This week in health: all about the new surrogacy rules, the role and resistance of ASHAs and how the Neuralink brain chip works.
There are no two ways about this thing, election fever is in the air and with advancing summer, the earth has begun to sizzle not just with the heat, but also early election preparedness. In an election year, in the run-up, particularly, it would be criminal to let go of opportunities to insist on future course of actions for political parties, as far a policy goes. In the health sector, all political parties would do well to hone their understanding of health care policy and what the country actually needs at the moment. A more robust fund allocation, for sure, but there are several sectors that former Union Health Secretary Sujatha Rao has brought to our attention, and hopefully, that of the political parties with this article: Electoral season and restructuring the health system. Manifestos are doubtless useful documents as they reflect the…