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India beats only Pakistan among 19 neighbours in improving health access

India at the bottom in BRICS group, 178th among 195 countries

India beats only Pakistan among 19 neighbours in improving health access
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The study–published on May 18, 2017–argued that inequality between states and the health sector that has failed to keep up with changing trends in diseases could be responsible for the widening gap in countries like India. Photo: Reuters

Vipul Vivek | IndiaSpend
India did better only than Pakistan over 15 years to 2015 among 19 countries in South and Southeast Asia (including China) by potential and actual healthcare access and quality.

The second largest and the fastest growing economy in the region, India saw its gap widening by 5.5 points, 1.4 points less than Pakistan, in 1990-2015, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of the Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index published in The Lancet, a British medical journal.