Health issues in India
Amidst India going to the polls to determine the composition of the 17th Lok Sabha, by-elections took place in Tamil Nadu to fill eighteen constituencies in the state’s Legislative Assembly. And in one village, residents are refusing to participate. The reason? Pollution. A polling booth established in the village of Nagaraja Kandigai has not seen […]
Poisonous air is causing toxic damage to people across the world. Nine out of ten of us breathe polluted air. Now for the first time, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has highlighted its damaging impact on child health and survival. Over 93 percent of the world’s 1.8 billion children are exposed to toxic air […]
For many women in rural India, both postnatal and antenatal care are all but non-existent. Healthcare facilities are often out of reach. This alone is a significant contributing factor to both maternal and neonatal deaths in India, which is among the highest in the world. Could the minds of India’s start-ups begin to alleviate the […]
