{"id":349060,"date":"2020-05-01T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349060"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:14:12","slug":"solar-power-can-improve-healthcare-in-rural-india-say-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-power-can-improve-healthcare-in-rural-india-say-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power can improve healthcare in rural India, say leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Nearly 20 leaders from think tanks, research groups, renewable energy companies, sustainable development organisations and industry associations on Thursday said India&#8217;s weak healthcare infrastructure in rural areas are being exposed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the government of India, they called for action, making the case for solarising all unelectrified sub-centres in rural India.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has highlighted several existing systemic gaps in services, especially to the rural poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Nearly 20 leaders from think tanks, research groups, renewable energy companies, sustainable development organisations and industry associations on Thursday said India&#8217;s weak healthcare infrastructure in rural areas are being exposed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to the government of India, they called for action, making the case for solarising all unelectrified sub-centres in rural India. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has highlighted several existing systemic gaps in services, especially to the rural poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349060","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}