Waning visions of equity: Healthcare privatisation in India and its many discontents
Contrary to the Bhore Committee’s vision of an egalitarian and humane healthcare framework, India has systematically stifled public healthcare, endorsing in its stead an essentially unregulated private sector, straying further from the goal of effectuating the constitutional right to health
Vivek Divan heads the Centre for Health Equity, Law & Policy at the Indian Law Society, Pune. He has worked at the intersections of law, health and sexuality for almost three decades, both nationally and internationally, including leading efforts to challenge section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and to draft a Bill that became India’s HIV/AIDS Act in 2017.
