Indian Healthcare Scheme Launched
Free health insurance for 100m of India's poorest families has been officially launched.
Free health insurance for 100m of India's poorest families has been officially launched. Vidi Doshi, Delhi correspondent for the Washington Post tells us how the scheme will work, and we find out how doctors are responding from Dr RN Tandon, general secretary of the Indian Medical Association. Also in the programme, we have a report from Beijing about how new US tariffs on Chinese goods are being received in China. Two of the world's biggest gold miners, Barrick and Randgold Resources are to merge. Adrian Ash of the online precious metals trader BullionVault explains the implications. We find out about the challenges around making safe the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility on the northwest coast of England. Plus our regular workplace commentator Pilita Clark considers the lot of the office intern.
(Picture: An Indian hospital. Picture credit: 成人快手.)
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- Mon 24 Sep 2018 14:32GMT成人快手 World Service except Australasia & News Internet