The health of Indians is being ravaged by the burning of roadside trash piles, a new American study says. Duke University Professor Michael Bergin, whose lab carried out the study, said that “somebody standing near one of these fires is getting a dose of toxins 1,000 times greater than they would from the ambient air.” …
At the government-run Veerangana Avanti Bai Women’s Hospital in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, mothers are quietly nurturing their premature infants through their touch. With music in the background, the skin-to-skin contact or Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) between the mother and the baby works to ensure the survival of these babies. This simple intervention .has the potential …
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HII last week wrote about the fact that suicide, being the leading cause of death among the young in India last year, should be looked at as a legitimate national health priority. We spoke about how lack of infrastructure and awareness of mental health issues seems to disproportionately affect people living in urban centres. Now …
We at HII have constantly emphasised that health issues in India are not treated as socio-political issues. Our spending on health, as a percentage of GDP, is below countries like Rwanda and Bangladesh. Millions of impoverished people still have to travel hundreds of kilometres to cities like New Delhi and wait in long lines to …
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Earlier this month the United Nations High Level Panel (HLP) on Access to Medicines released their long-awaited final report. The multinational panel was convened in September last year by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, as a response to global inequality of access to medicines, with the stated objective: “to review and assess proposals and …
Deaths from infectious mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya are on the rise in India, with an uptick in infections since the beginning of September. Seventy fatalities from dengue are reported across the country, including eighteen deaths in Delhi where there are 1,158 infections according to a Times of India report, citing data from …
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Recent controversies such as the tragedy of an Odisha man forced to walk 10km whilst carrying his wife’s body over his shoulder (pictured) after the state were unable to provide an ambulance have intensified calls for the healthcare sector in India to be rejuvenated to accommodate the demands of the population. Credit:picture from Indian express …
Health Issues India has been committed to tracking stories about the healthcare situation in India stories that outline progress made by India in order to ensure better health outcomes to all. A global study of health indicators released a few days ago has outlined how much India still needs to achieve in order to ensure that …
Towards the end of August 2016, the Health Ministry of India had issued an alert warning the population about increased cases of chikungunya and dengue, and has urged city officials to take preventative measures to avoid major outbreaks. India is not a stranger to such tropical infections especially dengue. Every year, the country is subject …
Last month, a team of researchers from the Centre for Molecular Medicine at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi working on the BCG (Bacillus Calmette–Guérin), a vaccine commonly used to treat cases of tuberculosis have been able to improve the efficacy the treatment by a factor of 50 in mice. This was achieved by …
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