Asha Workers

Solidarity and protest: How an ASHA worker in Kolhapur addresses villagers' mental health concerns, fights for better wages

Even before COVID-19 duty, ASHA workers were overworked and underpaid, and the fallouts of these are visible.

In the grip of second COVID-19 wave, Kolhapur's ASHA workers challenge vaccine hesitancy, misinformation

As of 12 May 2021, Kolhapur had reported over 82,763 overall COVID-19 cases, with the number of deceased at 2,840 — a fatality rate of 3.5 percent, the highest in Maharashtra.

Centre issues new guidelines for COVID-19 containment in peri-urban and rural areas

The Union Health Ministry said that symptomatic cases can be triaged in villages by tele-consultation with community health officers (CHO)

Assam Assembly Election 2021: Women healthcare workers rue meagre salary and lack of facilities, say let down by successive govts

ASHA workers are not just underpaid, but largely overworked and, due to their exposure to diseases, often left vulnerable

'Kill Corona' campaign in MP can help fight COVID-19, but will it reverse spike in Bhopal, Gwalior-Chambal belt?

With three of six districts in election-bound Gwalior-Chambal belt recording over 100% growth in COVID-19 cases, it will be a major challenge for Chouhan govt to campaign and organise elections without creating new hotspots

Coronavirus Updates: After Bengal, MP announces two-day lockdown every week in districts with high caseload

Coronavirus Updates: All activities, except essential services, will be restricted during the lockdown, said chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

Despite hurdles, nine child cancer patients reach home from Mumbai during lockdown; parents relieved, but worry about livelihood

While the families of the child cancer patients are grateful to be back at home, some of them faced problems they hadn’t anticipated.

New Education Policy lacks focus on children with special needs, misses opportunity of recommending mandatory screening

Teacher educational courses must be tweaked to enable all teachers to develop the right attitude and the knowledge to screen children with disabilities and provide the required support.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Uttar Pradesh Police files FIR against five, arrests two for manhandling ASHA worker in Gonda district

Two people were arrested for allegedly verbally abusing and manhandling an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker in Takiya area in Bhauri Ganj

Coronavirus Outbreak: Rural Maharashtra's ASHA workers toil despite lack of safety measures, limited pay

Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers, the foot soldiers of rural healthcare in India, earn about Rs 3000 per month. Tasked with surveying households and spreading awareness about the coronavirus pandemic, these workers find themselves exposed to risk due to a lack of adequate masks and no sanitisers