Delhi reached out to private hospitals to join Centre’s PMJAY health insurance scheme

New Delhi: The Delhi government is gearing up to implement the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PMJAY) and is onboarding large corporate hospitals to help reach the Centre’s free health insurance scheme to more than 654,000 families.  However, big corporate hospitals have raised concerns over delayed payments and low package rates. The…

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India’s antibiotic-resistance crisis prompts a drastic measure: state regulators to lose licensing power

New Delhi: India plans to take away the power of state drug regulators to grant approvals to manufacture antibiotics as the country faces the world’s worst public health threat from antimicrobial resistance developed by overuse and abuse of medicines. Antimicrobial medicines used to treat infections from pathogens—including bacteria, viruses and fungi—will now be categorized “new…

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