Maternal and neonatal mortality rate high despite improvement in childbirth practices
A study conducted in public health centres in Uttar Pradesh shows complying to essential childbirth practices did not significantly alter …
Good scheme in bad health
A little known community monitoring scheme could prove handy for the new government, which is readying to revamp the country's healthcare system
Burden of birth
Maternal deaths in Bihar go unreported, while state claims maternal mortality ratio has decreased
Children of a lesser god
Ankur Paliwal finds out why Shravasti district is the worst place for a child to be born in
Government launches new health programme for adolescents
Earlier schemes were confined only to sexual and reproductive health, say health officials
Get your own vaccine
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private …
Degree without honours
Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health
Health ministry merges TB programme with rural health mission
TB control supervision will suffer, say officials manning the programme
The Gates accounts
CBI gets tough on rural health mission scam in Uttar Pradesh
How Central funds meant for upgrading healthcare facilities are siphoned off
Chhattisgarh to outsource diagnostic services in government hospitals
Activists say these centres will end up serving outside patients at the cost of hospital patients
Referred to die
Infant deaths in West Bengal’s only super specialty hospital underscrore an urgent need to improve healthcare facilities in rural areas
Mission health for all
What prime minister needs to do to make good his promise on making 12th Five-Year Plan a health plan
Uttar Pradesh engages Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health, agriculture and financial services to the poor
Health activists wary
Pentavalent vaccine approved in five more states. Health ministry brushes aside safety concerns
Four children in Kerala reportedly died immediately after the vaccine was administered
No infrastructure for universal health coverage in India, says report
Infrastructure for primary healthcare has decreased in the past decade
Healthcare services for adivasis in a shambles
Pregnant, anaemic, adivasi women do not even get iron tablets
Education policy for kids under six
Experts say the plan misses diet, care and ignores children with special needs
Bihar’s ambulance service staff go on strike
They have not been paid salaries for six months; private companies operating services under PPP model blame government
Why infant deaths continue in north Bengal
Over 350 infants have died in spurts at the Malda district hospital in the past few years; malnourishment, overcrowding and almost non-existent …
Budget brings no relief to health sector
FM does not mention Universal Health Coverage, combines rural and urban health missions while making allocations
Political parties use rural health mission scam stick to beat Mayawati government
Bahujan Samaj Party leader defiant blames UPA for the mess
Out of pocket health spending has risen in rural India: study
Even after adjusting inflation, spending has increased 25 per cent in six years
MDG-led healthcare policy not comprehensive, says report
In a Union budget wish list, civil society organisations call for course correction in policy and improving access to healthcare in India