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Young women from tribal communities are helping lower maternal mortality rates in the Araku valley -Swati Sanyal Tarafdar

-The Hindu The Araku valley saw its first childbirth in a hospital, thanks to young nurses drawn from the tribes themselves On an ordinary workday, 27-year-old Pramila Bariki hikes up steep slopes, across fields, through ankle-deep rivulets, often walking up to 14 km. She gets a ride until the road is motorable, from which point she has to walk. Her job? She doles out healthcare advice to mothers and children in the remotest...

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UP's Musahars face such intense discrimination that even healthcare is denied to them -Tarun Kanti Bose

-Scroll.in Untouchability was outlawed in 1950, but discrimination and segregation of the scheduled caste remains pervasive. Musahars, a Scheduled Caste that sections of Hindu society deem untouchable, are still being denied government entitlements such as state pensions and housing. The discrimination is blatant when it comes to accessing government healthcare in Badagaon administrative block of Varanasi district in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous province. The scourge of discrimination is so pervasive that...

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Jamui RTI activist, supporter killed over 'appointment of Aanganwadi sevika'

-The Indian Express Since 2008, 14 RTI activists have been killed in Bihar. In 2018 alone, four RTI activists - Rahul Jha from Saharsa, Jayant Kumar from Vaishali, Rajendra Singh from Motihari and now Valmiki Yadav from Jamui have been killed. Patna: An RTI activist and a fellow villager were shot dead at Sikandara block in Jamui on Sunday evening following a recent tiff with some villagers over the selection of...

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Health and poverty

-The Hindu Business Line The Ayushman Bharat programme must aim to reverse poverty caused by healthcare expenses The state of India’s healthcare system is somewhat dichotomous — the country is a global supplier of life-saving, affordable and good quality generic medicines, yet lakhs of families are driven into poverty because they are forced to spend much of their earnings and savings on medications to treat chronic and life-threatening diseases. The poor, particularly,...

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Local, global experts likely to be roped in for National Health Scheme -Yogima Sharma

-The Economic Times New Delhi: The government is planning to rope in domain experts from within and outside the country to ensure a smooth rollout and monitoring of ‘Ayushman Bharat’, its ambitious health insurance scheme for the poor. Niti Aayog, the government’s premier think tank, will come out with guidelines for setting up the project monitoring unit (PMU) for Ayushman Bharat, also known as National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), an official told...

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