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In a Kolkata hospital : ‘I can’t give you a glass of water here’
Aiema Tauheed, Kolkata
THE resting room in the School of Digestive and Liver Disease at the SSKM Hospital is cramped and grim with ...
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Hospital basics, that's what junior doctors are asking for
Aiema Tauheed, Kolkata
JUNIOR doctors have called off their agitation in West Bengal on the promise that the state government will hold talks ...
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Doctors are most unsafe in ICU and emergency
Civil Society News, New Delhi
THE rape and murder of a young woman doctor in the seminar room of R.G. Kar Hospital in Kolkata shocked ...
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Parenting app improves child health with reminders
Usha Rai, New Delhi
EARLY morning, parents of the largely migrant population of Kondli village in Mayur Vihar assembly block in east Delhi and ...
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Rajasthan law raises the bar for state health facilities
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A new law in Rajasthan that gives every citizen the right to free public healthcare has the potential to raise ...
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Diagnosis matters: Cancer in thumb almost killed him
Civil Society News, New Delhi
THERE are nine fingers that SC has now. The thumb of his right hand was removed to save him from ...
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Underfunding disability
Bharat Dogra
PRIORITIZATION of funds for disadvantaged sections is a long-accepted precept of fiscal policy in India, and persons with disability (PwDs) ...
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Muzaffarpur hospital gets going with surgeries, chemo
Civil Society News, New Delhi
IT is a year since the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre opened its prefab doors to patients in ...
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Disability dilemma: The caregiver too needs care
Shubha Nagesh & Pheba Mathai
HEALTH WORKERS need to be at peace with themselves even as they work with people who have problems. October is ...
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‘Nurses should be trained better and get more respect’
Civil Society News, New Delhi
NURSES are as important as doctors in delivering healthcare, but look around in India and it may not exactly seem ...
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DFY is 14 and growing with many pretty cakes
Civil Society News, New Delhi
ANNIVERSARIES come with their stories. So, when Doctors For You (DFY) completed 14 years in August with an emotional cake-cutting ...
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Muzaffarpur’s hospital on truck from Chennai
Civil Society News, New Delhi
HOW long does it take to set up a cancer hospital? Two years? Or just four weeks? If the hospital ...
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Bridging Delhi’s nutrition deficit in slums
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Arvind Singh has become accustomed to distress calls for food, late at night. Since the lockdown began, Singh, who leads a ...
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Doctors For You weigh in as COVID crisis team
Civil Society News, New Delhi
IT was the middle of June and the new coronavirus had been rampaging its way across cities. The National Capital ...
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Ant carries its lockdown load in Assam areas
Civil Society News, Chirang/Gurugram
The lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus comes with multiple challenges, but if you were a mental health ...
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Doctors out there: Small hospitals matter
Civil Society News, New Delhi
In 1992 a young couple, both doctors, travelled from Madurai in Tamil Nadu to a remote corner of Assam to ...
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Future of healthcare: Combining the traditional and modern
Darshan Shankar
A former foreign minister of Singapore in search of a cure for his Parkinson’s disease admitted himself to the hospital at ...
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Smart urban PHCs: The Nagpur model
Umesh Anand, Nagpur
It is a morning like any other at the primary health centre at Futala. A large number of patients have ...
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The Mansi Way: Reducing child, maternal mortality
Civil Society News, Seraikela, Jharkhand
At 18, Sonam Purti is a very young mother in the village of Bundu. Her baby girl is just a ...
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Araku lifeline eliminates maternal deaths
Swapna Majumdar, Araku Valley
Surrounded by dense forests, Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam district is rich in biodiversity, but its people are poor. ...
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Pallab Ray: 'Bring back bacteria, sanitise less'
Raj Machhan, Chandigarh
Is the irrational use of antibiotics leading to a public health emergency? Are Indians heading for a situation in which ...
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TB time bomb: A survivor's story
Saurabh Rane
I was training to be a doctor when I started feeling sick. After two weeks of continued fever, cough and ...
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When buildings are hotspots for tuberculosis
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A study of three high-rise resettlement colonies in Mumbai has shown that there is a link between the spread of ...
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Private hospitals: Why health can't be a business
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Every now and then, tragic stories about the consequences of poor quality healthcare make news and come to public attention. ...
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'We've set up palliative care centres in 8 districts'
Civil Society News, Hyderabad
Telangana has become a frontrunner in State-supported cancer treatment by opening palliative care centres in eight districts in partnership with ...
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Doctors for you
From Civil Society's September-October 2018 edition It was 2007 and Mumbai was reeling under an outbreak of malaria, dengue and leptospirosis. ...
