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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.
Purge incorrect, derogatory references to LGBTQIA+ persons: National Medical Commission
NMC issues advisory to medical colleges and textbook authors; decision flows from a landmark June 2021 judgment by Madras HC
Is a third wave of Covid-19 coming this festive season?
With major festivals coming up through the month of October, there are fears of the dreaded disease spreading again
Shrey Hospital Fire: Victims’ families move court demanding CBI inquiry
While victims’ families claim city cops have botched the investigation, DA Mehta inquiry commission report hauls hospital administration and state government over the coals
UP: After mystery viral, diarrhea cases put Azamgarh hospitals under stress
Barely out of the viral crisis, UP’s Azamgarh region now reports a worrying number of diarrhea cases
Uttar Pradesh: Any neta taking notice of recent dengue, rain related deaths?
Local news reports that over 100 may have succumbed to dengue, viral fever, 24 dead in rain-related incidents
Is India exploiting its ASHA workers?
Successive governments have ignored these baseline health workers who receive low remunerations that are often delayed; they aren’t even given proper Covid kits
At least 16 dengue deaths within 3 days in UP
Families faced with lack of hospital beds in dengue-ridden districts like Firozabad and Gorakhpur
MP High Court bats for prisoners’ right to health, calls for setting up PHCs in prisons
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The court has sought a report from the state government in this regard and aims to follow up on how absence of basic medical care in prisons affects human rights of prisoners
Student leaders demand reopening of colleges, deem online education inadequate
Student representatives from JNU, JMI, AMU come together on the call of the SIO to discuss the urgent need to reopen campuses
Families of deceased UP teachers still waiting for ex-gratia payment
SabrangIndia speaks to families of primary teachers who died while carrying out panchayat election duties in Uttar Pradesh; the government is yet to disburse compensation money
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