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When Five Hospitals Failed to Save a Pregnant Woman

 
/ September 6, 2017

Rajasthan government is celebrating an 84% increase in institutional delivery. But even after spending Rs 42,500, Pushpabai succumbed to maternal mortality.

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Women die in Childbirth as Hospital lies Vacant in West Bengal

 
/ August 16, 2017

Doctors refuse posting to a small village in a border district of West Bengal even as people suffer due to lack of medical services.

Labouring on the Fields During the Ninth Month of Pregnancy

 
/ August 7, 2017

Schemes benefitting poor women are disbursed to them through bank accounts. But a large number of the beneficiaries do not even have access to banks.

IMPACT: Reparative Justice for Medical Negligence Deaths in Jharkhand

 
/ November 6, 2015

Last year we launched “End Medical Negligence“, a campaign focused on getting better medical facilities at the Sub-Divisional Hospital in Madhupur, Jharkhand. CC Mukesh Rajak documented several cases of medical negligence at the government hospital that led to the death of a new-born, and of a 12 year old, among...

61 families suffer due to lack of anaganwadi facilities

 
/ March 7, 2017

An Anganwadi center in a village is one of the essential most institutions in a rural setting to ensure a healthy, educated and aware child and mother. However, this village in Bisungarh district of Jharkhand, home to over at least 61 mothers worry that their children are denied the benefits of...

No End to Lack of Accountabiliy at Sub-Divisional Hospital Madhupur

 
/ September 10, 2015

Medical Negligence. Corruption. Cases of lack of accountability at Madhupur Sub-Divisional Hospital in Deogarh District of Jharkhand are rampant. Community Correspondent Mukesh continues to report violations and urges authorities to take action. Since November 2013, Video Volunteers Community Correspondent MukeshRajak, along with the community in Madhupur district of Jharkhand, has...

No Financial Benefits For Pregnant Women – Chetan Salve Reports for IndiaUnheard

 
/ February 9, 2017

Rural pregnant women are motivated to deliver their babies in hospitals rather than in their homes, according to Manav Vikas Mission (Human Development Mission). This program, launched in 2006 is an initiative of Government of Maharashtra to increase Human Development Index (HDI) of backward districts of Maharashtra, India. Under this...

Hospital digs Graves of Women Children

 
/ July 8, 2011

Dhuna Bai, a tribal woman from Barwani district, Madhya Pradesh is very angry. Last December, gross negligence by medical authorities in the district hospital, a government appointed 24 hrs delivery and mother child care centre, resulted in the death of her 22year old daughter-in-law Byapari Bai. It was the 25th...