he Delhi government has asked five private hospitals in the city – Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Max Super Specialty Hospital (Saket), Shanti Mukand Hospital, Dharamshila Cancer Hospital and Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute – to deposit ‘unwarranted profits’ of over Rs 600 crore for refusing free treatment to the poor, the prime condition for land allotment…
The World’s Women 2015 report claims that the country with the lowest sex ratio in under-5 mortality is India, with a ratio of 93 (93 boys die before age 5 for 100 girls that die by that age). This is also the only country with an under-5 mortality sex ratio under 100 (more girls die…
Walking blindfolded along with visually-impaired school children, celebrated painter Jatin Das led the SCEH-IVI ‘Walk in the Dark’ at Daryaganj, Delhi, to spread awareness about eradicating preventable blindness. The Walk was organised by Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital (SCEH) in partnership with India Vision Institute (IVI). India is home to 131 million visually impaired…
The men and women of Dharavi, the world’s largest slum, were quite curious about Kissa Yoni Ka, the Hindi translation of The Vagina Monologues, which they heard was a bold play about a never-spoken-about part of the woman’s body. As the performance started one could hear peals of soft laughter, which soon became louder and…
More than one-third of under five-year-olds living in Delhi’s slums are malnourished, concludes a study by Child Rights and You (CRY) and Alliance for People’s rights (APR). The study, aimed at grasping the extent of malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies among the 0″5 years age group in urban Delhi and analysing the causative factors thereof, found…
Anshu Gupta from Goonj has been declared as Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY) India 2012, by Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of World Economic Forum, in partnership with Jubilant Bhartia Foundation. The award was conferred by Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit. Goonj has demonstrated that cloth can be a…
On paper, Advanced Medicare and Research Institute’s (AMRI) vision is/was to be cherished as the best place to come for care and the best place to work. The ‘corporate governance‘ section, among other things, on the hospital’s website says this: AMRI is committed to meeting the highest standards of ethical behaviour and appropriate business conduct…
The latest World Bank study – ‘Impact of Targeted Interventions on Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in India’ – estimates that India will ward off about three million new HIV infections during the period 1995″2015 by using targeted interventions among vulnerable groups. The study, released yesterday, evaluated the impact of targeted interventions among female sex workers…
India will meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended norm of one doctor per 1,000 people by the year 2028. This conclusion has been arrived at by the Planning Commission’s high-level expert group (HLEG) on universal health coverage (UHC), headed by Dr K Srinath Reddy. However, achieving this target will be contingent upon setting up…
Bina Kalindi, a fourteen-year-old girl, has been fighting a battle against child marriage in her village Purulia, West Bengal, for years now. She diligently goes from door to door, spreading awareness and convincing families of the ills of this social evil. She was just twelve when she resisted her father’s efforts to get her married…
