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India Aims For Universal Healthcare By 2020

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LONDON & NEW DELHI—India can achieve universal healthcare for all its citizens by the year 2020 according to Dr A. K. Shiva Kumar, economist and advisor to UNICEF India in New Delhi, who is one of the editors of a special edition of The Lancet medical journal launched at a symposium in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He explains to Peter Goodwin that the growing Indian economy can provide enough funding to give everybody access to healthcare, despite obstacles to overcome.