Aravind Eye Care System, founded by Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy, developed a sustainable healthcare model combining cross-subsidy, high-volume cataract surgery and rural outreach. Its approach has made affordable, high-quality eye care accessible at scale while influencing healthcare organisations in India and abroad. In 1976, at the age of 58, a retired government ophthalmologist with rheumatoid arthritis…
Karnataka FDA has cancelled 16 drug licences and suspended eight others following an investigation into an alleged fake-medicine racket in which medicines, machinery, packaging material and forged labels worth about ₹5.05 crore were seized.” Karnataka’s Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FDA) has cancelled the licences of 16 wholesale and retail drug establishments and suspended eight…
The Wall Street Journal called him the Henry Ford of heart surgery. Harvard Business School made his hospital a case study. The World Economic Forum recognised his model as transformational for global healthcare. But the number that matters most in Dr Devi Prasad Shetty’s story is not any of these recognitions. It is ₹95,000. That…
The queue outside a Netranjali eye camp at a truck stop in Maharashtra begins to form before the team sets up equipment. The men standing in it are long-distance truckers spending 12-hour days staring at roads. They often deal with uncorrected vision problems; they have neither the time nor the money to fix them at…
Every September 8, World Physiotherapy Day is commemorated throughout the world. As expected, the theme for the 2026 year, which is proposed by World Physiotherapy, the global organization representing over 600,000 physiotherapists in 128 member countries, relates to the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases and strokes using physiotherapy and physical activity. Cardiovascular disease…
The World Health Organisation has, on 5 September 2026, certified that Thailand has achieved elimination of rubella as a public health problem, making Thailand the seventh country in the South-East Asia region of the WHO to achieve this goal. This certification has been granted following an assessment of the country’s data on rubella surveillance, laboratories,…
In this edition, Clear Cut speaks with Rohit Prasad, Chief Executive Officer at HelpAge India, to trace India’s eldercare journey—from relief-based welfare to rights-based, community-driven ageing support— highlighting why economic security, healthcare access, and social inclusion are critical to building a dignified, age-friendly India. Personal Journey My career has spanned research and consulting, public health,…
This Case is one of several “recovery-to-livelihood” accounts published as the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment marks six years of its national anti-substance-abuse campaign According to a September 3, 2026, Press Information Bureau (PIB) release from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, a government-run rehabilitation centre successfully treated a 29-year-old man for alcoholism….
Someone, somewhere, says, “Let me try again,” and behind every recovery is that moment. For Simhon a 26-year-old Scheduled Tribe beneficiary from Karbi Anglong district of Assam, that moment came after years of personal struggle. Simhon had received an education up to intermediate level and had once aspired to join the police service — a…
Time to Reimagine Elder Care, Dignity and Inclusion India is undergoing one of the most profound demographic transformations in its history. For decades, we have celebrated the demographic dividend of a young nation. Today, however, another equally significant reality is unfolding before us, the rapid growth of the elderly population. Ageing is no longer a…
