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Access denied: poor struggle to access healthcare

The cost of healthcare is spiralling Government spending on healthcare is shrinking. The impact on the poor is catastrophic: They are being wiped out in their struggle to access
The majority of illnesses Indians suffer are linked to poverty and poor living conditions. Children fall ill because they are not vaccinated. Patients die because the health centre is too far away or because life-saving drugs are not available. Surely it’s an injustice that people must accept illness and death because they cannot get even basic treatment?  Read the current issue of Agenda, Infochange....

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