Health and Hygiene

Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine

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This section features stories of initiatives ensuring healthcare for all. These are based on approaches that help prevent ill-health in the first place, including the provision of nutritional food, enabling an environment that is healthy, and so on. They include ensuring access to curative facilities to those who have conventionally not had such access. And they have stories of synergizing various health systems, traditional and modern, bringing back into popular use the diverse systems from India and outside including indigenous/folk medicine, nature cure, Ayurvedic, Unani and other such systems, and other holistic or integrative approaches. Community-based management and control of healthcare and hygiene, and ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in health, would be part of the stories featured here.

Gond children learn to conserve forests

They took an oath to protect their forest. After several discussions, residents of all the adjacent villages agreed to protect the forest.

The jackfruit man

“Jackfruit is a kalpavriksha, a tree of God. Every part of it is useful..."

Farmers revert to traditional bio-fences for multiple benefits

"With trees like kiluvai you can feel a cooler micro-climate in the farms, and observe more moisture retention"

Organic farm lessons for school students

Students are being trained in organic vegetable farming for which kitchen gardens have been developed in each school.

The story of a doctor who reunites lost, mentally-ill patients with their families

As soon as he entered the house, a commotion broke out. His elderly parents began crying with joy. Why?

Farming for Healing

What does it take to create and maintain an organic medicinal farm, in the face of rampant development?

Schools turn nutrition gardens in Mizoram district

To make every school, Anganwadi, child care institution and hostel in Lawngtlai self-sufficient in local fruits and vegetables

When wasteland bears fruits

A neighbourhood forest, explains Anasuyamma, spreads across 12-16 hectares (ha) and usually grows timber, fruits and medicinal plants.

Idlis get a unique makeover at Visakhapatnam’s latest food startup

His venture called Vasena Poli has turned into a go-to place for many fitness freaks, medical practitioners and young college goers.