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Bank gives UP woman with cancer-stricken son Rs 2000 in Rs 1 coins -Oliver Fredrick and Anupam Srivastava

-Hindustan Times Lucknow: Life has been a story of setbacks for Sarju Devi, a resident of Maurawa road in Mohanlalganj, but she is a fighter. The woman in her late 60s has faced struggle – be it at the time when she lost her husband, or when her young son was diagnosed with last-stage-abdominal cancer. But what happened on Tuesday left her crestfallen. On the day, Sarju couldn’t control her emotions when...

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Grit and a fistful of infested rice -Swapna Majumdar

-The Hindu Business Line How the women of Deoria challenged the public distribution system malpractices Women no longer have to return empty-handed from the fair price shops mandated to give rations under the government’s public distribution system in village Bandgunia in Uttar Pradesh. Not only is the full quota of rice, pulses and sugar given, the shopkeeper in this village in Gauri Bazar block of Deoria district also ensures the women are informed...

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Data shows success of TB Treatment in India is lower than government figures -Shreya Shah

-IndiaSpend Only 73% of one kind of TB cases registered for Treatment were successfully treated, than the government-reported 84% success rate Only 73% of one kind of tuberculosis (TB) cases registered for Treatment were successfully treated, much lower than the government-reported 84% success rate, according to a new study published in the United States and United Kingdom-based health journal Plos Medicine. Untreated or partially-treated TB patients may infect others, at least partially nullifying...

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Encephalitis death toll in Odisha mounts to 76

-The Hindu BERHAMPUR: Personnel of the Health department as well as all other government officials in Malkangiri district of Odisha are continuing to fight menace of Japanese encephalitis. Death toll of children due to encephalitis in Malkangiri district rose to 76 in last 51 days on Sunday, with two more deaths. The two children who succumbed to the killer disease on Sunday were Sushila Padiami (2) of Daniguda village under Malkangiri block...

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1m Indian TB patients fall off radar every year -Malathy Iyer

-The Times of India MUMBAI: A close-up of India's tuberculosis epidemic shows, for the first time, how a million of the now 2.8 million TB patients go 'missing' or never show up in the Revised National TB Control Programme. Almost 28% of the patients don't have access a government TB centre and around half a million patients either never complete their long diagnostic process or medical Treatment, found a joint study by...

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