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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
K’taka HC seeks govt’s plan of procuring oxygen and vaccines
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Prisoners have right to access medical records under Article 21: Bom HC
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TN’s IVC facility is lying dormant, use it for Covid vaccine production: Experts to CM
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Conflict and Covid-19: A double whammy
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