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Sustainable Development

How The Govt Plans To Dispose 484 Tonnes Of Bio-Medical Waste Everyday

Only 15% of all biomedical waste is hazardous, but the treatment of all waste is important, not just for the public but also healthcare workers. It’s also an environm...

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Documentary / Shorts

Healthcare To Become A $150 Billion Industry By 2017, Says Jagruti Bhatia of KPMG

Jagruti Bhatia, Senior Advisor-Healthcare, KPMG spoke to BW|Businessworld's Sapna Bhardwaj on the sidelines of Healthcare Summit 2015. She spoke as to how KPMG is associate...

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Health

Doctors Punjab Health Spend More On Salaries Less On Care

Two separate reports relating to health and healthcare in Punjab released last week have underlined that the poor, especially in rural areas, remain the most vulnerable to ...

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Human Rights

Policy Shame: Sick, Rare And Ignored

Rare diseases are a diverse set of over 7,000 different conditions that afflict an estimated 1 in 20 Indians and 350 million people worldwide. Put simply, it means that eve...

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Human Rights

Energy New Report Indicates Scale Of India’s Exclusion From Progress

Up to 43% of women in the working age (about 153 million) in India only do domestic work, indicating the scale of their exclusion from the workforce.

* A quarte...

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Health

Stanford-Led Study Underscores Huge Gap Between Rich, Poor In Global Surgery

The number of surgeries performed worldwide has grown steadily, particularly in the developing world, yet there remains an enormous gap in surgical care between rich and po...

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Bollywood

Kajol Has An Appeal For The Women In The Country

With International Women's Day round the corner, Bollywood actress Kajol on Monday urged women not to ignore their health and look after their well-being.Kajol and anchor-c...

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Health

Why India Needs Its Quack Doctors.

Toward the end of last year, reports emerged that the Liver Foundation, a health NGO in India’s West Bengal state, had started working with local quack doctors. The t...

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Health

Maternal Care And Beyond

The India Home Healthcare (IHHC) launched a campaign “Care for her”, to emphasise on the bond of love shared between mother and her child. The campaign also aim...

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Health

Hospitals Focus On Doing No Harm

Last week, I reported on the problem of preventable harm in hospitals. It has been estimated that each year between 98,000 and 440,000 people die as a result of preventable...

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