Having spent over four decades in the healthcare sector, both as an oncologist and founder-entrepreneur of 26 cancer hospitals across the globe, I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the Covid-19 pandemic is the biggest lesson humanity has ever learnt
We are living in extraordinary times. A virus has brought down the world to its knees this year. More than 119 million people worldwide have been infected and over 2.6 million have died (as on March 15, 2021)
Healthcare is a fundamental human need and its easy access, quality and cost effectiveness are stepping stones to achieve it. Universal health coverage implies that people receive high quality health services without facing financial hardship.
76,000 doctors graduate every year in a country with a population of 130 crore. The corrupt regulatory authorities for medical education in India have reduced the healthcare system in rural areas to a point where the poor walk for kilometres on end to find a doctor
With a pathetic public health system, around 70% of India's population look to the private sector for their healthcare needs. Sadly, the public-private relationship has never been on a healthy partnership mode.
There's no denying the fact that the Covid pandemic is at a tipping point. As the virus spreads thick and fast, we are, more or less, as clueless about its comportment as we were during the time of its onset.
Today, as the world battles a war of far more ghastly circumstances and fatal consequences, Churchill's words ring truer than even before, albeit in a different context, that of the Covid 19 pandemic
Last June I was half hoping that I contracted Covid-19 to overcome the paranoia and the suspense that has taken over our lives. I was also expecting the infection to be mild and short lived
It was December 2019 when we first started hearing about cases of Covid-19 in China's Wuhan and the following outbreak, leading to shutdown of the entire city.
My doubts about contracting the virus began when my husband tested positive five days prior to my test. And I was right
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest can also fall with a sudden crash is a wise old saying that Coronavirus taught me in reality.
It was like any other Sunday when I wind down with my cricket before starting a gruelling week. I played and got back home. The next day I was feeling tired and felt uneasy with a slight sore throat at around
