National Rural Health Mission
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Health Care System Continues to Remain Inaccessible to Rural India
A proper health care system remains inaccessible to most of rural India as hospitals lack doctors, nurses and lab technicians.
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Health Workers Asserting their Rights Intimidated, Threatened by the Police
Police cracks down on demonstrating health workers in Bhopal, illegally detaining them; the workers are fighting for better pay and working conditions.
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Primary Health Centre in Shopian Shines a Ray of Hope
While stories of lack of health services, medical negligence and unaffordable healthcare fill our mediascapes, a rural health centre in Shopian shows the way.
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India’s Rural Health Activists: Not Volunteers, But Workers With Labour Rights
ASHA workers from 21 districts of Madhya Pradesh are demanding standardised wages, better working conditions and representation in leadership and movements.
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Delayed Payments Dampen Health Workers’ Motivation
Frontline health workers, especially ASHA workers, literally spell hope for millions in rural India, but the government does little to keep them incentivised.
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World Health Day: Inside India’s Public Health Centres
On the eve of World Health Day, a small story from Jammu & Kashmir that is telling of a large problem that India’s public health system is mired in.
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Public Health in Jharkhand: One Crumbling Health Centre for 8000 People
Reports on maternal and child deaths come in from different parts of the country everyday: no surprise given that the public health infrastructure is in shambles.