High out of pocket expenses on health is impoverishing some 55 million Indians annually, with over 17 per cent households incurring catastrophic levels of health expenditures every year, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report from March 2022.
What can be done to decrease this load? Many Indians are worried as the Covid epidemic cost them dear. However during that very epidemic the owner of a small nursing home pointed out that admission in his set up would cost much less t...