A survey of pricing practices in private hospitals in Maharashtra during Covid-19 brings out the extent of price gouging that took place in spite of government attempts at regulation.
In this final episode of Suno India's 'Becoming Modern', host Kiran Kumbhar speaks to historians Projit Bihari Mukharji, David Arnold, Ranjana Saha, and Nandini Bhattacharya about one…
Tracing the evolution of the modern pharmaceutical industry, Truth Pill takes a critical look at the drug regulatory process in India and outlines what needs to be done to make the country a world…
The sugar-coated termination of the free grain Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana calls for an urgent expansion of alternative social security measures.
Suno India’s Menaka Rao speaks to Dr Rajib Dasgupta about the scientific mechanism of oral rehydration therapy and why it works to save lives during acute diarrhoea. Dr Rajib describes the twists and…
The second episode of 'Becoming Modern: Healthcare and History in India' is about one of the central challenges of writing any kind of history: how to find and incorporate the voices of the…
In this introductory episode of 'Becoming Modern', host Kiran Kumbhar talks with Suno India co-founder Padma Priya about the importance of knowing the history of medicine and healthcare,…
The government aims to enhance the quality of healthcare services for pregnant women ensuring “respectful maternity care” at public health facilities. However, observations in public hospitals reveal…
Inadequate governance and widespread unethical medical practices had made India one of the top global destinations for surrogate parenting till the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act was passed in 2021.…
India’s recently amended Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act is quite progressive on paper but its translation into practice makes abortion as inaccessible in the country as in many of the most…
