Arunachal Pradesh and Assam could witness flooding. The river the northeastern states share with China is swelling following heavy rainfall. The Brahmaputra river flows through China, India and Bangladesh. It originates in Tibet with the Tsangpo river and enters India via the Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh with the Siang River. The Siang then …
In August 2016, a tribal man in Odisha walked ten kilometres from the hospital where his wife died. He carried her body with him – in the presence, no less, of his twelve-year-old daughter. He was forced to do so because the state hospital could not provide an ambulance. The incident served as a graphic …
Access to healthcare has improved in India since 1990 – but not enough. Meanwhile, inequality persists. The country takes the 145th place out of 195 countries on the Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index. This measures the accessibility and quality of healthcare in countries by drawing on a plethora of data, including the 2016 Global …
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A new survey reveals that pitifully few families living in the northeastern Indian state of Assam have health coverage, reports the Times of India The latest National Family Health Survey, for 2015-16, reveals that just 10.4% of families living in rural Assam have at least one member covered by health insurance or under a health scheme. This …
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