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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?
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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
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Father Stan Swamy finally gets first Covid shot, health continues to deteriorate in jail
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Medical system in rural Uttar Pradesh is ‘Ram Bharose’: Allahabad HC
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Mohan Bhagwat, Jaggi Vasudev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to “create hope” amidst Coronavirus pandemic
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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
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