As work advances to hand over several primary health centres, district health centres and tehsil centres to the private sector in Punjab, a storm of protest has erupted among doctors, healthcare workers and patients. While the government defends the move as a step toward improving healthcare quality, many fear that privatisation will ultimately deny the underprivileged their constitutional right to free healthcare.

The Grand Health Alliance has been on the streets for 21 consecutive days, staging a sit-in........

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