More Sanitation, Literacy = Fewer Anaemic, Pregnant Women
A frontline health worker counsels a pregnant woman on antenatal care, in Banswara district, Rajasthan. All 14 states...
Most Medical Colleges But Least Doctors
India is woefully short when it comes to healthcare for its citizens. IndiaSpend's Sourjya Bhowmick surveys what the...
2,234 Get HIV Via Blood Transfusion. We Didn't Know: Govt To Lok Sabha
Activists take part in an AIDS awareness rally in Kolkata, West Bengal. Despite a 5% decline in the number of patients...
Why India Needs 35 Tankers Of Blood
India is 35 tanker-trucks short of the blood it requires for medical procedures, yet some areas of the country wasted...
India Short Of 500,000 Doctors, Bodies On Shoulders Reminders Of Health Crisis
In Odisha, a man slung his wife's body over his shoulder and carried it 10 km after being denied an ambulance on August...
Private Hospitals Treat Twice As Many TB Cases As Govt
A woman walks by as municipal workers fumigate a street in central Mumbai. India now has an enormous number of...
India's Quiet Tide Of Childhood Obesity
Madurai: When 12-year-old Madhu (not his real name) was diagnosed as obese—he weighed 98 kg when his ideal weight was 55...
How Mysore Beat Chandigarh To Be India's Cleanest City
Chandigarh, India's first planned city--known for wide roads laid out in geometrical precision and large, green spaces...
