धधकती और चकाचौंध करती सड़कों से बहुत दूर, जैसे-जैसे पहाड़ियों की चढ़ाई और ढलान आती जा रही थीं, जंगलों और झरनों ने खजूर के पेड़ों से भरे एक समतल जगह को रास्ता दे दिया। यह रावछ था, जो आदिवासीयों द्वारा बसा एक दूरदराज स्थित गाँव है। उदयपुर की गोगुन्दा तहसील में है। एक व्यक्ति अपने … Continue reading गंगा की कहानी : हम जो पोषित करते हैं

Way past the blazing tarmac and its mirages, as the hills sloped up and down, the forests and streams gave way to a plateau dotted with date palms. This was Rawachh, a somewhat-remote, tribal-inhabited village in the Gogunda tehsil (district) of Udaipur. A man had undertaken a 50-kilometer journey from his far-away village in Kotra … Continue reading On Women’s Day ‘Ganga’s story: What We Nurture’

Our lives connect us with so many pathologies, day after day. Some of these, we deal through medicines, some with a human connect and then there are conditions we make peace with vicariously. Through stories which enrich and uplift. With one story each day, the following 7 days will lead up to Women’s day. This … Continue reading CELEBRATING WOMEN WHO ARE CHANGEMAKERS

Written by Pradeepa Sekar I asked my 100th patient of the day, a pregnant woman with a charming face about how she was doing. And she let out a long sigh and said I am well. We both looked into each other’s eyes for a moment and burst out laughing at our hidden truths. It … Continue reading A Girl’s Perspective

By Pavitra Mohan and Naina Seth “According to a study by researchers at the Public Health Foundation of India data, the expenditure on healthcare in India pushes 55 million people into poverty every year, a testimony to the need for affordable healthcare. At the same time, public expenditure on health is declining. In 2018-19, healthcare … Continue reading The long road to the ‘Right to Health’ in India

Written by Srividya Ramanathan, Research Assistant, IIM Udaipur This blog is part of the series of blogs on Aspur Project under the Primary Healthcare Initiative (PHI), a partnership between Basic Healthcare Services and Centre for Healthcare. Srividya has elaborately explained her observations during the visit with the Village Health, Sanitation, and Nutrition Committee (VHSNC) at Harvar Block in Aspur … Continue reading Notes from Harvar: A descriptive and evaluative observation of a VHSNC meeting

Written by Vania D’souza, India Fellow, 2021 While those detected with silicosis receive their compensations after tedious attempts to register, there are many who don’t. “I have been told to come back when my lungs are much worse. They said that I don’t have enough Silicosis present and I should work some more to receive the … Continue reading Silicosis: The Occupational Hazard of Doing God’s Work

Written by Ijyaa Singh, Joint Research Assistant, IIM Udaipur & Basic Healthcare services, Udaipur. To improve access to maternal health, child health, and nutrition (MCHN) services at the village level, MCHN Day is scheduled for every Thursday in Rajasthan. This ensures that services such as antenatal care (ANC), supplementary nutrition, counselling, and referral are provided … Continue reading MCHN Days: Taking Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition to the Communities.

Written by Jaspreet Tuteja, Officer, Centre for Healthcare, IIM Udaipur With a vision to decentralize the health planning, the National Health Mission (NHM) proposed the creation of VHSCs (Village health and sanitation committee) at revenue villages of each block of the district in 2005. In the year 2011, Nutrition was also included within the ambit … Continue reading A Gentle Introduction to VHSNC

Written by Priyanshu K. ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) have been instrumental in managing the pandemic across the country. They carried out several responsibilities in the past year – identifying people showing symptoms of Corona, linking them to quarantine facilities or ensuring home isolation, providing them with medicines and following up on them. A report by … Continue reading Did Covid-19 ‘Other’ The ASHAs From Their Own?

Apexa Raithatha, Divya Manchanda, Nithin Ignatius, Shyamsundar Raithana and Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan The domain of primary healthcare has 2 sides, like those of a coin: many doctors speak of the wide range of conditions they see and the emergencies they manage in situations where they often do not have the luxury of investigations for support, … Continue reading What does working in primary healthcare mean? Voices of young doctors from rural southern Rajasthan.