-TheWire.in The water contamination has led to serious health problems and physical disabilities in Churaman Nagar village. Gaya/Patna (Bihar): Krishna Manjhi is only 35, but he looks much older. His neck is bent, making him unable to lift up his head. He cannot straighten his back, and the bones of his feet are thin and crooked. He can’t walk without a stick. Krishna is an orphan and his two brothers live in separate...
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India gained decade of life expectancy since 1990, says Lancet study
-The Hindu/ PTI The study noted that life expectancy in India has risen from 59.6 years in 1990 to 70.8 years in 2019, ranging from 77.3 years in Kerala to 66.9 years in Uttar Pradesh. India has gained more than a decade of life expectancy since 1990, but there are wide inequalities between States, according to a new study which assessed more than 286 causes of death and 369 diseases and injuries...
More »Low-lying agricultural areas of rural India witnessed most cases of deaths due to snakebite envenoming in the last 2 decades
Poisonous snakebites have killed more than a million Indians in the last two decades, finds a recently published article entitled Trends in snakebite mortality in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study. Published in the open access journal elifesciences.org, the research-based study has found that the country accounts for nearly half the total number of annual deaths in the world caused by snakebite envenoming. Who are the...
More »How India’s disabled community fought to halt a legislative change amid the lockdown – and won -Nipun Malhotra
-Scroll.in A government plan to dilute the Disabilities Act to enable ease of doing business was blocked even though the usual tools of protest were unavailable. It was last Thursday, July 2, that my phone started buzzing with notifications from friends and fellow members of the disabled community. The day earlier, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment had quietly released a notification under the ‘What’s new’ section of their website titled...
More »People With Disabilities Can't Be Too Joyful Over Rollback of Amendments to the RPWD Act -Shameer Rishad
-TheWire.in The Centre attempted to take blatant advantage of the COVID-19 situation. And those that stood to lose the most have been saved by a whisker. On July 2, 2020, the Disability sector in India received a shock as the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE) came out with a draft proposing amendments to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act of 2016 to ‘decriminalise minor offences’. Further, only select Disability...
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