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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
Covid Confusion: Do masks really protect you from the Covid-19 pandemic?
Just like WHO, the Indian gov’t says only specific people need to wear a mask, however a doctor at the epicenter of Covid-19 in Wuhan, says something different
Covid-19: Jharkhand Nagrik Prayas condemns the Centre’s inefficiency in implementing the lockdown
Prem Verma, Convener, JNP writes statement saying that the ill-prepared lockdown was a disastrous decision for the vast migrant force
COVID19 – Central govt advisories, notifications, guidelines
A comprehensive resource for all relevant documents released by the Centre in relation to COVID-19
India should stop flying blind: John Hopkins COVID report
The report suggests that health care workers safety be prioritised and surveys on immunity building be conducted for better visibility
Covid-19: What’s in a name?
The WHO has laid down specific guidelines for the naming of infectious diseases
Stay where you are, UP govt tells migrants
CM asks neighbouring states to ensure migrant workers from UP, get facilities in situ
Covid-19: Telemedicine, online counseling helps people tide over nationwide lockdown
Governments and private companies are making sure people can consult doctors from their homes and avail counseling to reduce stress and anxiety
Covid-19 Lockdown: Migrant workers begin to leave city in a painfully long walk home
They have lost jobs, homes in the city, and there are no interstate busses or trains to take them back to their villages
Covid-19: Cops beat up bank employee, delivery boys and even a fire fighter!
The haphazard way of announcing the nationwide lockdown may have given local lower level cops a virtual carte blance to physically assault anyone on the street.
Covid-19 stigma: Medical professionals ostracized and evicted from rented homes
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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