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Shweta Chakraborty

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The author is Jr Correspondent.

Latest Articles By Shweta Chakraborty

Covid-19 Impact: Private Health Care Sector Fearing For Survival; Seeks Govt. Help

Drop in business makes the private healthcare players puts a big question-mark on their survival post-pandemic. Around 70 per cent of the healthcare services in India is provided by private healthcare players

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Diagnostic Business Under COVID Stress

Leading diagnostic chain Dr Lal PathLabs has seen an 80 per cent drop in business, Dr Arvind Lal tells BW Businessworld. Lal was recognized with Padma Shri in 2009, the fourth highest civilian honor, for his contributions to Medicine.

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Covid-19 Impact: Online Insurance Sees Bumper Business

Online insurance portals are witnessing bumper sale—350-500 additional sale of insurance on a daily basis—translating into 30-40 per cent jump compared to the pre-lockdown period

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Mylab Join Forces With Syngene Amid Covid-19

Rise in Covid-19 test kits demand makes Pune-based Mylab collaborate with industry leaders like Syngene, an internationally reputed contract research and manufacturing organization, which supports R&D programs from lead generation to clinical supplies

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E-pharmacy: Caught In A Logjam

Delay in formalisation of draft rules is causing confusion and panic among stakeholders of an otherwise booming e-pharmacy business

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Prioritise Health Sector: Gautam Khanna, Ficci Co-Chair Health Services Committee

If the government can give healthcare a priority sector status that would help the organisations apply for a loan at reduced or subsidised rate, says Gautam Khanna, Co-Chair, FICCI Health Services Committee and CEO of P D Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Center

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Google Plans To Launch Cloud Healthcare API, Aims To Make Life Easier With Health Data

The Healthcare API is a service that facilitates the exchange of data between healthcare applications and solutions built on Google Cloud

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Covid-19 Puts Financial Strain On Private Healthcare Players: Dr Nandakumar Jairam

Dr Nandakumar Jairam, Co-Chair, FICCI Health services committee and CEO, Chairman & Group MD, Columbia Asia Hospitals discusses the struggles of private healthcare providers during the pandemic with Shweta of BW Businessworld

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Invest Upto 5 % Of GDP In Health Sector: Dr Harish Pillai, Chair, FICCI MVT Committee

My sincere hope for India 2.0 post-COVID is to adopt a national strategy to invest upto 5 per cent of GDP in the Health sector, says Dr Harish Pillai, Chair, FICCI MVT Committee, member of FICCI Health service committee and Chief Executive Officer of Aster India, Aster DM Healthcare

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Healthcare: Time For A Booster Dose?

The Covid-19 outbreak has exposed the limitations of India’s healthcare set-up, but it has also thrown up opportunities for the sector as a whole

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