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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
Kerala: How are local bodies helping control Covid?
The state’s local self-governing bodies are working in cooperation with youth organisations to set up assistance centres for patients
J&K: HPC directs provision of legal aid to inmates eligible for temporary bail, parole
The HPC has decided to release convicts who were released last year, for a period of 90 days
UP govt challenges HC order granting bail on apprehension of contracting Covid-19
The Allahabad High Court had granted bail to an accused in a cheating case while observing that it was important to protect an accused from suffering consequences of being infected in prison
Father Stan Swamy finally gets first Covid shot, health continues to deteriorate in jail
His medical note filed before the Bombay High Court on poor facilities states that Taloja houses 3,251 inmates instead of its capacity of 2,124, with only three Ayurvedic doctors on duty
Medical system in rural Uttar Pradesh is ‘Ram Bharose’: Allahabad HC
The court took exception to the fact that a dead body of one of the patients, who had collapsed in the bathroom and died, was disposed of as unidentified body
A team that never was a hope provider for the poor
Mohan Bhagwat, Jaggi Vasudev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to “create hope” amidst Coronavirus pandemic
New virus variant a formidable enemy, we enabled its spread: Dr Shahid Jameel
The virologist who recently quit as the head of INSACOG had warned about negligence and apathy allowed the virus to spread and also raised concerns about undercounting of Covid deaths
Nearly 500 districts record soaring Covid positivity rate, Centre draws up three tier structure
As many as 479 out of 718 districts have reported a positivity rate above 10 percent, with Madhya Pradesh in the lead
Virologist Shahid Jameel quits INSACOG; offers no reason, but gov’t pressure suspected
The veteran scientist known to have openly criticised the central government for their poor management of the Covid-crisis in India, especially during the second wave of infection, said he had no obligation to give a reason for quitting.
Uttar Pradesh: Bodies in the river, more buried in the sands, tell tales of Govt apathy
More shallow graves continue to reveal themselves along the Ganga, after rains reveal more rushed burials
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