-TheWire.in Swaraj Abhiyan founder Prashant Bhushan discusses the Essar tapes and other scams, the role of whistleblowers and his fallout with Arvind Kejriwal. Celebrated lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan has just notched up another victory with the Supreme Court-appointed panel decreeing there was prima facie evidence that former CBI director Ranjit Sinha had attempted to influence the investigation into the coal block allocation scam under the then UPA government. The court’s observation was based...
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Even educated spend less on women health -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The gender gap in healthcare spending is increasing in India, and even educated and wealthy households spend less on women's health than on men's, scientists have reported. Demographers and other experts have documented for over a century how Indians discriminate against girls in healthcare and general well-being. New research now suggests that this gender disparity is amplified in adults and has increased over time. An analysis from two nationwide...
More »WHO report sounds alarm on ‘Doctors’ in India -Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu More than half of them don’t have any medical qualification, and in rural areas, just 18.8 per cent of allopathic Doctors are qualified. Almost one-third (31 per cent) of those who claimed to be allopathic Doctors in 2001 were educated only up to the secondary school level and 57 per cent did not have any medical qualification, a recent WHO report found, ringing the alarm bells on India’s healthcare workforce. The...
More »Density of Doctors in India poor, says WHO study -Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu A WHO study titled ‘The Health Workforce in India’, published in June 2016, revealed that the density of all Doctors — allopathic, ayurvedic, homoeopathic and unani — at the national level was 80 Doctors per lakh population compared to 130 in China. Ignoring those who don’t have a medical qualification, the number for India fell to 36 Doctors per lakh population. As for nurses and midwives, India had 61 workers...
More »How malnutrition is killing kids of a mineral-rich Odisha tribal village -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India Bamnipal/ Sukinda: Between March and June this year, at least 12 children died in Nagada village, located in the forests of Odisha's Jajpur district. The underlying reason for their deaths was malnutrition, local medical authorities and community workers said. The village population is solely of the Juang scheduled tribe, one of India's ancient tribes, declared 'particularly vulnerable' by the government. For the past two months, a chicken pox...
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