The Silent Syndicate

Your hospital. Your doctor. Your diagnosis. All quietly owned by global capital.

India's healthcare system is being bought piece by piece-hospitals, pharma companies, insurance players, diagnostic labs. The buyers are not Indian. And their bottom line is not your health.

In The Silent Syndicate, award-winning investigative journalist Ameer Shahul exposes how the behemoths of global finance have staged a silent takeover of India's most vital sector.

Inside this book:

• How is big finance systematically acquiring Indian hospitals, pharma companies, insurance players and diagnostic labs?

• Why do healthcare costs keep rising-and who is really profiting?

• How is India's regulatory framework failing to keep pace with foreign capital flows?

• What is the philosophical shift that has moved the patient out of the centre of healthcare and replaced them with capital?

• What does this mean for India's long-term healthcare sovereignty?

This book is for you if:

• You have ever questioned why healthcare in India costs what it does

• You follow Indian public policy, economics or investigative journalism

• You work in healthcare, finance or public health

• You believe access to healthcare is a right, not a commodity

Urgent, meticulously researched and impossible to ignore, The Silent Syndicate is essential reading for anyone who has wondered who is really running India's healthcare system-and why.