Coronavirus

In this interview with Dr Ravi Shekhar Jha, Head of Department and Senior Consultant - Pulmonology, Fortis Escorts Hospital, Faridabad, he answers questions about the link between diabetes and COVID-19.

Join ‘To India’s Children’ -- a campaign as part of which The Better India is working with various NGOs across India to give children access to education, nutrition, shelter, support and more.

Ramaa's Kitchen, started in Chennai, is a service that provides nutritious homemade meals to COVID-19 patients and also makes appalam, vadams and papads.

Uttar Pradesh's Shriti Pandey has constructed two COVID care centres on the outskirts of Patna and Jalandhar, Punjab using stubble. These buildings are inherently thermally insulated and trap carbon dioxide and heat.

Dr Shibal Bhartiya, a senior consultant at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, shares a 'Do This Now' list for those living alone during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mumbai-based Rouble Nagi Art Foundation (RNAF) has converted their balwadis, or daycares, into covid-care centres to help parents find a place to keep their uninfected children, free of cost.

While the medical community continues to be divided on the issue of plasma therapy while treating COVID-19 patients, here's what these four doctors have to say.

Vadodara-based Cosara, helmed by six women, has been making RT-PCR tests amid the COVID-19 pandemic since April 2020, to ensure timely detection of the disease.

Rozy Saldhana (51), a resident of Mumbai, was put on dialysis due to kidney failure five years ago. Today, even as she fights for her life, she spared her oxygen cylinder and sold her jewellery to help others ailing from the coronavirus.

Vishal Singh, who owns a chain of private schools in Delhi-NCR, couldn't find a hospital bed or oxygen for his father suffering from COVID-19 in Gurugram. Frustrated at the state of affairs, he decided to set up a care facility at the Sahara Grace residential complex. Here's how.