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 …

Health ministry merges TB programme with rural health mission

TB control supervision will suffer, say officials manning the programme

Degree without honours

Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health

The Gates accounts

Referred to die

Infant deaths in West Bengal’s only super specialty hospital underscrore an urgent need to improve healthcare facilities in rural areas

CBI gets tough on rural health mission scam in Uttar Pradesh

How Central funds meant for upgrading healthcare facilities are siphoned off

Mission health for all

What prime minister needs to do to make good his promise on making 12th Five-Year Plan a health plan

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

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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 …

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

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

ASHAs not enough to deliver healthcare to urban poor: study

'Women in urban slums need a basket of healthcare services to meet their needs'

Operation cover-up

Rat poison theory offered by the Chhattisgarh government to explain the sterilisation deaths is a facade, finds an investigation by Jyotsna Singh.…

How Rogi Kalyan Samitis play a role in ensuring self-reliant hospitals in India

The role of an RKS — or hospital management committee — to contribute to Aizawl civil hospital’s growth is worth noting

Push to create cadre of family doctors for rural India

Government's National Health Systems Resource Centre is finalising recommendations which are likely to seek inclusion of family medicine in MBBS …

Universal health scare

The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …

Matter of life and death

Cradles of hope

A recent health survey throws up figures that defy logic. Some districts in India’s nine most backward states have curbed infant mortality …

Lalitpur’s baby formula

Programme to promote breastfeeding improves health of children under two