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Amir Ullah Khan

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ARTICLES BY AMIR ULLAH KHAN

India’s healthcare system has very few doctors, but what is alarming is also the shortage of nurses and midwives. The government’s Periodic Labour Force Survey data (2018-19) shows that there are only 9 lakh doctors working as of now. (Photo: HT)

How to prepare for the next pandemic

9 min read . 10 May 2022

Real time data may pave the way for quick decision making. It may ensure India never runs out of hospital beds, drug supplies, oxygen cylinders and personal protective equipment (Photo: HT)

Why India’s health data needs a booster shot

9 min read . 14 Jan 2022

Data shows that the poor in states that have public health facilities spend at least 50% less on each hospitalization compared to the poor in backward states who avail private facilities.

Our health systems are creaking, but we can still fix them

10 min read . 09 Nov 2021

Policymakers are worried about public health, at least for the youth enrolled in educational institutions.

The case for reopening our colleges

10 min read . 10 Oct 2021

With vaccine hesitancy playing a huge part in the low vaccination uptake, the most optimistic projections estimate that India will vaccinate 40-50% of its population by December 2021. (Reuters)

Why states will now jostle for vaccines

8 min read . 22 Apr 2021

While full literacy and education for all is currently envisioned for 2030, this date now looks uncertain.raj k raj/ht

India’s hunt for the new Vision 2020

9 min read . 27 Mar 2021

Given the possibility of a second wave of covid infections, or the threat of a new mutated virus strain, one would have thought that health research would be given a major boost. But FY22’s ₹2,663 crore allocation represents a 34% decrease from FY21. (Photo: HT)

The health nudge is merely a mirage

9 min read . 04 Feb 2021

Several small firms, which hire nearly 90% of India’s workforce, now have complete impunity in hiring and firing employees. These are firms that hire less than 300 workers. (Photo: Hindustan Times)

Promise and pitfalls of new labour deal

9 min read . 30 Sep 2020

Even if the eventual covid-19 death toll is low, the disease could still play havoc with India’s prospects if it triggers a rise in the share of the population that grows up without adequate nutrition. (Photo: Raj K Raj/ Hindustan Times)

Nutrition is India’s next big headache

8 min read . 25 Aug 2020

A banquet hall that has been converted into an isolation facility for covid-19 patients, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Beyond Mumbai and Delhi, the new hotspots in India’s corona map

8 min read . 19 Jun 2020

(Left) A security guard sprays a worker with disinfectant as his colleagues use social distancing markers at the entrance to a factory in Sonipat, Haryana, and a trade union activists take part in a protest, which took place near the labour department in Bengaluru, against the increase in working hours of employees in various industrial sectors.

Why labour law rejig is no reform

10 min read . 13 May 2020

Medics, in protective suits, interact as police cordon off an area in Nizamuddin after some people showed coronavirus symptoms, in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

A 90-day action plan to beat back the virus

9 min read . 01 Apr 2020

Medical personnel attend to a patient in critical condition at a hospital designated for coronavirus patients in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province (Photo: AP)

How India can tackle the approaching storm

10 min read . 02 Mar 2020

An isolation ward (left) at a hospital in Hyderabad to treat coronavirus cases; and (right) workers from the disease control department disinfect a residential area in Ruichang of Jiangxi province

How India must tackle China’s killer bug

9 min read . 27 Jan 2020

The future appears bleak, given the lack of new investments, the rise of automation, the near stagnancy of manufacturing activity and a rising trend in hiring contract labour in the formal economy. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Why India’s labour is rejecting a new deal

9 min read . 06 Jan 2020

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India’s vision 2020 meets the real world

8 min read . 03 Dec 2019

In May, drug price regulator NPPA capped the rates of nine non-scheduled cancer medicines. As a result, the maximum retail prices of around 526 brands of cancer drugs has fallen by up to 90%. (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

India’s drug price fix is hurting healthcare

8 min read . 29 Oct 2019

India needs to think of vaping as part of a solution and learn from the empirical evidence being provided by various countries. (AP)

Opinion | India’s vape ban only deprives smokers of safer options

4 min read . 09 Sep 2019

With the code on wages, the hope is that compliance will improve. Workers will now need to remember just one national figure which they can fight for and demand. Photo: (Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Why minimum wage won’t fix India’s woes

10 min read . 13 Aug 2019

Past techniques for knee implant and stent price capping have, predictably, failed.

Opinion | Learning from the past on medical device pricing

4 min read . 26 Aug 2018

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