Tag: India healthcare
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Preventive Healthcare at Scale: Lessons from India’s Cervical Cancer Vaccination Drive
The Indian healthcare landscape has generally been seen in terms of the scale of hospitals, doctors, pharmaceuticals and digitization within the industry. However, one of the country’s most significant successes in the realm of public health may prove to have been made not in terms of treating disease, but rather in preventing it. An illustration ... -
After announcing vaccination drive from Jan 16, centre to take call on shipping facilities
Shipping Facilities: The government announced that the vaccination drive in India will commence from January 16 and now it is finalising the shipping facilities and other such needs to ensure supply of vaccines to every state. This will be the largest vaccination drive in the world against coronavirus where nearly 30 million people will be ... -
India’s healthcare sector facing shortage of frontline workers amid surge in COVID-19 cases
India’s healthcare workers are risking their lives as they battle Coronavirus infections at the frontline. Overburdened with work, several doctors and medical staff are also putting themselves at risk of virus infections. While medical professionals have raised multiple concerns over the lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), hygienic quarantine facilities, and mental health support as ...


