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Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?
The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires
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The residents who had been ‘rehabilitated’ to Mahul, today languish in apathetic conditions facing life-threatening diseases
India ranks first in child deaths under 5 years of age: UNICEF report
Despite multiple health schemes running in parallel and many of these focusing on primary health care of children, India is falling behind; it’s time to examine lacunae in implementation
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Assam gov’t makes sanitary napkins mandatory in factories
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Karnataka gov’t delays malnutrition alleviation report, HC warns of contempt proceedings
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Mobile Medical Units Can Improve Access To Quality Healthcare, If Funded Well
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Is BRD College Hiding Encephalitis Cases by Creating New Illness Category?
While the number of AES/JE patients has gone down, acute febrile illness patients have seen an alarming rise.
Bhopal gas tragedy victims lose a true friend
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