The business of sustainable development
While the Covid-19 pandemic will be always remembered as probably the biggest catastrophe in our living memory, at the same time the role of civil society, including the Indian diaspora, will keep our hope alive in the power of people to rise to cope with such challenges.
No country in the world can defeat Covid-19 by ramping up its healthcare facilities alone. India is no exception. Preventive measures like vaccination and adherence to Covid-appropriate behaviour have to accompany treatment.
While enduring images of the Covid-19 era are of doctors staking their lives to treat patients, some who lost their kith and kin carry privately nightmarish memories of doctors providing just minimal treatment and waiting till the fateful day.
Sustainable Development Report 2020 (SDR 2020 ) says the world needs to learn from good practices, focus on hunger hotspots, strengthen financing mechanisms, provide social protection and develop drugs to recover better from Covd-19.
If Dr Mukesh Batra is the country’s most famous homeopath, it’s because he has not only set up the world’s largest chain of homeopathy clinics…
After offering high-quality and affordable healthcare to millions of people, pioneers like Narayana Hrudayalaya, Aravind Eye Hospitals, Sankara Nethralaya and LifeSpring Hospitals are moving up the technology curve to expand their reach, improve services and make themselves more affordable.
Two Indian companies LifeSpring Hospitals and Reuters Market Light are among the ten global companies to bag this year’s World Business and Development Awards.
The health of employees is at a premium today. The bottomline of businesses is being increasingly determined by the preventive healthcare programmes that companies provide to their staff at the workplace.