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Don’t want any death in tribal areas due to lack of medical aid, malnutrition: Bombay HC to Maharashtra govt

The plea also raised concerns on the dearth of gynecologists, pediatricians and radiologists in public health centres in Melghat and other tribal areas in the state. MUMBAI: Tribals have to be brought into the mainstream for health care, Bombay high court said… Continue Reading →

Cinematic portrayal(s) of People with Disability #SundayReading

Humanizing or Objectifying? by-Sania Muzamil The cinematic representation of people with disability becomes an important means through which real life meanings and practices are understood and associated. Themes portrayed and discourses engaged with in the representation of disability play an… Continue Reading →

Women’s Mental Load- Exacerbation during the Covid-19 pandemic

A Year gone by: by Sania Muzamil It has been a year and a half since India abruptly shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The subsequent lockdown has been a testing experience for everyone. The world came to a… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra Health Survey once again proves Health workers toiled, but the under-resourced Health system faltered

The survey was carried out in July this year and covered 122 primary health centres (PHCs), 24 rural hospitals and 14 sub-district hospitals in 17 Maharashtra districts Key findings- State level survey on Rural health services by Jan Arogya Abhiyan… Continue Reading →

Bihar – Differently-abled minor girl raped in Samastipur #Vaw

Patna, Aug 23 (IANS) A differently-abled teenage girl was allegedly raped in Bihar’s Samastipur district, a police officer said on Monday. The victim was alone in her house when a youth from the same locality brutally raped her. She was… Continue Reading →

Activists Launch ‘Hamara Sankalp- Swasthya Ka Adhikaar! Movement

Jan Swasthya Abhiyan- and Jan Andolananchi Sangharsh Samiti Our Resolve- Health Care for All! Hamara Sankalp- Swasthya Ka Adhikaar! Movement demands public health system strengthening, regulation of private hospitals, justice for health workers, and Right to Healthcare act The ongoing… Continue Reading →

Disability Discrimination: Innocent but Blatant

Francine Falk-AllenJuly 26, 2021 The feeling of separation hurt me; I saw myself as capable, intelligent and equal, and that this odd leg should be a characteristic that was overlooked… Though early childhood polio left me with a conspicuous disability,… Continue Reading →

A “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction

The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months… Continue Reading →

Tamil Nadu -After two days of protests by victim’s daughter, Tenkasi cops booked for assaulting disabled man

Posted On June 24, 2021 Abitha’s father Francis Antony (50) said that the SI and the constable had abused and beaten him on his buttocks with a lathi. TENKASI: A Sub-Inspector and a head constable were booked for allegedly assaulting… Continue Reading →

Modi government issuing national health ID stealthily without informed consent

CoWIN app, used to book vaccination slots, has begun to enforce Aadhaar facial/biometric/OTP or demographic verification. These details are then used to create a health ID without informed consent By- Ashlin Mathew : 5 Jun 2021, The government of India… Continue Reading →

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