AES and Gorakhpur's BRD hospital: A case study in why primary healthcare needs beefing up

AES cases haven't yet come up this season in UP, but BRD is crammed already with patients, some of whom have travelled 100 km 

Silent sufferers

Indifferent primary health care in developing countries could lead to mental depression taking the form of a mass illness

Simply put: No doctors in 70% PHCs in Bihar

AES in Bihar: A case of rural healthcare in crisis

More than 70 per cent of Bihar's PHCs function without any medical officer or nurse

Odisha confirms cholera outbreak; Kerala on alert

About 250 diarrhoea-prone areas have been identified in Rayagada district

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Religious planning

Everybody coughs in Kumaon

... but the government has done nothing to monitor the prevalence of tuberculosis in the area.

Brain disease plaguing Muzaffarpur children is not encephalitis

Encephalopathy is a biochemical disease, while encephalitis results from a viral infection 

Health care needs state control

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Sordid state

Love kids, live longer

Prescription done, how about the cure?

Women's Day: These 900,000 health workers have no reason to celebrate

No end in sight for these accredited social health activists who have not received remuneration for months 

New mobile app may help in addressing heart disease in rural areas

A group of Indian and Australian scientists has developed and tested a mobile application-based system that promises to help doctors and health …

DMF should look beyond infrastructure

Sanctions under a non-profit trust for the develpoment of mining disrtricts needs to ensure adequate resources to improve the quality of and …

Farrukhabad children deaths show the rampant mismanagement in government hospitals

49 children have reportedly died in a month in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district hospital due to lack of oxygen supply, but the …

World Health Day: Indian tale of unfulfilled goals

India short of five lakh doctors and the situation is worse than Vietnam

A healthy child, a healthy nation

Astana Declaration: Not just health, but affordable health for all

UN’s 192 member countries agree to strengthen primary healthcare on the 40th anniversary of Alma Ata Declaration

COVID-19 effect: Healthcare costs push over half billion into extreme poverty

A wide gap in affordable healthcare access, combined with reduced income can exacerbate crisis

Over 56.8 million people need palliative care each year: WHO

By 2060, the need for palliative care at the end of life is expected to nearly double

Taking big business to the trash cans

Broken promises

'Health for all Indians by 2000' remains a myth

More than half the world's population does not receive essential health care services

Under such circumstances, achieving universal health coverage by 2030 seems like an ambitious target