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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

Are India’s official Covid-19 mortality numbers grossly under-reported?

Gaslighting the victims of Covid-19 is an all-time political low for any government; official machinery now denying independent data analysis too

Covid orphans: Mismatch in figures provided by WCD Ministry and NCPCR

While WCD Min says only 645 children lost their parents, NCPCR pegs the number at over 3,000!

Covid-19: VHA demands sufficient beds and Maha gov’t help

The Nagpur-based hospital association demands adequate hospital beds and feasible facility and service charges to sustain health infrastructure

Pay heed to Article 21 and its order in the Kanwar Yatra case: SC to Kerala Gov’t

Supreme Court has termed Kerala govt’s three-day relaxation in Covid restrictions due to Bakr Eid alarming, other states issue protocols ahead of festival

No Covid-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage reported by States/UTs: Centre in RS

The Health Ministry said that States and Union Territories have not reported any deaths due to oxygen shortage or inadequate medical infrastructure

Make Right to Health a fundamental right: Oxfam India’s report on unequal healthcare

A detailed and comprehensive analysis, uses data since 2015-16 to understand the persisting issues of health inequalities in India

Guj gov’t faces heat for submitting report on fire safety in hospitals to SC in sealed cover

Pressure has been mounting to ensure higher safety standards since the tragic Shrey Hospital fire of August 2020

Why are Indians denied ex gratia compensation for Covid-19?

The Supreme Court considered this issue while dealing with two petitions seeking ex gratia compensation for families of those who succumbed to Covid-19 and other related relief

Beyond Pride Month: Where is the commitment to Equal Rights?

LGBTQIA+ community in India suffers even more in wake of Covid-19, and doesn’t have any real support system to protect the vulnerable

Do Baba Ramdev’s statements attract criminal liability?

The Yoga Guru has been infamously in the news for dissing modern science and anti-Covid vaccines

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