A 60-year-old woman washing soiled bedspreads and pillow cases at a hospital with bare hands would be shocking a scene. Dr. Perumal says, “Out of the 1,456 deliveries performed in a nine-month period till September of last year, 992 were normal and 464 LSCS - that is 1 LSCS for every three normal deliveries.” “If the CHC is upgraded with …
On the day in late April, when Hindustan Times managed to reach Sanawar Chauhan, 45, over phone, the resident of Khardauni village in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district is in the village graveyard, helping oversee the burial of a man he identifies as Sharafat, a 55-year old who died that very morning. Chief medical officer Dr Akhilesh Mohan said instructions have …
On October 2, 2014 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission, he said the aim was to improve India's sanitation. But, while the government may pat its back with its claims of constructing over 9.5 crore toilets across India since 2014, an IndiaToday.in analysis of the latest data on rural health infrastructure reveals that 38 per cent …
