healthcare services
Mobile medical units going a long way in Jharkhand
In the remote villages of Jharkhand where communities lack healthcare services, mobile medical units that offer free consultations, treatment and referrals are improving people’s health.
Why are most women in Sundarbans anaemic?
A survey conducted on 164 women and adolescent girls in the Basanti and Gosaba blocks of Sundarbans found that 97 percent of them suffer from a severe deficiency of healthy red blood cells.
How to ensure better well-being of India’s elderly
On this International Elders’ Day, success of an intervention offering social bonding, and health cards providing the elderly easy access to health care, point the way for effective elder care
Missing foot soldiers in the war on poverty
Unless the government improves the anemic delivery structure of rural health and education, the neglected and overworked frontline workers will not be able to fight underdevelopment adequately