When we visit doctors, we hope they can help us and care for us as people. As human beings, overall. But that just isn’t the case for a majority of Indian women. A 2019 study published in the British Medical Journal showed the obvious disparities that women face when trying to access the healthcare system. The study, conducted by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Indian Statistical Institute, Harvard University, and the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, found that out of the 23,77,028 outpatients who visited the AIIMS facility from January 2016 to December 2016, only 37 per cent of the total were women and the rest were men.