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The Indian Express: Online Path To Healthcare

August 23, 2020

SOURCE: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/coronavirus-covid-19-online-path-to-healthcare-6566951/

Online Path to Healthcare

The Indian Express, K Madan Gopal and Suryaprabha Sadasivan, 23 August 2020

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The Indian healthcare system has evolved much over the last decade, owing to the adoption of new technologies as well as systemic changes and emphasis on service quality. However, healthcare standards are neither uniform nor inclusive across the country.

At one end of the spectrum, are state-of-the-art private facilities with advanced testing and treatment technologies catering primarily to people in urban areas, and on the other, there is a void where the impoverished struggle to receive even the most basic care.