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Gujarat: A Painful Period in Salt Pans of Little Rann of Kutch

Women workers go through a cycle of agony in the eight months they toil in salt pans, where poor water availability and lack of medical help make monthly bleeding scary.

Save the Saviours! IMA’s theme for National Doctors’ Day 2021

The medical association honours all healthcare and frontline workers for their dedication during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Childhood vaccination rate declines worldwide for the first time in 28 years!

New research by Collateral Global shows Coronavirus pandemic restrictions significantly decreased global childhood vaccination rates

Unmaintained Toilets ‘hotbeds’ of Corona spread in India: Pragya Akhilesh

Interview with a sanitation crusader, often hailed as the “Toilet woman of India”; she found 46,000 active ‘dry latrines’ in India

Protect people’s health and life: JSA to gov’ts

Public health campaigner demands healthcare, vaccination for all

92 percent of India’s workforce faces historic and unprecedented crisis: SWAN report

The report relays the struggles of workers in their own words, the limited action taken by the central and state governments to arrest the continuing and alarming level of distress

650 doctors dead due to Covid-19 in around 2 months

As per latest state-wise break-up, Delhi still has the highest number of deaths; Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu report a sizable increase in doctors’ death within a span of eight days.

Covid-19: Finally, PM steers a U-turn on vaccine policy after SC seeks plan

Free vaccines for all has been a demand raised by many states, Opposition leaders including four CMs consistently asked the Centre to start free mass vaccination

Maharashtra eases Covid restrictions using five-level unlock plan

While government officials divided districts into five levels as early as June 3, the categorisation will change weekly based on improving statistics

Great Number Game of Vaccine Funding: Zero Allotment = Rs. 35000 Crores !!!

Image Courtesy:moneycontrol.comFor more than over a month since last...

Rajasthan HC asks why Pak minority migrants not given Covid vaccine despite court orders

It has been alleged that the migrants are not getting inoculated for lack of Aadhaar cards, and some are also not receiving ration kits

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