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(From Business Today (India))
Byline: Alokesh Bhattacharyya, Payal Sethi
I am feeling much better now, doctor." The speaker is 100-year-old Jairoh Devi, and her rasping voice brings a smile to the faces of those gathered around her: a sundry crowd of relatives, interested villagers and health workers. "Please don't let her die without seeing her great granddaughter's wedding," jokes one of her relatives. This could well be a scene from a Bollywood melodrama but it isn't. Jairoh Devi is for real, as is her recovery. She lives in Pratapgarh (pop: 700), a village in Haryana, one of the 30 in the state that serves as a setting for TeleDoc, a pilot project ...