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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
No space to bury the dead in Maharashtra
While corpses pile up at crematoria, minorities struggle to accommodate a deluge of new arrivals at burial grounds
Covid-19: Karnataka unable to dispose of the dead, even as people struggle to survive
The capital city is running out of space to cremate/bury their dead and the medical infrastructure is crumbling
Ensure uninterrupted oxygen supply to hospitals: 13 Opposition parties tell Centre
Senior Opposition leaders issue a joint statement, asking the government to focus all its attention on ensuring uninterrupted oxygen supply
Adar Poonawalla is in Britain ‘on business’, but is that the only reason?
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Indians pay as Centre ignored warning of Covid-19 variants by experts
Despite a warning of a disaster in the making, four scientists and a researcher told both the Telegraph and Reuters that the government did not seek to impose major restrictions to stop the spread of the virus
Did a BJP worker give ‘Gau Mutra’ to a Covid-19 patient on a ventilator?
Disturbing video of man wearing saffron scarf over PPE pouring a yellow liquid down the patient's throat has been going viral
SHOCKING: Covid kills over 700 teachers, 300 still critical in UP!
Following recent decisions by the Supreme Court, the State Primary Teachers Association said it will soon announce its response to Supreme Court proceedings on Saturday
Enough is enough: Delhi HC after 8 Covid patients dead due to oxygen shortage in Batra Hospital
HC warns of contempt action against the Centre if the allocated 490 MT of oxygen is not supplied to Delhi today
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal tests positive for Covid-19
India records 4,08,325 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, the highest single-day spike globally
SII provides 3 lakh doses, vaccination for 18-44 age group to begin in Maharashtra
State government now prioritising delivery of vaccines to various centers, even as people register on CoWIN portal and try to book appointments
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