The Covid-19 pandemic, which has presented challenges for several nations, could be an opportunity for India to speed up the health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat, especially with a focus on primary...

The Supreme Court on Friday asked private hospitals whether they are ready to provide treatment to Covid-19 infected patients at the charges prescribed under the government's Ayushman Bharat Scheme.Th...

Over one crore people have availed treatment worth around Rs 13,412 crore for free in hospitals across the country under the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme since its launch in September 2018,...

State health minister Banna Gupta on Wednesday asked healthcare providers and medicine shop owners to serve people without fear.He was interacting with more than 100 private nursing home operators and...

Attacking the ruling Aam Aadmi Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Delhi needs a government that will give direction and not resort to blame games.Addressing an election rally in Dwark...

A blinkered vision can be fatal. Nowhere is this more evident than in India’s healthcare policies that rarely see prevention of diseases, cure and aftercare as a whole. Take, for instance, the Natio...

Monday’s death of a 12-year-old boy from a poor home, whose family has alleged he did not get treatment for a rare congenital heart defect despite having a card of the Centre’s flagship health sch...

Niti Aayog is mulling building a healthcare system for the middle class which is still not covered under any public healthcare system, the government think-tank said on Monday.The healthcare system wo...

Grievances related to the Ayushman Bharat scheme dominated the state-level consultation on health and education organised by Life Education and Development Support (Leads) and Child in Need Institute ...

CM Raghubar Das on Saturday brought Diwali cheer by laying foundation stones and inaugurating projects worth over Rs 300 crore in East Singhbhum in the run-up to the Assembly polls, and also empanelle...