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Richa Chintan
Failing to Serve Marginalised, Private Health Sector Under PMJAY Burdens Public Systems
16 Aug 2021
Data shows that the private health sector is not catering to the most marginalised sections, even under subsidised schemes which are meant for the poor, such as the PM-JAY. The government needs to…
Richa Chintan
COVID-19 Pandemic Woes: An 'Opportunity' for the Private Sector and NITI Aayog?
09 Aug 2021
A 45-year old patient was admitted to one of Delhi's best-known private hospitals with complaints of breathlessness.
J S Majumdar
NDHM: An All-Out Drive for Privatisation of Healthcare
21 Aug 2020
Apart from data misuse, it is feared that NDHM will help convert the government’s role from ‘service provider’ to ‘broker’ for the private healthcare sector.
Vijay Prashad
How Trump Managed to Lead the World With the Worst Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
05 Aug 2020
The incompetence of the Trump administration coming on top of a destroyed public health system and a failed private sector testing establishment has condemned millions of people in the U.S. to catch…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Modi’s Stimulus Package for Health Has No Stimulus, Says JSA
05 Jun 2020
The statement also said that despite the hype created by PMJAY, the private sector has completely failed to respond to the crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Newsclick Report
Health Experts Slam Private Sector Response to Pandemic, Urge Centre to Take Control
29 Apr 2020
The JSA and AIPSN mention however that in these times, the private sector “has been missing-in-action and of the few private facilities that remain functional, many are profiteering.”
Newsclick Report
Study Says There Are 9 Lakh ‘Preventable’ C-sections in Private Hospitals in a Year
03 Dec 2018
It was found in a study conducted by IIM-A that 40.9 per cent of births in private facilities were through C-sections. 
Subodh Varma
Privatisation Harms Poor and Needy, Says UN Poverty Expert
20 Oct 2018
In a report to the UN General Assembly, Philip Alstom urged a rethink by governments as also multilateral bodies, like IMF and World Bank, and even parts of UN.
Amit Sengupta
Why is the Private Hospital Sector so Difficult to Regulate?
31 May 2018
News about rampant overcharging of patients and unethical practices in the private medical sector in the National capital Region (NCR) hit the headlines last year after several such incidents were…
Newsclick Report
Private Hospital BLK Accused of Negligence as 9-Year-Old Girl Dies
11 Dec 2017
The Gwalior-based family alleges the hospital misled them by assuring they were well-equipped and experienced in conducting the risky bone marrow transplant, but the child died days later of…