India’s Doctors Call For Universal Healthcare by 2020

India’s Doctors Call For Universal Healthcare by 2020

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14 March 2011

LONDON/DELHI—India’s rapid economic growth should be harnessed to provide healthcare for all by the year 2020 according to doctors and health system leaders who met together at the London School

Vinod Paul

Vinod Paul

LONDON/DELHI—India’s rapid economic growth should be harnessed to provide healthcare for all by the year 2020 according to doctors and health system leaders who met together at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to launch a special “India Edition” of the medical journal The Lancet. Professor Vinod Paul from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi told Sarah Maxwell how this should be achieved and why universal healthcare in areas such as reproductive and child health is a top priority.