Prevention is cure

When preventive measures can fight encephalitis, is there a need for treatment in ill-equipped primary health centres?

A hard rain’s falling

Sayantan Bera tells the story of a man and a state, paralysed inside the remote islands of Sundarbans

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 …

Low public funding in health exacerbates poverty, says Nigerian health minister

Nigeria's Minister of Health Isaac Adewole talks to Bennett Oghifo about the country's commitment to provide universal health coverage by 2030

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

DOCTORS RAPPED

Religious planning

Everybody coughs in Kumaon

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

Sordid state

Love kids, live longer

Prescription done, how about the cure?

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

Taking big business to the trash cans

Broken promises

'Health for all Indians by 2000' remains a myth

Anganwadi, ASHA work massively disrupted during COVID-19 pandemic: Survey

Workers reported increase in stress levels, study finds

Consumed by hunger

Private sector wants to adopt public health bodies

According to report

Nagaur breaks free of pharma stranglehold

Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu make quality drugs affordable

Poor infrastructure, staff crunch continue to plague healthcare in rural India: Centre

Less than half the Primary Health Centres function on a 24x7 basis

The missing public

Shudder islands

Harsh environment, government apathy are literally driving Sundarbans inhabitants mad