India, Jan. 21 -- India has a "once in a generation" opportunity to transform healthcare for 1.4 billion people, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should "seize" the moment created by high public trust and booming economic growth to implement sweeping reforms, the editor of The Lancet medical journal said.

Richard Horton's direct appeal to the prime minister comes as he released a major commission report identifying poor quality care, fragmented delivery and governance failures as the main barriers to universal health coverage - barriers that have created conditions where hundreds of thousands are estimated to die from substandard healthcare by some estimates. Horton sat down with HT for an expansive discussion on the report ahead of its ...