India Together: Patients’ rights on the rise – 04 April 2011
Amidst a rising tide of reports of medical negligence in the media, the courts have stepped in to interpret laws in favour of patients, and to award large punitive damages.…
India Together: By the Holy book – 16 January 2011
A family planning programme in Assam uses texts from the Holy Quran, encouraging husbands to accept sterilisation to promote the health and well-bring of their family. Ratna Bharali Talukdar reports.…
India Together: Badaun cleans up its act – 30 October 2010
The Badaun district administration in UP is on a war-footing to convert all dry toilets and rehabilitate manual scavengers before the end of the year. Over the last few months…
India Together: New interventions for the deafblind – 10 July 2010
A number of development organisations are working to diagnose deafblindess in children, and provide learning tools and techniques that can mainstream them. Freny Manecksha reports. 10 July 2010 – As…
India Together: Better healthcare, on our watch – 07 June 2010
A pilot project in community-based monitoring under the National Rural Health Mission in three districts of Jharkhand provides encouraging results. Freny Manecksha reports. Source link
India Together: Healthcare: A policy of neglect – 24 May 2010
The main culprit for the low standards of medical education and the credibility of the regulator is government policy itself, which has consistently placed a low priority on healthcare, notes…
India Together: Growing focus on palliative care – 15 March 2010
Kerala’s palliative care movement shows health services can go well beyond the biomedical model of health and be seen as an affirmative act of living with dignity. Freny Manecksha reports.…
India Together: A ray of dancing light – 15 March 2010
Mental illness is an isolating experience which shuts off those affected from experiencing the fun and laughter of everyday life. Kolkata Sanved is working to change that, writes Shoma Chatterji.…
India Together: A ray of dancing light – 15 March 2010
Mental illness is an isolating experience which shuts off those affected from experiencing the fun and laughter of everyday life. Kolkata Sanved is working to change that, writes Shoma Chatterji.…
India Together: Implement the UNCRPD, say activists – 08 February 2010
India has ratified the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, but done very little to protect the rights of the disabled in accordance with it. Freny Manecksha…