Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The Modi government’s catastrophic failure to control tuberculosis
Health / Reportage
The Modi government’s catastrophic failure to control tuberculosis
Vidya Krishnan
How a medicine shortage endangered people living with HIV
Health / Commentary
How a medicine shortage endangered people living with HIV
Jyotsna Singh
Health / Excerpt The Indian government used the pandemic to craft a political image and failed to save lives Vidya Krishnan, Sarah Nabia
Health / News India did not have a vaccination hesitancy crisis till the government mismanaged COVID-19 Akshay Tarfe
Health / News Citizens collect data as government obscures oxygen shortage deaths based on technicalities Chahat Rana
Health / News COVID-19, steroids and diabetes—why mucormycosis is now a deadly epidemic in India Chahat Rana
Health / News How India and the UNHCR failed to provide healthcare and vaccination for Chin refugees Kimi Colney
Health / News How Punjab and the centre allowed hundreds of PM-CARES ventilators to lie unused for months Jatinder Kaur Tur
Health / News COVID-19: Is our pre-vaccination screening good enough to catch infections and comorbidities? Chahat Rana
Health / Books Bringing superheroes into the fight against COVID-19 misinformation Sathyaraj Venkatesan, A David Lewis
Health / News In 2020, health workers counted their COVID-19 casualties because the government did not Chahat Rana
Health / News Will the government link Aadhaar to COVID-19 vaccination? More importantly, should it? Chahat Rana
Health / News Despite price caps hospitals are paying hefty sums to meet daily oxygen needs Chahat Rana
Health / News How a healthcare system partial to privatisation fails the poor Aathira Konikkara
Health / News Amid COVID, centre’s conflicting guidelines were disastrous for India’s eye-donation programme Akhilesh Pandey
Health / News Epidemiologists say India’s centre for disease control withheld COVID-19 data since pandemic began Vidya Krishnan
Health / News Lack of clarity and centralisation of procurement exacerbate PPE crisis in Maharashtra Aathira Konikkara
Health / News Government’s initial COVID response betrayed its own road map for “biological and public health” disasters Sagar
Health / News Centre stalls demands of protective-gear manufacturers; HLL retains procurement monopoly amid COVID pandemic Vidya Krishnan
Health / Commentary India’s coronavirus crisis was decades in the making Vidya Krishnan
Government / Reportage Government apathy leaves India’s AIDS programme in crisis Mandakini Gahlot