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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
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Covid-19: Karnataka unable to dispose of the dead, even as people struggle to survive
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Did a BJP worker give ‘Gau Mutra’ to a Covid-19 patient on a ventilator?
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal tests positive for Covid-19
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SII provides 3 lakh doses, vaccination for 18-44 age group to begin in Maharashtra
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