Swagata Yadavar
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Mumbai, MH, India
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‘I Tried Killing Myself Twice Due To My Abusive Husband. I Am Speaking Out So That No One Else Does’
'I Tried Killing Myself Twice Due To My Abusive Husband. I Am Speaking Out So That No One Else Does' | | IndiaSpend Sun, 4th Nov, 2018 → Read More
Rs 3: Amount India Spends Every Day On Each Indian’s Health
New Delhi: The amount India spends on public health per capita every year is Rs 1,112, less than the cost of a single consultation at the country’s top private hospitals--or roughly the cost of a pizza at many hotels. That comes to Rs 93 per month or Rs 3 per day. At 1.02 → Read More
Budget 2018: India’s Healthcare Crisis Is Holding back National Potential
India has the world’s highest population of stunted children--short for their age--and the country’s failing primary healthcare and overburdened tertiary care are ill-equipped to handle the crisis of childhood malnutrition, leaving India unable to fulfil its national potential. → Read More
Educating Girls Can Reduce India’s Population Spiral
If a girl in India studies for 12 years or more--till the age of 18--she is less likely to have teenage pregnancy, less likely to have shorter interval between children and less likely to have more than two children during her lifetime, according to the latest national health data. → Read More
Five Years Since Nirbhaya, Rape Survivors Still Don’t Get Justice Or Support
Students protest the rising violence against women following the gangrape and death of Nirbhaya, in December 2012. Despite legal reforms that followed, women and girls who survive rape and other sexual violence often suffer humiliation at police stations and hospitals. → Read More
First Demonetisation, Then Loan Waiver: Main Bank For Onion Farmers In Crisis
Customers line-up at the a branch of the Nashik District Central Cooperative Bank, but only a few are allowed to withdraw up to a limit of Rs 25,000--they must prove a medical emergency or marital need. → Read More
Demonetisation: A Year On, Onion Farmers In Cash Crisis As Banking System Fails To Cope
Vijay Nikam, an onion farmer from Maharashtra’s Nashik district, does not have a smartphone, has not heard of netbanking and the ATMs in the nearest town are always out of cash. He had no money for Diwali. → Read More
Why India’s National Health Insurance Scheme Has Failed Its Poor
Beneficiaries enroll themselves for the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Andhra Pradesh. The programme has not led to any reduction in out-of-pocket expenditure by its 150 million beneficiaries, according to a new study. → Read More
Indian Children Remain Underweight Even As Childhood Obesity Soars Globally
Obesity among children between the ages of five and 19 years has increased ten times over the past four decades across the world, a new global study has found. → Read More
India Falls 3 Places In Latest Global Hunger Index, Ranks 100 Of 119 Nations
With more than a fifth (21%) of its children wasted--low weight for height--India ranks 100 of 119 countries in the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI), down three places from 97 last year. → Read More
As Controversy Grows, Firecrackers Emit Toxins 200 to 2,000 Times Above Safe Limits
While a Supreme Court decision to ban the sale--not the use--of firecrackers for the 2017 Diwali season is proving contentious, the pollution generated by popular fireworks ranges between hundreds and thousands of times above safe levels. → Read More
In India’s Cities, Malnourished Children And Obese Adults
India is now dealing with the twin issues of undernutrition and overnutrition, both swelling its burden of non-communicable diseases, according to a recent study conducted by National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). → Read More
India Has Prevented 1 Million Child Deaths Since 2005; Poorer States, Rural Areas Lag
India prevented 1 million deaths among children under five years of age between 2005 and 2015. Three million more deaths could have been prevented had all of India performed as well as some states, a new study published in the international health journal Lancet on September 19 said. → Read More
Of 5 nations, India Has Highest Proportion Of Policymakers Ignorant Of SDGs: New Study
Even as India struggles to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) -- a set of universal goals to end poverty, hunger and achieve equality-- policymakers are not really aware of the key indicators of gender equality, a new study has found. → Read More
India Is Failing Its Infants Long Before They Arrive At Hospital
A low birth weight baby at Sick New Born Care Unit, Kashida, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. The death of 70 infants in an Uttar Pradesh hospital was followed by similar stories from across the country. → Read More
In India’s Malaria Hotbed, A Remote, Tribal Village Fights Back
A health worker collects the blood sample of a child at mass screening for malaria at Budabirmaha, a hamlet in Kandhamal district, Odisha. With Odisha accounting for 41% of India’s 1 million malaria cases in 2016, the success of a new programme is crucial for India’s fight against malaria. → Read More
In India’s Malaria Hotbed, A Remote, Tribal Village Fights Back
A health worker taking the blood sample of a child at mass screening for malaria at Budabirmaha. Children below five were also screening for anaemia and stunting during the screening. → Read More
“The Presence Of A Toilet Alone Does Not Guarantee It Will Be Used”
Only a third of households surveyed by non-profit WaterAid India in 2016 across nine states and 34 districts had access to toilets, and 64% had at least a family member defecating in the open. → Read More
‘Gender Discrimination A Key Underlying Cause Of Malnutrition In India’
The condition of girls and women-–their nutrition, health and social status--is one of the indirect cause of under-nutrition in India, said Purnima Menon, 46, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a think tank. → Read More
27 Regional Hubs, 300 Hospitals, Yet Patients Journey To 1 Mumbai Cancer Centre
1 million are diagnosed with cancer every year; 680,000 of them die. India’s cancer burden to rise 70% by 2035. Mumbai: Carrying thin plastic bags full of medical reports, about 30 cancer patients queue up outside Pankaj Chaturvedi’s office on the second floor of the Homi Bhabha Wing of t... → Read More