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.

Same-sex attraction is OK, boys can cry, girl’s no means no

The resource kit for educators of adolescents treats the issue of same-sex attraction with unusual maturity and talks about contraception...

Shaheed Hospital

Chhattisgarh's Shaheed Hospital has been built and is being run by workers themselves. It provides them with many state-of-the-art facilities.

श्रमजीवियों का स्वास्थ्य केन्द्र (in Hindi)

यह स्वास्थ्य कार्यक्रम पूरी तरह आत्मनिर्भर है। यहां कम खर्च में बेहतर इलाज किया जाता है।

Sattvik food aroma suffused with wisdom

The festival (in its 14th year now) is creating awareness about the nutrient-rich food from various areas so that urban people can adopt healthier food habits and lifestyle.

Why Odisha’s Tribal Women Are Returning to Their Natural Roots for Guidance on Food

These women are going back to their native wisdom to, at least, secure the health of their coming generations.

मजदूरों का अपना अस्पताल (in Hindi)

छत्तीसगढ़ का शहीद अस्पताल लौह खदानों के मजदूरोंने खुद बनाया है। उनके लिए कई अत्याधुनिक सुविधाएं यहाँ उपलब्ध हैं। वे इस पर गर्व करते हैं।

In Search of Women’s Health

A gynaecological survey under a health programme shows the devastating situation of women of an Indore slum and how it has been considerably improved

Sanitarily yours…

At a school in Kanchipuram, teachers and students harvest manure from dry composting toilets, thus paying possibly the best tribute to Gandhi

Once homeless, Mumbai heroes revolutionise shoe industry

Two young men launch a company that wants to ensure that no Indian walks barefoot