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Public health in India: hospitals and primary care, mental health, sanitation, nutrition and maternal health, with sourced figures and solutions.
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India has 0.75 psychiatrists per 100,000 people against a WHO minimum of 3. Tele-MANAS proves the demand exists, DMHP spends less than half its budget, and most insurance policies still don't cover mental illness despite a 2017 law that says they must.
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NFHS-6 shows child stunting fell to 29.3%, down from 35.5%. But nutrition-specific schemes only fix a third of the problem. The other two-thirds runs through sanitation, maternal anaemia, and dietary diversity, where India's own data shows the real gaps remain.
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Tokyo, Singapore, and Copenhagen achieved tap water you can drink without filtering or boiling. India's 70% urban boil-rate reveals the infrastructure gap. Here is how those cities built safe tap water, what India's pipeline looks like, and five citizen actions to accelerate the standard.
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Sushruta cataloged 121 surgical instruments and described nasal reconstruction and cataract removal in the 6th century BCE. Germany's Carl Ferdinand von Graefe, the father of modern plastic surgery, credited Sushruta directly. India built the world's first surgical textbook. The question is what we are doing with that legacy now.
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India's nursing workforce is overwhelmingly Dalit, overwhelmingly female, and almost entirely invisible in public recognition. Savita Hira Bodhi represents the hundreds of thousands of Dalit nurses who staff the hardest posts in India's health system - and who the system has systematically undervalued for generations.
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Dr. Binayak Sen spent three decades providing medical care to Adivasi communities in Chhattisgarh. In 2007, he was arrested on sedition charges under UAPA. In 2011, the Supreme Court granted bail amid a global petition signed by 22 Nobel laureates. His case is a window into India's conflict-zone health equity crisis.
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India's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is building a national digital health ID system, the ABHA card, that aims to link every citizen's medical records across hospitals, labs, and pharmacies.
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Ayurveda is 3,000 years old and increasingly the subject of clinical trials at AIIMS, CSIR, and Harvard. From turmeric and ashwagandha to Panchakarma and prakriti genomics, where does ancient wisdom hold up under scientific scrutiny?
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Rural India has few specialist doctors. This article looks at Indian healthtech startups using AI diagnostics to give villagers access to specialist-level screening and decision support.
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India has about 9,000 psychiatrists for roughly 200 million people with mental health conditions. This article looks at the treatment gap and the stigma that keeps people from seeking help.
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Explore how India's regional cuisines, street food culture, festival foods, and Ayurvedic traditions create a shared heritage that unites 1.4 billion people across 28 states.
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India's push to mainstream AYUSH alongside modern medicine deserves evidence-based scrutiny. A balanced look at the benefits, risks, and the path forward for integrating traditional and modern healthcare.
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One in seven Indians lives with a mental health condition, yet 70-92 per cent receive no treatment. With just 0.3 psychiatrists per lakh population and crushing stigma, India's mental health crisis demands urgent attention, from school counsellors to workplace policies to national destigmatisation campaigns.
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India built over 110 million toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission, the largest sanitation programme in human history. But the gap between toilet construction and actual usage reveals a more complex story of progress, persistent challenges, and the long road to truly ending open defecation.
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