Affordable Treatment For Poor

A doctor in Hyderabad has been treating people for just Rs 10 with the intention to provide medical care at an affordable price to the economically backward classes of the society.

With the number of deaths in Bihar crossing 160 this month due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Japanese Encephalitis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called it unfortunate and a "matter of shame for the nation."

Stressing the need to provide affordable health care to the poor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called on start-ups to make medical equipment indigenously to reduce dependence on import.

A 3-year-old girl, whose father is undergoing cancer treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital, died in the winter cold out on the footpath where her family had been living ever since her father's cancer treatment began five months ago. The toddler's tragic death points to a far older issue - hundreds of families visit Mumbai for cancer treatment at the ...

Hundreds of poor cancer patients who have been coming for treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, have spent days on the footpath outside the hospital. They live in makeshift tents for the duration they have to be in the city as they cannot afford to live in a hotel.

Subhasini Mistry toiled for years as a manual labourer, a housemaid and a vegetable-seller. At 70, she can look back with satisfaction at a two-storeyed, whitewashed building, the realisation of her dream to build a hospital for the poor - all because she couldn't afford proper medical treatment for her husband and became a widow at 23.

A private hospital, a for-profit micro-finance company and an information technology company have joined forces to attempt what state and local governments have struggled to do for decades - bring quality, affordable medical treatment to India's hundreds of millions of poor people.

A private hospital, a for-profit micro-finance company and an information technology company have joined forces to attempt what state and local governments have struggled to do for decades - bring quality, affordable medical treatment to India's hundreds of millions of poor people.

A doctor in Hyderabad has been treating people for just Rs 10 with the intention to provide medical care at an affordable price to the economically backward classes of the society.

With the number of deaths in Bihar crossing 160 this month due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Japanese Encephalitis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called it unfortunate and a "matter of shame for the nation."

Stressing the need to provide affordable health care to the poor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called on start-ups to make medical equipment indigenously to reduce dependence on import.

A 3-year-old girl, whose father is undergoing cancer treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital, died in the winter cold out on the footpath where her family had been living ever since her father's cancer treatment began five months ago. The toddler's tragic death points to a far older issue - hundreds of families visit Mumbai for cancer treatment at the ...

Hundreds of poor cancer patients who have been coming for treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, have spent days on the footpath outside the hospital. They live in makeshift tents for the duration they have to be in the city as they cannot afford to live in a hotel.

Subhasini Mistry toiled for years as a manual labourer, a housemaid and a vegetable-seller. At 70, she can look back with satisfaction at a two-storeyed, whitewashed building, the realisation of her dream to build a hospital for the poor - all because she couldn't afford proper medical treatment for her husband and became a widow at 23.

A private hospital, a for-profit micro-finance company and an information technology company have joined forces to attempt what state and local governments have struggled to do for decades - bring quality, affordable medical treatment to India's hundreds of millions of poor people.

A private hospital, a for-profit micro-finance company and an information technology company have joined forces to attempt what state and local governments have struggled to do for decades - bring quality, affordable medical treatment to India's hundreds of millions of poor people.