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Corrections and clarifications

The editorial, "A foundation for public health" (April 4, 2006) said the expenditure on public health was less than one per cent of GDP. A reader cites the

Economic Survey which gives the figure as 1.35 per cent. Prasanna Hota, Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, writing on "National rural health mission" in the Indian Journal of Pediatrics (Volume 73, Issue 3, March 2006) says, "It is proposed to increase the expenditure in health sector from 0.9% of GDP to 2 - 3% of GDP over the next five years." So our figure is also right.

Mahmood Madani (Uttar Pradesh) belongs to the Rashtriya Lok Dal, and not the Rashtriya Janata Dal, as we said in "17 Rajya Sabha members sworn in" (April 4, 2006).

In "Welcome to America" in The Hindu-Magazine (April 2, 2006, page 4), that looked at the problems new Indian students in the U.S. face, a reader points out that the author's reference to the USIS is incorrect. It should be AIRC, he says. The United States Embassy says that in 1999, the previously independent U.S. Information Agency (USIA) was placed within the U.S. Department of State as the public diplomacy wing, and the U.S. Information Service (USIS) offices around the world were renamed as American Information Resource Centers (AIRC).

The article "Interpreters bridge language divide for foreign patients" (Chennai, March 23, 2006, page 4), on how hospitals in Chennai manage their foreign patients, had a reader raising a query. The reference to the language Swahili was incorrect, and it should be Kiswahili, he said. Lisa B. Tiemann, Committee on African Studies, Harvard University, says: "Swahili and Kiswahili are the same language. Outside of East Africa it is generally referred to as Swahili; however, a linguist would refer to it as Kiswahili."

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