🚨Landmark circular by IRDAI for cashless claims.

⦿ Pre-authorization during admission to be done within 1 hr. Insurers to implement systems by 31st July 2024.
⦿ Final authorization during discharge must be within 3 hrs - IF NOT, then insurer needs to settle 100% of the claim

Insane! remember nearly 1/2 of Delhi lives in slums & works outdoors in informal sector. cant imagine fate of construction & daily wage laborers, sanitation workers, etc.
This is a climate emergency! Govt needs to treat this on same footing as a natural disaster!

Groups most exposed to outdoor heat stress are those without access to cooling equipment at home. Without adequate recovery at night, daytime heat stress is even more dangerous.

Any way you cut the pie, thermal injustice in India is caste injustice.

I don’t remember Delhi hitting 49.9 c in the decades I have lived in the city. Extreme heat is an equity issue because upper middle class and rich can turn to ACs and pay the electricity bills even if they need to cut down on other things. The poor can’t and they work outdoors.

Are people dying this year in #India 's deadly #heat ? No data. During the first intense #humidheat spell over east wetbulb may have inched close to danger mark. Over NW India, air temp is way too high. How are the poor and vulnerable dealing with it?
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The sheer amount of Chewing Tobacco surrogate ads during the world cup finals (also throughout the tournament) was nauseous. Though leaders in the oncology community need to take notice and push harder legislation. #kamlapasand and #vimalpanmasala are killers.

Pramesh CS

“The whole (diagnostics) industry is a mess. They’re treating home collection like a food-delivery service”. tinyurl.com/3unjrt82 #healthcare #IndiaHealthcare #OnlineDiagnostic

1 year of Karnataka’s Shakti, free bus travel for women:

5% point increase in women in the formal labor force

Savings of Rs 680-1300 monthly for women

309.5 cr increase in GST collection due to women spending saved money

Free mobility for women is good for the economy!

THIS is the famous over-regulation of pvt healthcare sector that IMA, Assn of Healthcare Providers of India(AHPI), lobby group of pvt hospitals, complains about
It's the LEAST regulated
Only 24 of 1100 pvt hospitals/nursing homes in India's capital have fire safety certificate

Researchers & funders really need to talk more about the effects of 'over-research' on people & communities in Africa. Being researched again & again (even by well-meaning researchers), without any tangible change, can bring more harm than good to people & communities.

Only 24 of an estimated 1,100 nursing homes in the national capital have a fire safety certificate.

Hindustan Times
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goo.gl/alerts/hMEFUe #GoogleAlerts
The intent to kep you silent is what the BIG FOOD wanted.
Hope India's scientists also follow the route Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 took.
Dr R Hemalatha, Director, ICMR-NIN, Hyderabad ICMR - National Institute of Nutrition ICMR FSSAI Ratna Bhushan Dinesh C Sharma Rema Nagarajan

This is why nothing beats empathy.

A damning study reveals that a mere 2% wealth tax on top 0.04% of the population can generate an annual tax revenue equivalent to 2.45% of GDP. The potential revenue from this proposal is overwhelmingly large, despite sparing 99.96% of the population from any taxation burden.

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Horrific update from Gaza‼️

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF International) strongly denounces this bloody attack that comes just a few days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to halt all military operations in Rafah. We reiterate our urgent call for an immediate and

How difficult is it 2 display names, qualifications and registration no of docs working in d casualty National Medical Commission? d requisite qualifications for any specialist is deliberately made ambiguous 2 help corporate hospitals,though qualifications and competence never go hand in hand.

Desperation to keep announcing new schemes not bothering to see if earlier, similar scheme is working
Announcing/ribbon cutting more fun
Nitty gritty of making something work is too much work?
Just like new AIIMS announcements while many barely functional
See this👇 great story

Great story on how govt announces schemes with great fanfare and then underfunds them quietly

Billboard Governance: Modi government underfunded 72% of 906 central schemes in its last tenure. One out of every five schemes got less than half the funds promised. Read the story by angrygal & Shreegireesh Jalihal.
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the things people are going through for no fault of theirs