By Dr Azad Moopen India has the world’s highest number of medical colleges, and the second highest number of doctors. Yet, segments of the country’s large population of 1.3 billion remain underserviced by healthcare systems. The doctor population ratio in India is 1:1456 while the WHO guidelines recommend 1;1000. The same is true regarding the … Read more
Is a wellness centre a hotel or healthcare facility? And should the services offered at these places – weight reduction, ayurvedic treatment or yoga – face the same tax treatment as those offered at top hotels? In what is set to increase the goods and services tax (GST) burden at several healthcare centres, a recent … Read more
In his view, travel is likely to pick up when people start travelling for improving their health/treatment of ailments to wellness centres like Atmantan and Nature experiences to offbeat locations. (Image source:: Atmantan Wellness Centre) Amidst the COVID-10 second wave, a meaningful push for India’s travel and hospitality industry has been largely missing. People are … Read more
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry‘s national telemedicine initiative eSanjeevani has crossed 1 million teleconsultations on Monday. The eSanjeevani is being used by patients in over 550 districts of India, the health ministry said in a statement. Over 10 per cent of the users of eSanjeevani are aged 60 and above. Close to around one … Read more