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PHC puts Noolpuzha on the map, has everyone on board
Umesh Anand, Noolpuzha
IT is a cluster of dwellings in the middle of thriving forests in Kerala’s Wayanad district. A sprinkling of families ...
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Time to put the basics of public health in place again
Rita and Umesh Anand
CHANCES are that you are wondering what the picture above is all about. Believe us, it is of a cancer ...
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PHCs were given the role of gatekeepers in the system
Alexander Thomas
When India gained independence in 1947, its vision for public health was bold and inclusive. At the heart of it ...
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Tech provides access equality and lowers cost of screening
R.A. Mashelkar and Sushil Borde
Since Independence, India has made remarkable progress in health, conquering plague, reducing maternal mortality, and extending life expectancy. Our multi-tiered ...
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A seamless system is the big learning from Ballabgarh
Anand Krishnan
In 1960, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi decided to set up a Primary Health ...
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‘In community dreaming we found the answers we were looking for’
John Oommen
My wife, Mercy, and I are originally from Kerala. We grew up in Tamil Nadu, trained in Community Health and ...
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In Kerala, young doctors have the panchayats on their side
Rajeev Sadanandan
It is often forgotten that, as late as the 1930s, Kerala suffered from a gamut of infectious diseases such as ...
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For better nutrition, train and empower frontline workers
Soumya Swaminathan and Drishti Sharma
By 11 am Mala is speaking to a pregnant woman and her family, advising them on iron-rich foods and the ...
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Experts, not companies, should be deciding nutrition policies
Arun Gupta
In 2013, I came across a paper published in The Lancet, 'Profits and Pandemics', which profoundly impacted my understanding of ...
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‘I realized Adivasis can do many interventions themselves’
Rajkumar Ramasamy
It was a depressingly cold, wet night in Nalloorkadu, a remote Adivasi village in the lower Kodaikanal hills, accessible only ...
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Tech for the PHC: Predicting outbreaks to supply logistics
Kiran Karnik
The well-being of a nation is best indicated by the health of its people. The size of the economy (GDP) ...
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‘The poor have the most complicated illnesses’
Deepak Singh
In 2014, Ashita, my wife, and I moved to the Chinchpada Christian Hospital in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra with our ...
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Privacy is important for rural women seeking counselling
Poonam Muttreja
India’s efforts to integrate reproductive health into Primary Health Centres (PHCs) are crucial. High-fertility states like Uttar Pradesh (UP) underline ...
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‘Care delivered by local nurses has been transformative’
Pavitra Mohan & Sanjana B. Mohan
In southern Rajasthan, faced with dwindling land sizes and disappearing forests, many young tribal men would migrate to cities such ...
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The PHC should be the first to spot signs of an outbreak
Chandrakant Lahariya
STRONGER primary healthcare is the foundation for early detection of the emergence of a disease and for disease prevention. With ...
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