ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846

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Novel Health Approaches Emerging from the Covid-19 Crisis

Novel public health experiments from Maharashtra in the pandemic times, involving co-production of healthcare, interventionist regulation of private hospital rates and popular initiatives to ensure social accountability of private hospitals, demonstrate significant potentials to advance people-centred health system changes.

Permanently Temporary

Despite their stellar role during the COVID-19 pandemic, ASHA workers face neglect and discrimination by a callous government that draws upon the free labour of women. It is therefore not surprising that the ASHA workers’ unions are today one of the most militant organisations of women and form a substantial part of the trade union movement in the country.

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