-Moneycontrol.com During the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant reduction was observed in the total number of drug resistant TB patients started on Treatment as compared to 2019. In 2020 and 2021, there was also a reduction of 14 and 9 percent respectively in the number multiple drug resistant TB patients put on Treatment India recorded a total of 19,33,381 new and relapsed tuberculosis patients in 2021 marking a rise of 19 percent over...
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Parl Committee Asks Govt Why It Didn’t Use PSUs To Make COVID Drugs -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in * The Parliamentary standing committee on chemicals and fertilisers has produced a report highlighting gaps in the availability of COVID-19 drugs and devices during the pandemic. * The committee has asked the national government why PSUs didn’t receive licenses to make COVID drugs when private manufacturers did. * The MPs on the committee also spotlighted widespread irrational drug use in COVID-19 management, despite the existence of a standard Treatment protocol. New Delhi: The...
More »In search of hope and care: Medical tourism or forced migration?
-Down to Earth The arduous journeys of those who migrate for medical Treatment in India Marta kya na karta (One can do anything when pushed to the wall),” says 40-year-old Rita Kumari from Supaul district of north Bihar. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic was tightening its grip across the country Rita and her daughter, Sandhya, had to undertake multiple trips to hospitals in Nepal and Uttar Pradesh, before reaching the All...
More »Ticking time bomb: The perilous lives of garment workers amid the pandemic -Vaibhav Raghunandan
-Down to Earth blog Women workers in garment industry share stories of gender discrimination, insensitive Treatment and government apathy The garment industry has long been under the microscope for flouting labour codes, breaking environmental norms, violating human rights, pay structures and much more. The women garment workers who attended an orientation workshop at a hotel on Delhi-Gurugram road October 2021, headed by Society for Labour and Development (SLD), know about these flaws. In...
More »If India wants to spend its money well, it should build infrastructure that is climate resilient -Flavia Lopes
-IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in In the 2022 Budget, the Centre proposed to earmark Rs 1-lakh crore in interest-free loans for states, some of which will be used for developing infrastructure. In May 2021, when Cyclone Yaas hit the eastern coast of India, a hospital in Bihar’s capital Patna was inundated in the floods and patients had nowhere to go. In September 2021, parts of the national capital, Delhi, were waterlogged because of heavy rains...
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