{"id":348987,"date":"2020-05-01T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=348987"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:49:27","slug":"solarisation-of-primary-healthcare-centres-in-rural-india-key-to-tackle-covid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solarisation-of-primary-healthcare-centres-in-rural-india-key-to-tackle-covid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Solarisation of primary healthcare centres in rural India key to tackle Covid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solarisation of all un-electrified primary healthcare centres (PHCs) in rural India is the key to tackle Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Outlining the steps needed to get to that goal, a collective of think tanks, research groups, healthcare service providers and renewable energy experts have come together to highlight the case for solarising of PHCs in rural India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ongoing Covid-19 crisis has highlighted several existing systemic gaps in services, especially to the rural poor. Inadequate healthcare infrastructure is one of them. Over 39,000 sub-centres (the first point of contact between the primary healthcare system and the community) serving 230 million people in rural India lack electricity,\u201d said Harish Hande, Founder &amp; Chairman, SELCO Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solarisation of all un-electrified primary healthcare centres (PHCs) in rural India is the key to tackle Covid-19 pandemic. Outlining the steps needed to get to that goal, a collective of think tanks, research groups, healthcare service providers and renewable energy experts have come together to highlight the case for solarising of PHCs in rural India. \u201cThe ongoing Covid-19 crisis has highlighted several existing systemic gaps in services, especially to the rural poor. Inadequate healthcare infrastructure is one of them. Over 39,000 sub-centres (the first point of contact between the primary healthcare system and the community) serving 230 million people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}