Short on paramedics

Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country

Redemption from litter

Uttarakhand non-profits have taken responsibility for clearing tourists’ plastic waste

‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

Promised Moon, Paid Pittance - Madhya Pradesh

Harmful combo drugs flood market

Irrational drug combos flood market; regulator does little to remove them

Not so lovely fair trade

They also serve

Though it controls 23.4 per cent of the country's land, the Indian Forest Service has little administrative clout. For long the stepchild of …

Johan von Schreeb on humanitarian aid

Johan Von Schreeb, a surgeon who has worked for the group Medicins Sans Frontieres, is a public health scholar with the Karolinska Institutet, …

Leprosy returns

Public health experts blame it on government complacency  

Let the wind chase fire

Soligas of BR Hills say litter fire is the only way to salvage the sanctuary

Infection threat from clean hospitals too

How to cure corruption in healthcare

Rx: Only an effective governing body, which includes medical and non-medical members, can stop the culture of kickbacks

Health Act faces hurdles

Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists

Lost in interpretation - Maharashtra

Bamboo sale for bamboo rights

A Maharashtra village demands rights to transport and sell forest produce

Choking research

Mismanagement in India's premier forestry research institute

Burden of birth

Maternal deaths in Bihar go unreported, while state claims maternal mortality ratio has decreased

`Many doctors are simply businessmen'

Samiran Nundy, chairperson of the department of surgical gastroenterology and organ transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and editor-in-chief …

Sour and sweet - Gujarat

Commercial breach

High-risk trade

MFP is a renewable, reliable source of income, but faces many threats

Degree without honours

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

Pharma companies determine what patients buy

Impatient to sterilise

In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines

Colonial hangover persists

Forest Act Amendment Bill maintains the forest department as the supreme controlling agency