-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With an unregulated surrogacy industry thriving in India, rich couples are preying on domestic helps and housemaids coercing them to step up to the task. There is little or no protection for the surrogate mother controlled in the most part by a web of middle-men with medical practitioners choosing to turn a blind eye to this controversial transaction. These are part of the conclusions drawn...
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Bihar midday meal horror: 22 children die in Saran, 50 students fall ill in Madhubani
-PTI PATNA: A day after deaths due to contaminated midday meal at a government primary school in Saran district, about 50 children of another government school were taken ill on Wednesday after they were served food under the scheme in Madhubani district of the state. The food was served to students of Navtolia Middle School, Bisfi, about 22 km from here. The students alleged that the meal had a dead lizard in...
More »Food security law that puts women and children last -Shailey Hingorani and Allison Hutchings
-The Hindu The National Food Security Ordinance, which President Pranab Mukherjee signed into law last week, has been touted as especially attentive to the needs of women and children. A closer inspection of the Ordinance, however, suggests otherwise - its provisions in fact ignore the distinct socio-economic roles of women and children in society. Moreover, the Ordinance glosses over entire subsets of women and children, including those who are arguably the...
More »In Rajasthan, rewards for spotting malnourished kids
-IANS JAIPUR: Helping to identify and then get medical facilities to children suffering from malnutrition will win health workers in Baran district of Rajasthan additional monetary benefits. The district administration of Baran, some 250 km from Jaipur, announced that it would give Rs 100 to a government health worker who helps detect a malnourished child and brings him or her to the special centres of the government meant to deal with the...
More »Anaemia pill at schools
-The Telegraph Children in government and public-funded schools across India will receive a weekly tablet of iron and folic acid to reduce anaemia under a programme to be launched this week. The initiative will cover about 60 million boys and girls enrolled in Classes VI to XII at government and aided schools, a senior health official said today. It will also cover 70 million out-of-school girls, aged 10 to 19, under the Integrated...
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