The Mental Healthcare Bill, 2016 was recently passed by Rajya Sabha. The Bill would be repealing the existing Mental Health Act, 1987. Background There are around 6-7% of...
Since last year there is a growing concern over Hysterectomy being performed over women mostly poor women in India. Hysterectomies are elective surgeries that are sometimes recommended for...
There are three main elements of health care: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. However, the state infrastructure is unable to meet these three elements productively. This calls for dire...
The NITI Ayog has introduced the National Medical Commission Bill, 2016 which would be extending to the whole country recently in order to create world class educational system....
There has always been a lingering question so as to make Right to Health as a fundamental right similar to right to education. The draft national health policy,...
Right to Health is not included as an explicit fundamental right in the Indian Constitution. Most provisions related to health are in Part-IV {Directive Principles}. These are: Article...
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is free access to healthcare to all, enabled and guaranteed by the government and provided by public as well as private sector. UHC is...
India’s third {draft} National Health Policy was released in 2015. Prior to this, two National Health policies (1983 and 2002) had served in guiding the approach for the...
The deadline to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) expired in 2015. Out of the total 10 health targets, India was able to achieve or get close to...
In the constitution of India, items such as public health, hospitals and sanitation fall in the State list. However, the items having wider ramifications at the national level...
Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) allows the students to choose courses from the prescribed courses comprising core, elective/minor or skill based courses. The courses will be evaluated by...
As per the norms of National policy on education (1986), at least 6% of the GDP must be spent on education. However, successive governments have failed to achieve...
