Mumbai (Maharashtra) India, July 28: When you don’t have much to work with and the stakes are high, you start thinking differently. That’s basically how healthcare innovation works in India. Instead of copying expensive Western solutions, people here create original fixes—sometimes in makeshift garages, sometimes in sweaty...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) India, July 25: Ten years ago, if you were trying to sell health insurance door-to-door in a small Indian town, you’d mostly hear: “We’ve never fallen sick badly enough to need it.” People talked as if real illness was something distant—something that happened to someone else’s family. That’s not so...

Thane (Maharashtra) India, July 20: India’s healthcare system has been a fragmented, ad-hoc system for decades. A patient buys health insurance from one company, gets their blood test done at another lab that has no connection with the policy, consults with a doctor who has their reports at a completely different place, and then...

Director, KRA Healthcare Healthcare has a peculiar way of exposing the cracks beneath even the most well-planned urban lifestyles. Gated communities may have surveillance systems, security personnel and world-class amenities, yet when a medical emergency strikes, preparedness often gives way to panic. It is this overlooked reality that...