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6 arrested for raping 14-year-old in Odisha
By Debabrata Mohanty | Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar
UPDATED ON AUG 30, 2020 08:12 AM IST
The six allegedly sexually assaulted her and then threatened her against revealing the incident to anyone.
In Bihar, 65-yr-old had 8 kids in 18 months in govt records
By Ajay Kr Pandey | Hindustan Times, Muzaffarpur
UPDATED ON AUG 21, 2020 02:46 PM IST
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 Money has been deposited into and withdrawn from the accounts of more than 50 women fraudulently in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district.
Covid-19: 600k Asha, Anganwadi staff on 2-day strike over payments
By Deeksha Bhardwaj | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 08, 2020 01:24 AM IST
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.
‘Work sans masks, sanitisers’: Uttarakhand ASHA workers seek Covid allowance
By Suparna Roy | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi | Hindustan Times, Dehradun
UPDATED ON JUL 09, 2020 06:18 PM IST
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.
ASHA workers in Maharashtra may get pay hike for working during Covid-19 crisis
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar | Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUN 25, 2020 10:26 AM IST
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.
In the Covid-19 battle, Delhi turns to volunteers | HT Editorial
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON JUN 22, 2020 12:16 AM IST
Use them for contact tracing and monitoring those in home isolation
Covid-19: Focus on reproductive health
UPDATED ON JUN 14, 2020 06:05 AM IST
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
Aarogya Setu app users cross 2 crore mark in Uttar Pradesh: Official
By Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi | Lucknow
PUBLISHED ON MAY 23, 2020 07:04 PM IST
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.
At least 60 babies delivered in Odisha during cyclone Amphan
By Debabrata Mohanty | Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar
PUBLISHED ON MAY 21, 2020 10:13 PM IST
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.
Dr Alka Chaudhari: When she’s not treating patients, the ‘doktarni’ at Delhi’s first mohalla clinic feeds families of 35 daily-wagers
By Anonna Dutt | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 02, 2020 02:50 AM IST
However, after speaking to the families in the area and the ASHA workers under her, she realised there was a problem.
Asha worker attacked for collecting data on Covid-19 patients in Odisha
By Debabrata Mohanty | Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar
UPDATED ON APR 24, 2020 10:04 PM IST
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.
‘Don’t want anyone to remain hungry’: Sitharaman announces Covid-19 relief package
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 26, 2020 05:52 PM IST
The Finance Minister also expressed gratitude for doctors and nurses who are dealing with Covid-19 patients.
Baby made of dough, woman tries to get govt scheme money, exposed
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Bhopal/ Gwalior
UPDATED ON AUG 23, 2019 09:25 PM IST
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.
In flood-hit Assam, boat clinics bring respite to many
By Sadiq Naqvi | Hindustan Times, Goroimari (Assam)
UPDATED ON JUL 23, 2019 04:25 PM IST
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.
Free tests, medicines, separate OPD at district government hospitals in Punjab
By Jatinder Mahal | Hindustan Times, Jalandhar
UPDATED ON APR 20, 2019 10:18 PM IST
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.
Why India’s health system fails to spot malnourished children
By Ashok Alexander
UPDATED ON JAN 24, 2019 07:19 AM IST
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.
‘New law is the most progressive globally’
By Vikram Patel | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 14, 2018 10:24 AM IST
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
US jury orders Monsanto to pay $289 million to cancer patient over weedkiller
UPDATED ON AUG 12, 2018 07:12 AM IST
The ruling is likely to have far reaching ramifications in other parts of the world including India, where glyphosate-based weedkillers are widely used.
UP: A new chapter in newborn health care in villages
By Gaurav Saigal | Hindustan Times, Lucknow, Lucknow
PUBLISHED ON JUL 19, 2018 03:49 PM IST
Scripting change: Baby care teams visit homes in remote villages of Rae Bareli, checking the health of babies with low birth weight
Political dream brings the elderly back to school in Rajasthan
By Mukesh Mathrani | Hindustan Times, Barmer
UPDATED ON JUN 05, 2018 09:46 PM IST
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.