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.

In Ahmednagar, residents of a slum design their own homes

"... Just asking the communities that they are building for, how is it that they imagine their home to look?”

The Art of Getting by – COVID-19 and Self-reliance

How a spontaneous switch to a barter economy saved a little hamlet in the Sundarbans during lockdown

महामारी में फुटपाथ की जिंदगी (in Hindi)

दिल्ली के हाशिये पर रहनेवाले जरूरतमंद लोगों का दुख-दर्द साझा किया, उनके भोजन, राशन और इलाज में मदद की।

पुण्यात श्वासासाठी शुद्ध हवा नको का? (in Marathi)

फुप्फुसाची मोठी प्रतिकृती शहरातील हमरस्त्यावर! 'स्वच्छ हवा, माझा हक्क!'

कारपेक्षा बसचा वापर केला तर प्रदूषण १५ पट कमी (in Marathi)

महाराष्ट्र सरकारने पंधराव्या वित्त आयोगाच्या अहवालातील, हवेची गुणवत्ता सुधारण्यासाठीच्या एकूण तरतुदीपैकी ८० टक्के निधी ई-बस सेवेसाठी वापरण्याचा प्रस्ताव ठेवला आहे, हे स्वागतार्ह आहे.

Millet farming brings nutrition, financial security for women farmers in Bihar

"At one time I couldn’t even ride a bicycle and now I drive a scooty,” she says with a gentle laugh.

महामारी में फुलवारी के पलते बच्चे (in Hindi)

महामारी के दौरान फुलवारी से बच्चों को पोषण मिला। यहां की रसोई से गर्भवती महिलाओं व जरूरतमंद मजदूरों को भी भोजन मिला।

झारखण्ड के एक आदिवासी गाँव द्वारा एथ्नोमेडिसिन ज्ञान को बचाए रखने का प्रयास (in Hindi)

स्थानीय महिलाओं ने एथ्नोमेडिसिन चिकित्सा के ज्ञान को आने वाली पीढ़ियों के लिए संग्रहित करने की इच्छा जताई।

How Adivasis of one Jharkhand village are trying to preserve ethnomedicine

Local women expressed the need for documenting the knowledge of ethnomedical practices and feared that all this knowledge would disappear with their generation.