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]6 arrested for raping 14-year-old in Odisha
The six allegedly sexually assaulted her and then threatened her against revealing the incident to anyone.
Updated on Aug 30, 2020 08:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | Debabrata Mohanty
In Bihar, 65-yr-old had 8 kids in 18 months in govt records
Leela Devi is not the lone elderly woman to have “benefited” under the NHM scheme. Money has been deposited into and withdrawn from the accounts of more than 50 women fraudulently in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district.
Updated on Aug 21, 2020 02:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Muzaffarpur | Ajay Kr Pandey
Covid-19: 600k Asha, Anganwadi staff on 2-day strike over payments
The workers, who went on a two-day strike from Friday, have been conducting door-to-door surveys and were enlisted by the Centre for the fight against the pandemic.
Updated on Aug 08, 2020 01:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Deeksha Bhardwaj
‘Work sans masks, sanitisers’: Uttarakhand ASHA workers seek Covid allowance
Apart from working in quarantine centres, ASHA workers also ensure vaccinations, institutional deliveries of pregnant women, the surveillance work of people returning to the state among other duties.
Updated on Jul 09, 2020 06:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Suparna Roy | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi
ASHA workers in Maharashtra may get pay hike for working during Covid-19 crisis
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the ASHA workers have been assigned the task of surveillance in urban and rural areas and the state government now plans to give them an incentive for their work.
Updated on Jun 25, 2020 10:26 AM IST
Mumbai | Press Trust of India | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar
In the Covid-19 battle, Delhi turns to volunteers | HT Editorial
Use them for contact tracing and monitoring those in home isolation
Updated on Jun 22, 2020 12:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Covid-19: Focus on reproductive health
Women’s health is a vital issue. In this, reproductive health has to take precedence. Health services are not reaching them in time in many urban and rural areas. At a time when basic health services are stretched, it is quite likely that women’s health needs, both in the public system and at home, are not a priority
Updated on Jun 14, 2020 06:05 AM IST
Aarogya Setu app users cross 2 crore mark in Uttar Pradesh: Official
The principal health secretary also said a large number of migrant workers are coming from other states with ASHA workers having surveyed 7.44 lakh of them so far.
Published on May 23, 2020 07:04 PM IST
Lucknow | Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
At least 60 babies delivered in Odisha during cyclone Amphan
Bhadrak district collector Gyana Das shared the picture of the mother and her newborn twins on his official Twitter account while appreciating the services of Angawadi workers, ASHA workers and other health workers during the calamity.
Published on May 21, 2020 10:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | Debabrata Mohanty
Dr Alka Chaudhari: When she’s not treating patients, the ‘doktarni’ at Delhi’s first mohalla clinic feeds families of 35 daily-wagers
However, after speaking to the families in the area and the ASHA workers under her, she realised there was a problem.
Updated on May 02, 2020 02:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Anonna Dutt
Asha worker attacked for collecting data on Covid-19 patients in Odisha
The attack comes just days after the Centre brought in an ordinance to check the mounting attacks and protect health workers at the forefront of battle against coronavirus.
Updated on Apr 24, 2020 10:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | Debabrata Mohanty
‘Don’t want anyone to remain hungry’: Sitharaman announces Covid-19 relief package
The Finance Minister also expressed gratitude for doctors and nurses who are dealing with Covid-19 patients.
Updated on Mar 26, 2020 05:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Baby made of dough, woman tries to get govt scheme money, exposed
The woman and her husband created ruckus the hospital staff forced the woman to part way with what she was claiming to be her baby to ensure that timely treatment could be given to the baby if it was alive, the doctors said.
Updated on Aug 23, 2019 09:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/ Gwalior | HT Correspondent
In flood-hit Assam, boat clinics bring respite to many
The boat clinics in flood-hit Goroimari has become a lifeline for the people living in Morigaon where several affected by the heavy rains are also suffering from diarrhoea and fever.
Updated on Jul 23, 2019 04:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Goroimari (Assam) | Sadiq Naqvi
Free tests, medicines, separate OPD at district government hospitals in Punjab
A medical officer, staff nurse and counsellor will be deputed for these OPDs under the National Programme for Health Care of Elderly programme by the health and family welfare department.
Updated on Apr 20, 2019 10:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | Jatinder Mahal
Why India’s health system fails to spot malnourished children
The fundamental problem is structural. The anganwadi worker reports into the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) system of the women and child development (WCD) ministry, the ANM into the health ministry, and the ASHA to health (with a dotted line to WCD). With two ministries controlling three women workers, there is inadequate data sharing and weak accountability.
Updated on Jan 24, 2019 07:19 AM IST
Ashok Alexander
‘New law is the most progressive globally’
The Mental Health Care Act enshrines equality for mentally ill people with those who have physical health problems in all matters related to health care
Updated on Sep 14, 2018 10:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vikram Patel
US jury orders Monsanto to pay $289 million to cancer patient over weedkiller
The ruling is likely to have far reaching ramifications in other parts of the world including India, where glyphosate-based weedkillers are widely used.
Updated on Aug 12, 2018 07:12 AM IST
UP: A new chapter in newborn health care in villages
Scripting change: Baby care teams visit homes in remote villages of Rae Bareli, checking the health of babies with low birth weight
Published on Jul 19, 2018 03:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Political dream brings the elderly back to school in Rajasthan
The Vasundhara Raje government, through a law introduced in 2014, has made it mandatory for the candidates contesting the panchayat elections to have a certain level of school education.
Updated on Jun 05, 2018 09:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Barmer | Mukesh Mathrani