Tag: Health (Industry)
Resuscitating Health Care in Rural Jharkhand
May 7th 2015 | Baskhola Village, Mandro Block, Jharkhand | Jyoti Malto Residents of this village travel as far as 20-30 kilometres in order to get basic healthcare. A sub health care centre was built in the village in 2009 but to this date, its doors have never opened to...
T.B. blights the lives of Factory workers
10th April 2015 | Saraipalli Village, Tamnar Block, Chhattisgarh | Rajesh In the absence of any protective measures, the 15 workers at the Golden Refractories in Tamnar Chhattisgarh have contracted Tuberculosis. At least ten people have died of TB in the past four to five years 2013. Community Correspondent Rajesh...
Dirty Water Takes Lives every monsoon
17th March 2015 | Chitrapur, Latehar District, Jharkhand | Anastasiya Tigga 12 families from Chitrapur village are face the threat of serious water-borne diseases because of a broken well. The water in the only well in the village becomes unusable each monsoon. The torrents of rain wash down the dirt...
Villages Health Centre in Jharkhand closed for a year
February 17 2015 | Rampur, Jharkhand | Shanti Baraik The Village Health Centre in Jamidh has been closed for a year, and the doctor only visits occasionally. Residents of Jamidh have to go as far as 60 kilometres for medical attention. “The doctor only comes during child deliveries, he doesn’t...
Malnutrition in Jharkhand, Anganwadi dysfunctional
February 17; Koderma, Jharkhand An Anganwadi centre has been in Behradih village block for 10 years now, but no women or children in the village have ever received any benefits that such a centre should accord for. Babita Devi, a dalit resident, lost her 2-year-old daughter because of malnutrition. The...
Nutrition and Education: A case for Anganwadi in a slum settlement
Kadru Kumhar Toli, a slum settlement in Ranchi, Jharkhand, is home to about 250 families. 49 children in this community are below the age of 5 but there is no Anganwadi centre around. Community Correspondent Nirmala Ekka’s report shows that Anganwadi would go a long way in escalating the poor...
Waterlogged roads breeding diseases
Our VV-PACS community correspondent Navita Devi reports from Musapur village, in Katihar district of Bihar, on the bad condition of the roads. The roads in this neglected part of the village have not been laid properly and get waterlogged during rains. The clogged water, then, enters the houses and compounds....
Corrupt ASHA workers harass villagers
“Even though my baby died, ASHA workers took money from me,” says Indu Devi, a resident of Ahinkatol village, in Bihar’s Katihar district. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) are community health workers instituted by the government. They are trained to work as health educators in their localities but, as this...