I was quoted in the Khaleej Times article written by Ramesh Prabhu.

In 2016, two IIT Mumbai alumni set out to reinvent the generic pharma industry. In 2017, they set up their first brick-and-mortar store in Mulund. Today, they have more than 40 stores in the story. Can they survive JanAushudis and other startups? A HE report. "The term branded generic is an oxymoron," says Siddharth Gadia, CEO of Generico, a startup which aims to bring generic drugs directly from the manufacturer to consumer.

September 23, 2019, marked the completion of PM-JAY's first year. PM Narendra Modi had launched PMJAY on September 23 2018, from Ranchi, Jharkhand. Healthcare Executive looks at the key milestones of the scheme. During the year gone by, National Health Agency has covered substantial ground. 10.3 crore e-cards have been issued to beneficiaries and treatment amounting to Rs. 7,490 crore was pre-authorised in different parts of the country.

The government has an unambiguous trajectory to achieve the target of $5 trillion economy mark by 2024-2025. Will healthcare play a significant role in achieving this target? One forty million Indian households are expected to enter the middle class in the next decade and will drive a two-fold increase in healthcare consumption according to 'The India Life Sciences Report 2019' published by Bain in collaboration with CII.

There's a new king in the Indian digital healthcare sector, Doxper, the digital pen, created by Shailesh Prithani, Pawan Jain and Randeep Singh. Doxper has already taken hold in nearly 1600 independent clinics and 20 of the country's top corporate hospitals, including three chains. The company is processing close to 500K case sheets every month and has so far, through its platform, digitized case sheets of over 3.25 million unique patients, with a total of nearly 5 million records.

The ever-increasing requirement for space, particularly in metropolitan cities, has led to the creation of vertical constructions. Laws exist at different levels, fusing different types of constraints to designers and occupiers of the building. A large number of guidelines do exist, but it's not known to everyone in the domain.

Major public programmes are massive enterprises operating at gigantic scale made even more challenging in an extremely diverse country marked by poor infrastructure. The critical delivery machinery of project and policy implementation that comprises the entire bureaucratic hierarchy is saddled with challenges from workforce shortage, to fit of capabilities, administrative problems, inherent biases, lack of proper incentives and monitoring.

As a doctor, Omana prizes her right to prescribe medicines to patients. But, because she lives in a small town, where doctor-patient conflicts are frequent, exercising that right is not always easy. This year, it could get even harder, depending on how fast the government implements the National Medical Commission Act.

The introduction of NEET was supposed to be a giant leap forward in medical education. However, the controversies regarding the standard entrance examination still refuse to die — a HE report. When Mohini Jain, a young student from Meerut approached the Supreme Court in 1991 for relief against the high fees being charged by a private medical college in Karnataka, little did she know the impact it would have on the education sector.

How different is holiday pricing of hospitals from surge pricing of cab aggregators like Ola/Uber? Today many companies charge a premium for weekend services when there is more demand. However, is it fair for the healthcare sector and emergency services? According to the CEO of a prominent tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, many managements don't have much choice in this matter, because doctors are not willing to work on weekends.

It was bedlam for two hours at the venue for the Common Entrance Test counselling for medical and dental courses on Friday. Parents of many candidates who had reached the venue as early as 6 am from various parts of the state, got infuriated when the counselling process was delayed for two hours for the inauguration of the Central Placement Cell at the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) centre in Malleswaram.

In spite of numerous hurdles, an under-16 soccer team from the city is putting its best foot forward for the upcoming 44th International Children’s Games in Manama, the capital of Kingdom of Bahrain. The International Children’s Games take place under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, and are held in a different city each year, taking the form of Children’s Olympics.