Examining healthcare in India

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swissinfo.ch journalist Susan Misicka reports from India on the availability and affordability of medicine. Along the way she meets doctors, pharmacists and patients.

This content was published on March 19, 2013 - 11:00

Not content to mind her own business, Susan studied journalism in Boston so she’d have the perfect excuse to put herself in other people’s shoes and worlds. When not writing, she presents and produces podcasts and videos.

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