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Three overlooked reasons why India’s healthcare indicators remain abysmal
Scroll.in January 2, 2015 The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government announced in July that it would roll out a National Health Assurance Mission, whose aim would be to provide some free medical services to reduce “out of pocket spending on … Continue reading
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The Indian medical devices industry stays foreign
On the one hand, India plans to expand its public healthcare system to more than 500 million people by 2020, and on the other, doesn’t reduce costs of the devices that will form the spine of this system. Continue reading
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