-Newsclick.in With sixty percent children malnourished in the state, the implementation of the Integrated Child Development Services, the largest scheme to provide nutrition to children in the country, is nothing but a sham. Sitting outside her semi-pucca house in Bilgram block, Kasturi says, "My children get five fistful of panjiri once a month from the Aanganwadi Centre." Thirty-three year-old Kasturi has never, in her parents' village or her in-law's village seen an...
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Latest survey shows a marginal improvement in health indicators-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu The latest round of Annual Health Survey (AHS) has shown only marginal improvement in health indicators in the worst performing districts of the country. Bihar continues to have the highest percentage of girls marrying before completing 18. While the percentage during the baseline survey (2008-2010) was 20.2 per cent, it has now come down to 16.5 per cent. In Rajasthan the percentage has come down to 16.3 from 21.9. The...
More »UP: 8 More Children Succumb to Encephalitis, Toll 569
-Outlook Gorakhpur: Eight more children succumbed to encephalitis taking the death count from the viral disease to 569 this year in eastern region of Uttar Pradesh, health officials said today. The children died in BRD Medical College Hospital here, they said, adding that one child from Gorakhpur succumbed to the disease yesterday, while rest of seven deaths occurred on Sunday and Monday. Forty eight people with symptoms of encephalitis were admitted to BRD-MCH...
More »In UP's overcrowded jails, 60% inmates are undertrials -Neha Shukla
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Jails may not be meant for comfortable stay, but prisons in UP could well put a can of sardines to shame. There are 81,027 prisoners lodged in UP jails against the actual total capacity of 48,298 prisoners that these jails are meant to accommodate. What makes these overcrowded jails a case fit for human rights violation is the fact that more than half of the prisoners in...
More »Encephalitis claims 10 more lives in Uttar Pradesh; toll climbs to 319
-PTI Gorakhpur: Ten more children have succumbed to encephalitis at BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur in last 24 hours, taking the death toll due to the disease to 319 in eastern district of Uttar Pradesh this year. The deceased include three children from Gorakhpur, two from Maharajganj and one child each from Deoria, Kushinagar, Sant Kabirnagar and Siddharthanagar districts of eastern UP, while one child from adjoining Bihar also succumbed to the...
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