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One front line health worker for 14 centres
Ahilya Devi, a septuagenarian, is the Auxiliary Nurse Midwife from Jharkhand. She currently looks after the 14 sub-health centres in different villages while according to health ministry guidelines one auxiliary nurse midwife is supposed to look after 8. Apart from being over-worked, Ahilya also faces problems because there are no...
One woman’s harrowing experience of giving birth at a state-run health facility
A 24-year old woman in labour was kept waiting for the doctor for 6 hours. The doctor on duty did not turn up and she delivered in the presence of a nurse. She was forced to pay INR 400 for her delivery and even, to use the toilet. She neither...
You can’t Deliver Your Baby Here, The Roof May Collapse Any Moment
Crumbling infrastructure at a state-run health facility keeps pregnant women from availing healthcare services here. With a roof that leaks during the monsoon and no functional toilets, both frontline health workers and patients find it difficult to use. Bharti Kumari Reports from Telmocho village, Dhanbad district, Jharkhand This series on...
Jharkhand – Women Reporters Bring Change
In a tiny village in India’s northeast Jharkhand province, some 250 people gathered in an open area for an unusual treat: a video. Unusual, because it wasn’t some Bollywood glitz completely alien to their reality; they were watching a homemade movie about their own community, starring some of the people...
Back to The Roots, Organic Farming Gets a Boost in Rural Jharkhand
Tilopada Village, West Singhbhum District, Jharkhand | Xavier Hamsay The farming community of Bandgaon block is in the midst of a small revolution. After years of using chemical fertilisers that have slowly leached their soil of any nutrients, they are revisiting organic methods like using vermicompost to nurture the earth....
A Boost for Lac Cultivation in Jharkhand
Kairodi Village, West Singhbhum District, Jharkhand | Xavier Hamsay A new scientific method of lac cultivation is picking up in Jharkhand, a state which contributed about 56% to India’s total lac produced in 2013-14. A local farmer, Gopi Chaki has been doing his bit to promote this method among tribal...
Shrinking forests put elephants and humans in danger
Karanjtoli Village, Kolebira Block, Jharkhand | Warles Surin Phulmani Dang spent the wee hours of 15th October 2014 locked up in her house with her young children, terrified, as a herd of 16 wild elephants marauded her house and her village. “I couldn’t run, so I shut the door and...
IMPACT | Curbing the man Elephant Conflict
4 June 2015 | Torpa, Jharkhand | Amit Topno In this interview, Community Correspondent Amit Topno speaks of how his video on rampaging elephants in his village resulted in villagers mobilizing funds to purchase 15 torches that would help them locate and disperse these elephants. His advocacy efforts also led...