The 2021-22 budget focus on healthcare may be historic — but only in popular perception...

The effective implementation of PM-JAY would be possible if we adopt an approach that tends to the community’s needs, is evidence-based and well-administered...

Increase from last year’s outlay of Rs 62,659 crore was not large enough to account even for inflation...

Health experts have for long advocated a substantial increase in government spending on healthcare...

16 private and Church-sponsored hospitals have agreed to implement the scheme...

The private sector’s topmost claim figures for different types of cancer treatment were always significantly higher than the public sector’s...

'We’re seeking a health assurance model, not a health insurance model'...

But the bulk of his 30-minute speech was centred around the achievements of his government...

Kejriwal said that while the central scheme’s beneficiaries were covered up to Rs 5 lakh, the state scheme had no such limit...

India finds itself with a health ecosystem militating against equitable healthcare...