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Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar: Doctors Apprehensive After 23 of Them Succumb to COVID-19
25 Aug 2020
Bihar has reported the highest number of doctors’ deaths due to the infection for any state in the country.
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.
Subodh Varma
Understanding India’s Low COVID-19 Death Rate
20 Aug 2020
It is not because of any government strategy that the case fatality rate is lower – it is a younger population and some statistical tricks.
Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar: Ruling NDA Divided Over Assembly Elections Amid Pandemic and Floods
11 Aug 2020
As per the official data, more than 74 lakh people have been affected by floods in 16 districts of Bihar so far.
Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar: COVID-19 Testing Doubled, But No Data on Types of Tests Conducted
04 Aug 2020
The government has not clarified whether the increase accounts for additional reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests or rapid antigen tests.
Abdul Rahman
COVID-19 Shows the Need to Rebuild Public Health Systems in Central Asian Countries
03 Aug 2020
Most of the countries in central Asia have been reluctant to reimpose restrictions due to the economic fallout. This has led to a massive jump in the total number of new infections and deaths in late…
Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar: Four-fold Rise in COVID-19 Cases Within a Month
27 Jul 2020
Similarly, the recovery rate of COVID-19 was 78% a month ago (on June 27), which has come down to 67.52% now.
Ayswarya Murthy
Contract Healthcare Workers in Bengaluru Get a Raw Deal
21 Jul 2020
A series of protests in the city on Monday exposed the vulnerability of contract healthcare workers, who work in close quarters with the COVID-19 patients in the city’s hospitals.
Newsclick Report
India’s Maternal Mortality Declines to 113, Still Nearly Double of UN Goals: SRS Bulletin
17 Jul 2020
While the UN’s goal is to reduce global MMR to less than 70 by 2030, at 113, India has also missed the 2017 National Health Policy’s target of reducing the MMR to 100.
Saurav Kumar
Bihar: Dead Bodies Left ‘Unattended’ Beside Patients in Designated COVID-19 Hospital
15 Jul 2020
“There were hardly any visits of doctors and nurses, and oxygen infrequency remained a constant problem,” the caretaker of a COVID-19 patient admitted to NMCH has alleged.