Universal access to medicines:evidence from Rajasthan, India

Universal access to medicines:evidence from Rajasthan, India WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health | July–December 2014 | 3 (3–4) Sakthivel Selvaraj, Indranil Mukhopadhyay, Preeti Kumar, Malini Aisola, Pritam Datta, Pallav Bhat, Aashna Mehta, Swati Srivastava,...

Centre moots health as a fundamental right

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has suggested making health a fundamental right, similar to education. This key proposal in the draft National Health Policy, 2015, suggests making denial of health an offence. Thirteen years after the previous health...

Concern over private sector tilt in India’s new health policy

The Indian Government’s draft national health policy, which many experts view as a step away from universal health coverage, is out for public consultation. Dinesh C Sharma reports.The much-awaited health policy of India’s right-wing Government, which took...