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The road to Universal Health Coverage in India

June 04, 2025 5:50 pm

Amid a surge in investments by business entities and a decisive shift towards an insurance-led framework, India’s health system stands at an inflection point

Universal Health Coverage should be about systems that guarantee care, not just building medical centres

Insurance isn't enough: Universal Health Coverage must guarantee care

December 15, 2024 7:24 pm

What use are the vouchers if there is inadequate supply or poor quality provisioning of services? The state should do the hard stuff — invest in health, provide good governance and build the capacity to enforce laws, regulations, rules and contracts

A quintile-wise analysis of survey data revealed that the cumulative participation of middle and upper-middle-income groups in public health insurance programs continues to be higher than low-income groups.

India is still some way from achieving universal health coverage. Here’s why

August 08, 2024 5:22 pm

Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana aimed to address gaps in the tax-funded national health insurance scheme started in 2008. However, for the poor and poorest populations, out-of-pocket expenditures remain

Five years of Ayushman Bharat: A shield for the vulnerable

August 09, 2023 9:53 am

AB-PMJAY guarantees cashless secondary and tertiary inpatient care for almost all health conditions to its beneficiaries. This ambitious scheme has extraordinary potential to protect people from serious health hazards

India’s G20 presidency: An agenda for healthcare

December 21, 2022 11:01 am

India should use its presidency to draft a model policy focusing on primary healthcare that commits to a universal, affordable, inclusive and just healthcare system.

PGI doctor features among top 20 global researchers on universal health coverage

January 20, 2021 10:53 pm

A bibliometric analysis of research on UHC conducted from January 1990 to September 2019, which was recently published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, identified authors, journals and countries where maximum volume of high-quality research on UHC is published.

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Putting the ‘universal’ in healthcare

March 05, 2015 3:41 am

India needs prudent compromises to achieve its health coverage goals.

The primary focus

December 12, 2014 5:41 am

A national health assurance scheme could start with basic services.

Universal health cover: NAC set to submit suggestions

June 26, 2013 2:57 am

The National Advisory Council (NAC) is set to submit its recommendations

NAC wants private players to fill gaps in Universal Health Coverage

May 12, 2013 3:05 am

The National Advisory Council,led by Sonia Gandhi,has endorsed most recommendations of the High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage

Parichay Kumar, Superintendent of Police (Patna East), who reached the spot, said: "We have been talking to the driver of Rajkumar Yadav. Prima facie, it looks to be a case of land dispute and money transactions."

RJD leader and property dealer Rajkumar Yadav shot dead in Patna

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RJD leader Rajkumar Yadav was shot dead in Patna, Bihar by unidentified assailants. The police suspect a land dispute and money transactions to be the motive behind the murder. No arrests have been made yet. Yadav was attacked while returning home and succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.

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