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Public health system in India facing crisis

Thursday, 31 August 2017 5:55 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 31 August 2017 5:56 PM ]

In this photograph taken on June 18, 2016, Indian Doctor Madhu Meeta (C) and a staff nurse talk with a drug addicted patient at The Sadbhavna Rehabilitation Centre at Raikot some 40kms from Ludhiana. (AFP)

Sanjay Sethi
Press TV, New Delhi

India is struggling to cope with a public healthcare crisis. As a country of over 1.3 billion individuals, India is short of some 500,000 doctors. As our correspondent, Sanjay Sethi reports, many blame the crisis on lack of resources and the government’s failure in spending more on the health sector.

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