Healthcare

A daily dose of sunshine is vital not just for the wellbeing of your bones but also your heart. Here’s why.

Working in tandem with kirana stores, the Saathealth App has already been downloaded 85,000 times—in not just the slums of Mumbai, but also other cities like Delhi, Lucknow and Pune.

Solar-powered health centres, terrific human development indicators (HDI) and the cleanest air in India — other districts would do well to borrow a leaf from Pathanamthitta's book! #Governance #HealthFirst

The pilot experiment was conducted over Miyapur Lake on March 28, where a drone equipped with bio herbicide sprayed the liquid all over the 16-acre expanse.

Even when placed under an 18-inch mattress, these tiny monitors allow you to keep track of all vitals—heart rate, respiration rate, stress levels and sleep patterns!

"When the research was published, the government made this warning mandatory. It upset a lot of baby food companies. And today, we are saving babies because of this knowledge," says Varanasi's 91-year-old Annapurna Shukla.

If countries like China, Singapore and Thailand can offer the right to basic healthcare services, why can't India? #RightToHealthcare

What pushed the couple further was that this hamlet recorded an infant mortality rate of 150 per 1,000 babies, the highest in all of India!

“A four-month-old baby was sick with fever. The family was unable to reach the hospital—their home was on an isolated island surrounded by vast paddy fields that were under waist-deep water. The house was almost ‘floating’.”

The portable Operation Theatre, ideal for disaster prone and remote areas, can be packed into a backpack and carried by 2-3 people.