Health and Hygiene

Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine

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.

Who is Dr Rajendra Bharud, the Nandurbar collector who foresaw the need of oxygen plants

When there was a steady decline in cases, he set up their first liquid oxygen plant at the district hospital

This toll-free helpline is helping people in Maharashtra cope with Covid fatigue, anger, panic

With several adolescents reaching out for help, 15 more counsellors now exclusively address their concerns. 9594972342

संथाली बच्चों के घर पहुंचा स्कूल (in Hindi)

बच्चों के घऱ आया स्कूल, अध्ययन केंद्र में पढ़ाई हो रही है।

सिर्फ दवा से ही नहीं, समुदाय से भी इलाज (in Hindi)

यहां दवा के साथ समुदाय सहायता समूहों के जरिए इलाज किया जाता है।

Making Informed Choices, Bleeding Clean

How conversations around sustainable menstruation were enabled in Kerala

आत्मनिर्भरता की मिसाल है पहाड़ी खेती (in Hindi)

जो युवा बाहर से गांव में लौटे हैं, उन्हें खेती के काम से जोड़ा, प्रशिक्षण भी दिया।

The Indian school where students pay for lessons with plastic waste

Students collect over 10,000 pieces of plastic each month and transform them into eco-bricks for construction.

Pune: Bavdhan Residents To Observe ‘No Vehicle Day’ On First Sunday Of Every Month

You can walk, run, cycle, use public transport but not start your two-wheeler or your car

How this Kerala doctor-couple is empowering a TN tribal community

To ensure the health of the community in its wider meaning you have to work on farming, watershed management, artisans ...