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Rescuing Health
A Call to Citizens and Doctors
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The medical system in India has been progressing at a frenetic pace. Our doctors and hospitals can feel justifiably proud of their capabilities. However, with health care coming increasingly under the control of the corporate sector, the price citizens pay for medical treatment is exorbitant. Barely 15% of our people can afford it while nearly 50% must rely on meager services which are provided by the government.
Where do we go from here?
Kavery Nambisan’s recently published book, A Luxury Called Health is the personal account of a doctor’s journey through a career spanning four decades. While speaking about her experience as a medical student, her surgical training in England and working as a surgeon in remote parts of rural India, she observes how the medical system has evolved through the years to where we are today. Dr Kavery Nambisan and Dr Mario Vaz engage us in a much-needed conversation that looks at interesting and introspective possibilities of how we can maintain good health.
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Kavery Nambisan
Kavery Nambisan was born in Kodagu district, Karnataka. She has worked predominantly in the rural parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and was a governing council member of the Association of Rural Surgeons of India.
Kavery was married to the poet and writer Vijay Nambisan. She lives and works in Kodagu district.
Mario Vaz
Mario Vaz is Professor of Physiology at the International Medical School, Ramaiah Bangalore campus. He obtained his MBBS and MD (Physiology) from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore. After his graduation he worked for close to 3 years at the Emmaus Swiss Leprosy project in Palamaner, Andhra Pradesh. Following his MD, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia for two and a half years. He retired as the Head of the Dept of Physiology at St. John’s Medical College, and was also Head of the Division of Health and Humanities Divisions and the Division of Epidemiology at the St. John’s Research Institute. For two decades he curated the Major Gen. SL Bhatia Museum of the History of Medicine at St. John’s Medical College. His extensive academic publications span a range of topics including experimental human physiology, epidemiology and public health, bioethics and the history of medicine.
