Rural Healthcare

Tamil Nadu Lockdown Diary: From enforcing COVID-19 quarantine to managing alcohol withdrawal symptoms, health workers in rural TN have their task cut out

In rural Tamil Nadu, a health sub-centre is the first institution from the primary health care system that anybody from the community would turn to,

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

Free diagnostic camps seek to revolutionise healthcare in rural India, but affordability of medicines affecting impact

However, free diagnosis solves only a part of the problem for these villagers.

Venkaiah Naidu urges private sector, NGOs to supplement govt efforts for better rural healthcare

The private sector and NGOs should supplement the efforts to provide better healthcare in rural areas, vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday.

Chhattisgarh's solar-powered PHCs show how using alternate sources of energy can transform healthcare in India

More than 50% more patients were admitted and almost twice the number of babies were delivered in a month in solar-powered PHCs in Chhattisgarh.

Kangaroo mother care can help reduce neonatal mortality rate in India

If Indian mothers can be persuaded to care for their babies like kangaroo mothers do, many babies younger than four weeks who die every year can be saved.

Ward boy as paramedic: Middle India must bring up the rear

Does the suspension of ward boys and sweepers giving injections or dressing wounds serve any purpose? Or should they be upskilled?