Beyond the Buzz Into the Core
India’s smaller cities and hinterland remain a neglected lot even as five-star specialty hospitals flourish in the metros. To have its healthcare parameters on track, India needs an urgent flow of investments in tertiary-care hospitals in tier-II and tier-III cities. But building and managing tertiary-care hospitals isn’t easy. Examples like Ujala Cygnus can show the way forward.
As per a recent report in The Lancet, the incidence of prostate cancer is expected to double in India over the next few years. A crucial weapon in averting a severe health catastrophe will be early detection. But before addressing the issue of testing, there’s a knotty ribbon problem to be solved.
An overlooked mental health challenge faced by new mothers. A powerful new drug could be critical in fighting back. It should have been an obvious match. Yet things may not turn out that way because of pharma industry’s pricing vagaries as well as the lack of conversation around the condition itself.
Epidemic control workers wear PPE as they wait to remove medical waste from apartments where people who have tested positive are doing home quarantine on December 6, 2022 in Beijing, China. Synopsis In many ways, China has become a victim of its own success. Tough countermeasures helped it cope with the early waves of the […]