medical care

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One man injects safety into health centers

[Article Source : Business Standard]

Of the 5 billion medical injections administered in India every year, 62 percent are unsafe – startling figure that brought Marc Koska, inventor of non reusable K1 syringes, to India

This is how the article starts –…

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Outsourcing Health and Education Knowledge: This Time India is the Sender

Update from the Editors: This project has actually be reported on before by Prerna. You can read it here. What is new is the inclusion of an education component.

In an interesting role reversal, The Government of India along with its…

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Plastic for the Eco-Era

Plastic is a daily companion, even in the remotest of villages. The roads may be not be paved, means of transport may be scarce, but there is bound to be a cluster of small stores that inevitably sell the same…

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[Guest Post]: Making LifeSpring come alive

The following is a guest post by Jason Ye, a MD/MBA student at Columbia University and an InSITE fellow alongside yours truly. Jason visited India during his spring break on a project organized by Columbia’s International Development Club and worked on pro bono…

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Is Doctor’s knowledge the major limiting factor to quality healthcare?

Why is the quality of medical care substandard in India? Is it because of a lack of medical professionals, or the fact that the public sector improperly trains many of them? One paper that has recently been published tries to test…

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