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Gida's primary health centre saviour
Umesh Anand, Barmer
From Civil Society's September-October 2018 edition. When Dr Jogesh Kumar set foot in the Primary Health Centre (PHC) at Gida ...
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Fernandez hospital is every baby's hospital
T. S. Sudhir, Hyderabad
From Civil Society's September-October 2012 edition The warmth of Dr Evita Fernandez’s sunny smile has radiated to thousands of ...
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The womb crusaders
Umesh Anand, Hyderabad
From Civil Society's September-October 2018 edition If you sit in a district bus, every fifth woman doesn’t have a uterus, ...
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Sudha Sinha: The caring oncologist
Umesh Anand, Hyderabad
From Civil Society's September-October 2014 edition The MNJ Cancer Hospital at Red Hills in Hyderabad has a good reputation as ...
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Mind doctor on call: Nilesh Mohite and ANT
Umesh Anand, Assam
From Civil Society's September-October 2018 edition It is very early in the morning on the campus of the Action Northeast ...
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How a district hospital saved a baby weighing 650 gm
Civil Society News, Nalgonda (Telangana)
Mamatha arrived at the Nalgonda District Hospital atop the fuel tank of her uncle’s motorcycle. She weighed just 650 grammes. ...
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Dr Sitanath De: Jhargram's first surgeon
Subir Roy, Jhargram
From Civil Society's September-October 2015 edition. Sitanath De’s main interest in life initially was to play football. But very early ...
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Corona stress? Here are helplines
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
A 20-year-old man, who had returned from the United Kingdom and spent 14 days in home quarantine, found that life ...
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'For lung patients, oxygen gets too expensive'
Ashwini Kamat, Panaji
Patients with lung disease need palliative care as much as they do medicines. When medicines stop working, it is only ...
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Khushi is improving children's health
Swapna Majumdar, Chittorgarh (Rajasthan)
Machli jal ki rani hai Jeevan uska pani hai Haath lagao to dar jayegi Bahar nikalo to mar jayegi Andar ...
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Patients' rights: Call for a charter grows louder
Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi
Sitting in a coffee shop in Dwarka, Jayant Singh, 40, shows a video on his phone. It is a recording ...
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HIV update: Fewer cases, but stigma, drugs?
Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi
During a routine check-up at a government hospital, Janak decided to get himself tested for HIV. Three days later, he ...
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Small cities get acute care at Glocal hospitals
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Urban areas in India have been steadily expanding with small cities and towns attracting a rising number of people. But ...
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PHCs and sub-centres aren’t easy to upgrade
Ketki Shah and Nerges Mistry
Since the days of the Bhore Committee Report of 1948, the public health community in India has vociferously advocated a ...
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Smart answer to BP, sugar in rural India
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Arising graph of blood pressure and diabetes cases in India has been found to include rural areas as much as ...
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Caring service for elderly comes with push button
Subir Roy, Kolkata
Mamata Dasgupta is 81, bright and cheerful. When our photographer and a Support Elders person visited her she herself got ...
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Survivors tell the real tuberculosis story
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Deepti Chavan, 34, was diagnosed with tuberculosis when she was 16 and studying for her board exams. An X-ray confirmed ...
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Cadre for midwives to give them status
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Public health experts, nurses and NGOs working in women and child health programmes are keen that the government create a ...
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‘The SC order is about women’s empowerment’
By Poonam Muttreja
On 14 September the Supreme Court banned mass sterilisation camps in India, putting an end to a system that had ...
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Doctors speaking up, but will the MCI be reformed?
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Dissatisfaction with the medical profession is widespread. There is hardly anyone who doesn't have a story to tell. Doctors either ...
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Sharam yatra raises a stink on open defecation
Sujata Raghavan, Patna
In 1999 Gita Devi constructed a toilet with funds from the central government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in her marital ...
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Little learning from disasters
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Several major natural disasters in the past few years have destroyed properties, taken lives and pushed tens of thousands into ...
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Noora helps families with patient care
M-R Abraham, Bengaluru
When a patient is in hospital in India, he is likely to be accompanied by a number of people — ...
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Eye bankers speed up deliveries of corneas
Civil Society News, New Delhi
It was late in the evening on December 30 two years ago when Dr Vikas Mittal’s number flashed on ...
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CINI's Nutrimix works as nutrition for the very poor
Subir Roy, Kolkata
It was in the early 1970s that Dr Samir Chaudhuri, then a young pediatrician, chose to work in the villages ...
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PHCs can be made to work with local solutions
Shree Padre, Mysore
Hura is a sleepy village in the Nanjanagud taluk of Mysore district. There is nothing in its nondescript landscape to ...
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Low-cost hospitals are game changers in healthcare
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Harimati Das, 60, a destitute widow with no children, lives in Panchtupi, a remote village in Murshidabad district of West ...
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