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.

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.

This Chemistry Professor’s Fight for Arsenic-free Water in Villages of Assam is Slowly Bearing Fruit

More and more schools adopt this technology, train teachers and ask students to build Arsiron Nilogon as science projects

Super seeds

“These seeds have had a huge role in diets as protein supplements. Some have been used in Ayurveda and Unani medicine..."