outcomes than those belonging to groups further down exists in developing countries like India. The relative strengths of economic and social status in determining the health status of persons in India is evaluated using the National Sample Survey Office data set for 2004 and 2014. This is evaluated with respect to two health outcomes: the age at death and the self-assessed health status of elderly persons.
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Why India needs more reliable data on Dalit Christians and Muslims
Without reliable data, the marginalised communities are left exposed to discrimination. Mar 16, 2021 · 07:30 pm The Constitution guarantees various kinds of protection and benefits to SCs that Dalit Muslims and Christians do not have access to. | Prakash Singh/AFP
The exclusion of
Dalit Christians and Muslims from the Scheduled Caste category, and the lack of reliable government data on them, deprives these communities of the constitutional benefits extended to Dalits from other religious backgrounds, say experts.
Currently, only Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits are enumerated as SC. Before the previous Census in 2011, the Centre had decided to enumerate overall caste data in a separate exercise – the
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