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World Bank approves $1 billion emergency funds for India to tackle coronavirus outbreak
•The World Bank has approved $1 billion emergency funding for India to help it tackle the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed 76 lives and infected 2,500 people in the country
World Bank approves first $1.9 bn for poor countries battling virus; President David Malpass says could provide up to $160 bn assistance
•World Bank President David Malpass predicted the bank could provide up to $160 billion in assistance over the next 15 months.
Coronavirus Ourbreak: Writer Ryan Murphy donates supplies from Netflix show Pose to help combat COVID-19
•In a bid to combat the coronavirus, Ryan Murphy swapped fiction for fact, donating medical supplies from the set of his hit Netflix series to a New York hospital
IAF aircraft brings medical supplies to China, takes back 112 Indians from coronavirus hit Wuhan city
•The flight had 23 people from Bangladesh, six from China, two each from Myanmar, Maldives and one from South Africa, USA and Madagascar.
Allow access to medical experts, relax information restrictions says UNHR investigator to North Korea
•The UNHR investigator said North Koreans are malnourished, have stunted growth, and more vulnerable to COVID-19.
WHO warns of global shortage, price gouging of medical equipment to fight coronavirus; asks companies, govts to inscrease production by 40%
•The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned of a global shortage and price gouging for protective equipment to fight the fast-spreading coronavirus and asked companies and governments to increase production by 40 percent as death toll rises globally.
Amazon bars one million products for attempting to price-gouge customers; masks, respirators sold at higher rates
•Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer has faced scrutiny over the health-related offers on its platform
US sanctions have targeted all Iranians, says country’s health minister Saeed Namaki as cost of imported medicine rises
•With Iran's economy in free fall after the US pullout from the nuclear deal and escalated sanctions on Tehran. Prices of imported medicines have soared as the national currency tumbled about 70 percent against the dollar. Even medicines manufactured in Iran are tougher to come by for ordinary Iranians, their cost out of reach for many in a country
Private Healthcare in India Part I: Artificially-inflated cost of medicine, consumables make non-govt hospitals inaccessible to most
Menakarao •Inflated medical bills, artificially increased costs of medical supplies and consumables have hampered access to private healthcare in India.
Private Healthcare in India Part III: Enforcing Clinical Establishment Act, capping drug costs can help regulate, reduce hospital bills
Menakarao •Clinical Establishment Act requires the Centre to set a range of rates for healthcare services. But neither the central nor any state govt has done so.