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How post-Covid times have triggered changes in India's healthcare industry
Dr Sulaiman Ladhani •The hospitals are taking initiatives to increase their capacities, especially in Tier II and Tier III cities
Budget 2020: Policy reforms, additional outlay only way to boost life science, healthcare and pharmaceutical industry
Hitesh Sharma 2 •Given the ambition of the government to make India a $5 trillion economy in the next five years, pharmaceutical and life science could be the ‘Target sector’ in Budget 2020 for reforms,
Sushma Swaraj assures more medical visas to Pakistanis week after allegations of 'cold-blooded politicking'
Ians •Snubbing objections from Islamabad, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday assured visa to four more Pakistanis, including a three-year-old boy, seeking medical treatment in India.
Maharashtra govt to launch single window portal for information on medical tourism
•The Maharashtra government is planning to launch a website on medical tourism in the state and provide necessary information about treatments and costs to foreign patients.
14 companies come together to set up a Telangana medical devices park
Ians •The facility would further strengthen Hyderabad's leading position as in life sciences and pharma industry
Egyptian Eman Ahmed to be discharged from Mumbai's Saifee Hospital on 4 May, will fly to Dubai
•Egyptian national Eman Ahmed, who was until recently believed to be the world's heaviest woman, will be discharged on Thursday from the Saifee Hospital here, where she underwent treatment for severe obesity.
Incentivise private sector health care in Budget for greater penetration in the country
Ajai Kumar •The government must consider incentivising various health services and initiatives in the private sector so that we can plough back money and invest in more resources and infrastructure
Why commercial surrogacy only in govt hospitals can end fear of touts
Muralidharan •Those opposing commercial surrogacy including the government seem to have an unstated, oblique objection in addition to the ones that have been voiced loud and clear like the legal issues bedevilling surrogacy commissioned by foreigners.
Misplaced priorities?: Medical tourism raises more questions than dollars
Fp Archives •Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma on Wednesday launched the National Medical and Wellness Tourism Board to promote medical tourism from foreign countries into India.
As Geeta returns home, India issues visa to girl from Pakistan for transplant operation
Fp Archives •In a humanitarian gesture, India has issued a visa to a five-year-old girl from Pakistan suffering from chronic liver disease to undergo a transplant operation in the country.