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.

Today I left the road, went to the margins.

Something like this comes outside my house, every morning, And blinds me, day after day, To see beyond the road, into the margins.

An Incredible Story of a Family That Made a Forest, an Eco-Village and Lives Medicine-Free

Going back to nature also means giving up the illogical ways of modern medicine, for Dr Pravin Chordia.

India’s first camel milk plant to begin by March end in Kutch

Camel milk, good for diabetic, cancer and high blood pressure patients, is being marketed now...

जंगल की बड़ी माँ- केरल की एक आदिवासी महिला जो लगभग ५०० औषधियों के नुस्ख़ों को अपनी स्मरण-शक्ति में संजोये है (in Hindi)

“अपनी स्मरण शक्ति से ही मैं ५०० औषधियाँ तैयार कर सकती हूँ"

Therapy for India’s distressed farmers

For many farmers, sharing and ventilating their toxic and morbid thoughts was cathartic.

Biodiversity plans go to the grassroots

Local bodies in Kerala will soon have a key role in biodiversity management.

जन स्वास्थ्य सहयोग का अनूठा अस्पताल (in Hindi)

यह अस्पताल कम कीमत में बेहतर इलाज का मॉडल तो है ही, देश के लोगों का स्वास्थ्य कैसे बेहतर हो और मौजूदा स्वास्थ्य सुविधाओं में कैसे और क्या बदलाव किया जाए, यह भी इससे सीखा जा सकता है।

How a Clown in Delhi Is Helping Ailing Kids Cope With Tough Times

The clowns enter singing and dancing as they use balloons to ease the atmosphere of stress that the patients and caregivers are undergoing.

Grandmother of the jungle: This Kerala tribal woman can prepare 500 medicines from memory

Hundreds trek to the forests in Thiruvananthapuram district to get treated by Lakshmikutty who offers herbal treatment for poisoning