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India Risks Widening Healthcare Divide Without Ethical AI Safeguards, Experts Warn

India Risks Widening Healthcare Divide Without Ethical AI Safeguards, Experts Warn

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New Delhi, February 2026 — As India races to integrate artificial intelligence into its healthcare system—through telemedicine expansions, AI diagnostics, and massive data digitization under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)—a growing chorus of experts is sounding the alarm: without deliberate focus on equity, ethics, and inclusion, the technology could exacerbate rather than bridge the country’s deep healthcare inequalities. India Risks Widening Healthcare Divide Without Ethical AI Safeguards, Experts Warn India’s digital health transformation is among the world’s fastest. Initiatives like ABDM aim to create unified digital health records for hundreds of millions, while AI tools are already boosting diagnostic accuracy by 20-30% in some areas and enabling early detection of diseases like tuberculosis and cancer. The Economic Survey 2025-26 positions AI as a “force multiplier” for addressing care gaps, and events such as the upcoming India AI Impact Summit 2026 emphasize frugal, inclusive applications in healthcare. Yet, prominent voices argue that unchecked deployment threatens to create a two-tiered system—benefiting urban, digitally connected populations while marginalizing rural, low-income, and underserved communities. “AI offers extraordinary potential …

‘Public sector must play a dominant role in health care’| India News

‘Public sector must play a dominant role in health care’| India News

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A comprehensive review of India’s healthcare system released on Wednesday urges the nation to establish publicly provided care as the primary vehicle for universal coverage, arguing that governance failures and fragmented delivery — rather than a lack of funding — are now the biggest barriers to health equity for 1.4 billion people. ‘Public sector must play a dominant role in health care’ The Lancet Commission report, based on a survey of 50,000 households across 29 states, outlines a roadmap to achieve universal health coverage by 2047, the centenary of India’s independence. It concludes that while India has become a global powerhouse in vaccine and pharmaceutical manufacturing, its domestic health system is crippled by uneven quality and inefficiencies that leave millions vulnerable. “Health system reforms are not merely technical — they are profoundly political,” the report states, acknowledging that vested interests and ideological divides often stall progress. To overcome these hurdles, the commission proposed six structural reforms. It called for empowering citizens in local governance, decentralizing authority to districts, and scaling up technology to coordinate care. …

Citizen participation Vs lack of intent: Meeting on tackling malnutrition exposes fault lines

Citizen participation Vs lack of intent: Meeting on tackling malnutrition exposes fault lines

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AMRAVATI: Citizen participation is necessary to strengthen the healthcare system and prevent maternal and child deaths in the tribal-dominated Melghat region in Amravati district, secretary of the public health department Nipun Vinayak said on Saturday. Citizen participation Vs lack of intent: Meeting on tackling malnutrition exposes fault lines “Along with the creation of necessary facilities to prevent maternal and child mortality, the health system needs to be strengthened at the village level, with active participation of citizens,” a press release issued by the district collectorate said, quoting Vinayak’s address during a review meeting comprising officials from six teams which toured different regions of Melghat on Friday. The teams visited the region to assess health infrastructure and address malnutrition, pursuant to orders issued by the Bombay high court (HC) on November 24. But petitioners of a clutch of Public Interest Litigations (PILs), whose interventions in court led to the directive and who were present during Saturday’s meeting, said the emphasis on citizen participation belied crippling problems regarding lack of inter-departmental coordination and government neglect. Focus on …

Junior doctors at mass convention

Junior doctors at mass convention

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Five days after withdrawing their hunger strike, the protesting junior doctors in West Bengal on Saturday organised a mass convention to strategise their next move to seek justice for the R G Kar rape-murder victim and ensure that the state government fulfils all their demands. The six-hour-long mass convention held at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s ‘Platinum Jubilee building’ was attended by doctors from various state-run medical establishments, apart from representatives of civil society. The West Bengal Junior Doctors Front (WBJDF) announced that their protest movement would continue and decided to organise a rally to the CBI’s office here on October 30 demanding justice for the RG Kar victim. The participants, including Debashish Halder, Kinjal Nanda, Rumelika Kumar, Aniket Mahato, also discussed the “threat culture” allegedly prevalent in several state-run hospitals, besides steps to be taken to exert pressure on the state government to make it fulfil their demands. “We have called this mass convention to seek justice for our sister, who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Hospital on August 9,” said …

RG Kar rape-murder: Doctors call out ‘protracted judicial process’, slow CBI probe; list 10 demands | Latest News India

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West Bengal’s junior doctors, who resumed their agitation on Tuesday in the wake of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder, accused the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of slow investigation. In a statement, the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front also appeared to question the Supreme Court, saying they are “disappointed and angered by this protracted judicial process.” People demand justice for the rape and murder of a resident doctor at a government hospital in early August.(AP file photo) The doctors, who called off their weeks-long strike on September 19 after a series of marathon meetings with Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, said the state government hasn’t fulfilled their promises. “We understand that many questions are on everyone’s mind today. We too had many questions as we looked toward the Supreme Court. We wanted to know what the CBI and the Supreme Court had to say regarding the murder and rape of Abhaya. However, we realized just how slow the CBI’s investigation is. We have seen many times before that the CBI has been unable …