public healthcare system

India Spends Mere 1.29% Of GDP On Health, Public Hospitals Running Without Doctors

The Manmohan Singh government had set a target to increase health spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2017. But statistics show that this goal…

Delhi’s Healthcare System Crumbles Under COVID Onslaught, Kejriwal Urges Centre To Increase Beds

Over the past few days, the cases of coronavirus in the national capital have been spiking at a "mind-boggling" rate, along with the COVID-19 fatality…

India's Fragile Healthcare System May Lead To Longer Lockdowns

The COVID-19 pandemic is putting huge pressure on the already-fragile Indian healthcare system. As Shruti Rajagopalan and Abishek Choutagunta write in a Mercatus working paper…