Reporting on mental health

28 Oct 2019

Mental Illness to Finally Be Covered Under Health Insurance, HIV/AIDS Still Excluded 

16 Sep 2019 

Press Council’s New Guidelines Ask Media to Not Sensationalise Reports on Suicide 

24 July 2019 

India’s Colleges, Universities Need to Mind Students’ Mental Wellbeing Too 

3 June 2019 

IMA Vaguely Acknowledges Caste Discrimination in Medical Education 

28 May 2019 

Even After Payal Tadvi’s Death, Doctors’ Body Unconvinced of Caste Discrimination 

27 Mar 2019 
Psychiatrists’ Body Takes Notice of Politicians Using Mental Illness as Insult 

28 March 2017 

Why the Mental Healthcare Bill Is an Example of Healthy Lawmaking Mar 28

Reporting on health insurance

The Indian government announced in 2018 that India was going to have “the world’s largest healthcare programme.” It soon turned out that the healthcare programme was in fact a health insurance scheme for about 500 million of India’s poorest. The scheme also excludes about 700 million Indians. As of 2019, the central government has agreed to put in about $ 1.14 billion into the scheme.

Here are some of my news breaks about the government’s health insurance scheme and also about health insurance in India in general.

28 Oct 2019
Mental Illness to Finally Be Covered Under Health Insurance, HIV/AIDS Still Excluded

18 Sept 2019
Ayushman Bharat Completes a Year, Centre ‘Recovers’ Rs 1.1 Crore From Fraud

29 July 2019
Confusion as Centre Says It Won’t Be Revising Ayushman Bharat Rates

5 July 2019
Budget 2019: Spearheaded by Ayushman Bharat, Swachh Bharat, Health Gets a Boost

28 June 2019
Ayushman Bharat Claims Touch Rs 3,077 Crore, Gujarat Tops List

2 Feb 2019
Video: How Ayushman Bharat Got a Silent Boost In The Budget

Watch | How Ayushman Bharat Got a Silent Boost in the 2019 Budget

1 Feb 2019
Budget 2019: Ayushman Bharat Gets Rs 6,400 Crore, But to Benefit Private Sector 

9 Jan 2019
In the Wake of Ayushman Bharat Come Sops for Private Hospitals

11 Oct 2018
Video: Does India Have the Funds to Run the World’s Largest Healthcare Scheme?

29 June 2018
To Prevent Fraud, Insurance Companies to Pre-Authorise 47% Procedures Under New Scheme

18 June 2018
Despite Pending SC Verdict, Ayushman Bharat Insurance Using Aadhaar as Identifier

12 June 2018
Government ‘Freezes’ Health Insurance Rates, Ignores Private Hospitals’ Protests

7 June 2018
New Health Insurance Scheme Is Unscientific: Private Hospitals to Centre

27 Feb 2018
Coverage for Genetic Diseases Welcomed, but Patient-Groups Await a New Insurance Framework 

3 Feb 2018
NITI Aayog Comes to the Rescue As Health Ministry Clueless on ‘World’s Largest Healthcare Programme’

1 Feb 2018
Video: Budget 2018: Decoding the ‘World’s Largest Healthcare Programme’

Budget 2018: Jaitley’s ‘World’s Largest Health Programme’ Rejigs Flailing Old Ones

Reporting on HIV/AIDS

28 Oct 2019
Mental Illness to Finally Be Covered Under Health Insurance, HIV/AIDS Still Excluded

17 Sep 2018
A Year Since Stock-Outs, India Continues Slow Roll-Out of Child-Friendly HIV Drugs

7 June 2017
Government Approves Child-Friendly HIV Medication

22 Mar 2017
‘As Far as Possible’ Is as Far the Government Will Go in Committing to Treat HIV Patients