https://amitforhealth.in/Essays by Amit Kumar on respiratory care and the business of Indian pharma.en-inhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-man-who-beat-his-own-hospitalhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-man-who-beat-his-own-hospitalThu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530In Dombivli, an elected corporator assaulted doctors for not having a bed his own corporation never provided. The CCTV also caught the reason nothing will change.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-poster-will-not-save-youhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-poster-will-not-save-youFri, 19 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530India bolts the law to the casualty wall and calls it protection. The resident walking past it at 3am needs a punished attacker and a guard at the door.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-wages-of-fearhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-wages-of-fearTue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530Mobs that beat India's doctors imagine they are punishing the powerful. The people they actually sentence are the patients no one will dare to treat.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-right-to-inhalationhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-right-to-inhalationTue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530Why India's lung crisis demands a new patient right.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/gasping-for-reliefhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/gasping-for-reliefWed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530A queue of 1.2 lakh people for a live-fish “cure” exposes the chasm between India's world-class medicine and the patients it never reaches.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-united-airwayhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-united-airwayMon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530What a 10-year-old's three lost years can teach two specialities that rarely speak.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/montelukast-friend-or-enemyhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/montelukast-friend-or-enemyWed, 27 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530A diagnosis-led note for clinicians, pharma leaders and policymakers.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-long-wait-to-say-asthmahttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-long-wait-to-say-asthmaSat, 23 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530India carries about a tenth of the world's asthma but more than two-fifths of its asthma deaths. The reckoning begins in childhood.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-inhaler-nobody-picks-uphttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-inhaler-nobody-picks-upFri, 22 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530India has one of the world's highest asthma burdens. It also has one of the lowest rates of inhaled corticosteroid use. These two facts are not unrelated.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-breath-india-keeps-losinghttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-breath-india-keeps-losingThu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530Twenty-six years inside the inhalation therapy market: why the deepest pockets keep failing, and the patient who pays for what we won't say.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/deep-pockets-shallow-breathshttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/deep-pockets-shallow-breathsWed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530Why most companies fail in India's inhalation therapy market.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-ethics-of-influencehttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-ethics-of-influenceSun, 17 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530Navigating pharma partnerships without compromising care. A note to young doctors, from someone who has spent a career on the other side of the clinic door.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-wrong-best-sellerhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-wrong-best-sellerThu, 14 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530Why a SABA-plus-ipratropium combination breaking into India's top 20 pharmaceutical brands is a warning, not a milestone.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-sales-model-nobody-changedhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/the-sales-model-nobody-changedWed, 13 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530Everything around Indian pharma has been rebuilt by technology. The way it sells has barely moved in seventy-five years.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/nebuliser-in-every-homehttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/nebuliser-in-every-homeTue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530The quiet medicalisation of middle-class India.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/zoya-deserves-ice-creamhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/zoya-deserves-ice-creamFri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530Steroid phobia, and the cost of misunderstanding the script. Why India's most misunderstood medicine sits unused on the shelf.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/every-breath-mattershttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/every-breath-mattersThu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530World Asthma Day 2026 asked for anti-inflammatory inhalers for everyone with asthma. For me, that has not been a theme. It has been sixteen years of work.https://amitforhealth.in/essays/expensive-airhttps://amitforhealth.in/essays/expensive-airThu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0530Eight in ten inhaler patients aren't getting the medicine their doctor prescribed. That is a failure of the system, not of the patient.