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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

Right to Food Campaign demands changes in Budget 2021-22 based on Hunger Watch survey

Members said that while the survey does not represent the overall district, state or country, it shows the severe hunger situation and points towards necessary measures

Tablighi Jamaat: Delhi court acquits all foreigners after months of trial

The court pulled up the SHO of Hazrat Nizamuddin/complainant for lapses in the identification of the accused

Battling Covid: New vaccines, new concerns

Several different vaccines are in varying stages of trial across the world, but their efficacy and side-effects on trial participants have raised concerns

Doctors denounce ‘MIXOPATHY’, but will the Health Minister listen?

There was another strike the govt is ignoring, thousands of doctors are protesting the plan to allow ayurveda practitioners to perform surgeries 

After trial Covaxin shot, Haryana health minister Anil Vij test Covid-19 positive

On November 20, that Vij had volunteered to be the first to get a shot Covaxin, when the third phase trial started in the state

Justify ‘attempt to murder’ charge on Tablighi Jamaat attendee: Allahabad HC

The high court stated that invoking the charge under section 307 of IIPC seemed to be abuse of process of law

COVISHIELD vaccine trial participant sues Serum Institute

Participant experienced painful headaches, memory loss, disorientation and went into a coma-like state briefly

Shrey Hospital Fire: Four months on, no evidence yet!

The inquiry commission set up three months ago headed by a retired High Court Judge has not submitted its report yet

SC takes suo moto cognisance of Rajkot Covid Hospital fire

A fire broke out in the ICU ward of Rajkot’s Uday Shivananda Hospital, killing five and injuring six on November 27, 2020

Another fatal inferno in Gujarat Covid hospital!

Five killed, six injured as fire breaks out in Rajkot hospital’s ICU

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