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India Launches Health Care Reform

23/09/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, India Launches Health Care Reform

Modi government introduces ambitious new health care scheme

Modi government introduces ambitious new health care scheme.

India is introducing an ambitious new health care scheme today, designed to provide cover for almost half its population.

Also in the programme: A look ahead to the United Nations General Assembly; And is Turkey the hair transplant capital of the world?

(Image: Operation Theatre Doctor Mufazal Lakdawala treating obesity specialist at a Mumbai hospital on 4th October 2008. Credit: Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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