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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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India should stop flying blind: John Hopkins COVID report
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Stay where you are, UP govt tells migrants
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Covid-19: Telemedicine, online counseling helps people tide over nationwide lockdown
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They have lost jobs, homes in the city, and there are no interstate busses or trains to take them back to their villages
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Medical health professional all over the country are facing discrimination and exclusion for the fear of spreading Covid-19 among the community
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