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๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—บ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—–๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—š๐—œ๐— ๐—ฆ ๐—ฅ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜

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“Enough is enough,” thundered Dr. Sushila Nayar, her voice cutting through the hall.“No more free PG seats for MGIMS boys and girls. If they want postgraduate degrees, they must first serve two years in the villages.” She meant it. In 1969, Dr. Nayar had built MGIMS on a dream: to raise doctors who would live … Read more

Covid and Community Transmission

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I see three challenges ahead vis-ร -vis COVID-19 in Indiaโ€™s rural areas. First, many rural healthcare workers are exhausted and burned out. Second, lifestyle diseases like diabetes, high blood-pressure and heart problems have become more common in rural India in the last decade or so. Third, officials and healthcare workers have to contend with the spectre … Read more