印度免费医药计划备受欢迎

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VOA Chinese, Aug 31, 2012.
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 120831/1499040.html

Two consecutive paragraphs:

"印度中央政府为免费医药计划提供百分之75的资金，其余部分由各州自己解决。州政府还必须为此建立庞大的网络，修建仓库和实验室，检验由印度大约1万2千家制药厂生产的各种药物。

"据世界卫生组织统计，印度平均每1万人有9张病床和6.5名医生，相比之下，中国每1万人有42张病床和14.2名医生，英国是33张病床和27.4名医生

(2) Anjana Pasricha, India to Give Free Medicines to Nation's Poor. VOA, Aug 1, 2012
http://www.voanews.com/content/i ... s-poor/1452271.html
("government [to] implement[] a $5.4-billion plan to provide free generic drugs to all patients * * * provided by India’s thriving generic-drug industry * * * from October" 2012)

Note:
(a) Uttar Pradesh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh
(literally meaning "Northern Province")
(b) Kerala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala
(a state; section 1 Etymology)
(c) Tamil Nadu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu
("land of Tamil people"; a state whose capital is Chennai)

The photo caption of the report referred to "Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai."
(d) Rajasthan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthan
("the land of kings"; the largest state of the Republic of India by area)