Category: Health
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The Unani Question: Why is Bengal Falling Behind?
Bengal lags behind in Unani medical education, with just one college compared to Uttar Pradesh’s 10, Madhya Pradesh’s 4, and Maharashtra’s 5, exposing a glaring disparity in healthcare development. The Calcutta Unani Medical College and Hospital has been fighting for state intervention since 2009, yet successive governments have ignored its pleas, even withdrawing a bill…
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India’s Smallest Fighters, World’s Costliest Drug: Babies Battling a Rare Disease
Asmika, a 12-month-old baby from West Bengal, suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type-1, a rare and severe genetic disorder requiring the world’s most expensive drug, Zolgensma, priced at $2.1 million. Despite India’s National Policy for Rare Diseases, gaps in funding, accessibility, and coordination leave families like Asmika’s with limited options, relying heavily on arduous crowdfunding…
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Not the Next Pandemic: Experts Demystify the Human Metapneumovirus Scare
First identified in 2001, hMPV traces its roots back to the late 19th century, diverging from avian strains. It spreads through close contact and respiratory droplets, causing cough, fever, and shortness of breath, with complications in severe cases. Experts highlight its similarity to other seasonal viruses like RSV and influenza, debunking fears of a new…
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Waste Removed, Scars Remain: Bhopal Gas Survivors Demand Justice for 40 Years of Poison
Nearly four decades after the Bhopal disaster, toxic waste removal efforts fall short, leaving survivors exposed to contaminated resources. Environmentalists argue that relocating hazardous waste to Pithampur creates new dangers for an already polluted region. Calls for corporate accountability intensify as activists demand that Dow Chemical bear the cost of a comprehensive cleanup
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Heart of Bengal’s Healthcare: Inside the Dilemma of Disillusioned Doctors
Medical Graduates Leave ‘Sonar Bangla’: Despite their roots in Bengal, doctors reveal how lesser salary, unsafe environment, and lack of infrastructure is forcing them to leave their home state. The state’s healthcare sector faces an alarming loss of talent. While RG Kar rape and murder highlighted security issues of junior doctors, the resident doctors are…
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India is far behind in reaching the target of the mean population sodium intake by 2025
An assessed 2.2 million and 7 million cardiovascular disease deaths could be averted by 2025 and 2030 respectively if countries across the globe meet all the targets set by World Health Organization (WHO) in lessening their mean population sodium intake by 30 percent. Recently a report published by WHO says that as of October 2022,…
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Female sanitation workers in India’s cleanest city suffer from poor health
Indore: Maya Munnalal, who is about 47, gets ready every morning at 5:30 am and goes out armed with a broom to clean the Rajwada area, the main market of Indore, the largest city of Madhya Pradesh. This area of the city is a part of Ward 58 of Indore Municipal Corporation. First of all,…
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Young But Obese India
Living in a tech-savvy ready-made society, people are seeking instant solutions for every aspect of their lives. Especially for eating nowadays, they are preferring home delivery of food and drink from hotels, restaurants, cafeterias and food shops among others. They are used to have spicy, oily, palatable dishes, junk foods, and various kinds of high…
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Open letter To The Prime Minister From Public Health Experts On Why India Needs To Rethink Its Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy
Dear Shri Modi: This letter is essentially to suggest that aiming to vaccinate all the citizens against the SARS-COV-2 disease is not a sound, rational, scientific and intelligent approach for India. It is demonstrated that the entire world is in the grip of Covid-19 pandemic since the beginning of the year 2020. However, a cursory…