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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

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​​​​​​​The political, economic, social decisions taken during the pandemic have also exposed other chronic illnesses – those of monumental inequity and inequality, those of crumbling human rights in the face of brutal oppression, those of apathy and arrogance, those of utter humiliation and helplessness! Should we wait for another pandemic to be competent Social and Political Doctors?

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