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.

Motorcycle Ambulance In Chhattisgarh Has Saved Over 200 Lives In Remote Villages Of Bastar

The motorcycle-ambulance has successfully ferried over 300 patients to the hospitals from “adverse areas”, of whom 80 per cent are pregnant women.

The Sight of a Blind Farmer Gave This Man the Vision to Create a Better Bihar

What do a football programme, a hospital and a vocational training programme have in common? One man’s vision for a better Bihar.

People of Poi Tanda vs the Grim Reaper

In drought-hit Marathwada, where death looms large, Poi Tanda, a nondescript hamlet in Beed, is winning the fight.

More people should use this zero sewage discharge toilet

Main advantages include - Needs barely 5-6 l of water, No solid waste output, Only colourless, odourless liquid is output

Rooftop rainwater harvesting at Chhattisgarh school reduces absenteeism

The villagers now have access to clean and safe drinking water, and are also not dealing as much with scarcity.

What it takes to Clean India

The cost per unit (consisting of a bathroom and toilet), with recycled water supply, in a rural area is Rs 50,000.

Eco Femme : Cut from a different cloth

This Auroville-based company makes reusable sanitary napkins from cloth, which are both environment-friendly and cheaper

Uger: New beginnings in sustainable, safe, and dignified menstruation

Uger, a grassroots enterprise, is helping Indian women understand why they need to look beyond the disposable pad.

Lessons in caring

Compassionate people in many communities have started becoming proxy families of the mentally ill and homeless.