-Newsclick.in Inadequate infrastructure and insufficient health personnel emerged as the leading problem keeping women from accessing medical care. As many as 60% of women in the country face trouble accessing healthcare for themselves, the findings of the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey(NFHS) have revealed. The complete report— which had surveyed women between the ages of 15-49 years about potential problems in obtaining medical treatment for themselves when they are...
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Nearly One in Five Households in India Practise Open Defecation: NFHS-5 Data
-TheWire.in The survey found that 83% of 636,699 households sampled had access to toilets, with greater accessibility in urban areas than in rural areas. New Delhi: Nearly one in five households in India practise open defecation, according to a health ministry report released on May 5, nearly two years after the Union government declared the country ‘open defecation free’. The report is part of the fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey...
More »Health Stack is harder to roll out than Aadhaar: RS Sharma -Shouvik Das
-Livemint.com Aadhaar has only two parties—the government and citizens, but ABDM involves multiple entities NEW DELHI: Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), which seeks to build a technology backbone for digital Health Infrastructure in India, is “much more difficult" to build than Aadhaar, according to Ram Sewak Sharma, chief executive of the National Health Authority (NHA). Speaking at the Mint AI Summit 2022 held in New Delhi on 29 April, Sharma explained that while...
More »Mitanins: The women who kept Chhattisgarh safe during the COVID-19 pandemic -Ravleen Kaur
-Down to Earth The administration, however, has not compensated other Mitanins’ work adequately and has thus been misusing their sense of social commitment 50-year-old Saraswati Kaushik’s day starts at 5 am. After preparing food for the family and an hour or two of farm work, she goes for home visits in her ‘para’ (locality) to check on pregnant mothers, infants, kids below five years of age, elderly people in need of treatment...
More »Healthcare Continues to Remain Inaccessible for Dalits and Adivasis, Says Study
-Newsclick.in The high healthcare costs were expected to be addressed through the introduction of health insurance by the Union government, but it covers less than 30% of hospital charges leaving a heavy financial burden on the poor. Health outcomes have remained grossly unequal, with India's dalits and adivasis living shorter lives of poorer quality, as per a recent paper published by Oxfam India. Private infrastructure now accounts for nearly 62% of India's...
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