India's Great Challenge: Health & Sanitation - Page 3
Six Factors That Could Reduce Malnutrition In Madhya Pradesh
Women’s empowerment, better sanitation, and improvement in maternal health could improve the nutritional status of...
What Surat Can Teach Other Indian Cities About Public Health
Chaya Jadhav (centre) from Dhule, Maharashtra, at the Pandesara Urban Centre in Surat. Jadhav came back to the centre...
In A Poor Gujarat District, Infrastructure Cannot Compensate For Lack Of Jobs
The neonatal intensive unit in Ahwa Civil Hospital has ten warmers and five attending nurses. Even though Dang...
2 Years To Swachh Bharat Mission Deadline, 62% Districts Still Report Open Defecation
With less than two years remaining until the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) deadline, 62.5%, or 400 of India’s 640...
Support Groups Welcome New Rare Disease Policy, Seek Incentives For Orphan Drugs
Shashank Tyagi, a 27-year-old Delhi-based businessman, was diagnosed with Gaucher’s disease when he was five. “I still...
New Toilets In Indian Trains No Better Than Septic Tanks: IIT Study
A new kind of toilet using bacteria to break down human excreta has been deployed in Indian trains over four years to...
New TB Infections Fall, But Drug-Resistant Cases Rise
A patient collects his medicines for tuberculosis from a Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) centre in...
18 Children Die In Gujarat Hospital, Spotlighting State’s Malnutrition, Infant Mortality
As national attention was focussed on the death of 18 children over three days in Ahmedabad’s main civil hospital in...
