Rags to pads

Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India

Over 80% Indians not covered under health insurance: NSSO survey

Most people finance hospitalisation by digging into savings and borrowing

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.…

Pentavalent vaccine deaths prompt doctors, activists to appeal to health secretary

Five-in-one vaccine introduced in Haryana without evaluating what happened in Tamil Nadu, Kerala

When birth control means business

Government’s scheme to give monetary remuneration to health workers for counselling couples on family planning may just backfire, says …

How tribal leadership in Chhattisgarh is helping people access rights

The civil society’s intervention in the tribal regions began in early 1980s on two issues-sustainable livelihood, particularly in forest …

Cabinet approves National Urban Health Mission

Misgivings persist about implementation

Junior doctors protest mandatory rural posting for PG admission

Health officials say if medical graduates have problems with poor infrastructure they should demand better facilities instead of making it an …

Stressed out

Few studies on hypertension, but doctors say it is rising

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 …

Health Act faces hurdles

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

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 …

State of malnourished children

CAG’s latest report blames poor management of anganwadis in Gujarat for the problem

Chhatisgarh stalls PPP project to outsource diagnostic facilities

Centre refuses to provide funds; state government to review project

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

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 …

Government launches new health programme for adolescents

Earlier schemes were confined only to sexual and reproductive health, say health officials

Health ministry merges TB programme with rural health mission

TB control supervision will suffer, say officials manning the programme

The Gates accounts

Prevention is cure

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

Chhattisgarh to outsource diagnostic services in government hospitals

Activists say these centres will end up serving outside patients at the cost of hospital patients

CBI gets tough on rural health mission scam in Uttar Pradesh

How Central funds meant for upgrading healthcare facilities are siphoned off