Hyderabad: The primary healthcare system in rural Telangana is in dire straits as the shortfall in primary health centres increased to 19 per cent in 2021-22, from 12 per cent in 2020-21, as per the Rural Health Statistics 2021-22 report released last week by the Union health ministry. As per the Centre’s report, there is an 84 per cent shortfall …
The two consecutive waves of COVID-19 and Mucormycosis have left us shattered. The key role of health-care facilities in the rural areas is to provide regular and comprehensive health-care needs guided by the World Health Organization ’s principle of Universal Health Coverage, “ensuring that all people have access to needed health services of sufficient quality to be effective while also …