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Subodh Varma
As COVID Spreads in Rural India, Crumbling Health Infrastructure Fails to Cope
23 May 2021
Shortfall in basic facilities and essential personnel haunts the vast network of health centres and district hospitals.
Sagrika Kissu
Jammu: The Chaos Behind ‘All is Well’ as COVID Cases Spurt
08 May 2021
The worst hit are border villages, where shortage of equipment and personnel in CHC and PHCs are sending patients scurrying to sub-district hospital, which too is ill-equipped to handle the influx.
Mohd. Imran Khan
COVID-19: Patna High Court Calls State Govt's Action Plan 'Wrong'
29 Apr 2021
There are only 1,900 PHCs in the state against the required 3,470 and 150 CHCs instead of the 867 needed. There are nine government-owned medical colleges and hospitals including two in Patna and one…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
West Bengal Polls: How Much Truth to TMC’s Promise of Improving Public Healthcare?
02 Apr 2021
The government hospitals are ill-equipped to treat incoming patients, forcing ordinary citizens to rely on expensive treatment in private hospitals.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
West Bengal’s Public Healthcare Struggles with Lack of Staff
01 Oct 2019
The public-funded healthcare in West Bengal, like several other states across the country, struggles with lack of proper infrastructure and shortage of doctors and staff.