-67 per cent adolescent girls in Jharkhand suffer against a national average of 56 per cent
A former anaemia patient who recovered after the intake of iron folic acid (IFA) tablets, fruits and vegetables, she is now going door to door, counselling people on how to combat anaemia, as a peer educator jointly for Unicef and state human resource development (HRD) department.
Women are a social group vulnerable to food insecurity despite being primary actors in the food chain. The problem of food insecurity among women is especially rampant in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.
UMAID Two foetuses die, 10 survive; first probe finds `tainted' IV fluid, doctors say need to probe more IT took 10 days and the death of 12 fullterm pregnant women in Jodhpur in Rajasthan before state health authorities woke up to suspect that all might have died after being administered "infected" intravenous "dextrose and ringer lactose" fluids.
NEW DELHI: Domestic women workers in the Capital have to do with inaccessible, unaffordable and poor quality maternal health care, according to a paper on
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on welfare programmes. Down To Earth finds out how cash transfer works and how ready is India for the shift in the delivery of welfare schemes.
Only 31 per cent of pregnant women in tribal taluka of Kaprada in Valsad district made use of institutional delivery system, which was lowest in Gujarat, a recent districtlevel health survey has revealed. Eighty-five per cent of the population in the 100 per cent tribal dominated taluka live below the poverty line. The tribals have more faith in the medicines of witch doctors and midwives.
KOLKATA, 3 FEB: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to bear the travel cost of pregnant women of the Sunderbans after it was found that most of these women shied away from attending hospitals for their delivery as they are located in far-flung areas.
Senior state health officials said motorboats used to ferry people would be hired by NRHM officials for ferrying pregnant women
