Health issues in India
On World Toilet Day, United Nations figures on open defecation and toilets across the world should ring alarm bells. Four billion people still lack access to basic sanitation facilities. Each day, nearly a thousand children are dying due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrhoeal diseases. What’s the situation in India? “Four years since Swachh Bharat’s […]
As Delhiites choke on smog, are efforts across the border efforts to make Pakistan “clean and green” bearing fruit? The newly elected Government of Pakistan under Prime Minister Imran Khan had made tackling environmental challenges an election agenda. Since coming to office, Khan has launched his vision for a “Clean, Green Pakistan” – with the […]
Swachh Bharat, or Clean India, is typically seen as just an endeavour to place toilets in villages and encourage hand washing. While these things seem like simple measures to improve sanitation, the knock on effect of doing so could have far more wide ranging consequences. Three of seven most common causes of disease and death […]
Hyderabad has been declared open defecation free (ODF) by the Indian government. A Quality Council of India (QCI) inspectorate visited the city to check its sanitation facilities. This followed a series of efforts by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to boost access to sanitation in the Telangana state capital. The measures included the […]
India’s environmental performance is one of the worst in the world. On environmental health, it’s the worst. A global index places India 177th place in a list of 180 countries ranked on their environmental performance. Only the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bangladesh and Burundi place lower. The Economic Performance Index (EPI) measures rankings against […]
WaterAid claims 732 million Indians lack access to toilets. The government, however, dismisses the findings as ‘factually incorrect.’ Is basic sanitation lacking in India? The State of the World’s Toilets Report, 2017 says India has the most people in the world without access to ‘at least basic sanitation.’ The reports claims that 40 percent of […]
Hospitals are home to some of the most vulnerable in society: the sick and the elderly. What if these hospitals are putting these vulnerable people at risk of potentially more deadly conditions than they arrived with? This is currently the case in many hospitals in Lucknow, where the hospitals themselves have become breeding grounds for […]
The Modi administration has pledged massive reforms to healthcare, with its National Health Policy (NHP) being perhaps one of the most ambitious healthcare projects in the world. However, providing adequate healthcare to a population as large as India’s calls for a phenomenal budget. The results of the NHP programme, as well as the Swachh Bharat […]
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