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Here’s a story of three Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA workers)of Uttar Pradesh who defied the pandemic to help women in need
ASHA, or Accredited Social Health Activists, a fleet of volunteer female community workers, have revolutionized last-mile health care system across the complex and culturally diverse Indian landscape. Part of the National Health Mission (NHM), approximately 900,000 ASHA workers in India have significantly improved the uptake of family planning and immunization services and successfully ensured more and more women in rural India give birth in hospitals.
Health workers tasked to report Maharashtra returnees in Mandya
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ASHA, anganwadi workers on the job in K.R. Pet and Nagamangala taluks
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ASHA, anganwadi workers on the job in K.R. Pet and Nagamangala taluks
Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and anganwadi workers in K.R. Pet and Nagamangala taluks in Mandya district have been assigned a new task – to alert the health authorities on coming across new persons in the households – as a measure to curb the spread of COVID-19 since many from these two taluks work in Maharashtra, which has reported a spike in cases triggering the scare of a second wave of infection.
Children immunisation fell short by 7.2% between April 19 and Mar 20: Centre
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GHAZNI (AFGHANISTAN), Jan. 27, 2020 (Xinhua) A health worker gives polio vaccination dose to a child during a vaccination campaign in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 27, 2020. The Afghan Public Health Ministry launched a nationwide campaign . Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, March 15 : The government fell short by 7 per cent in achieving coverage of full immunisation of children between April 2019 and March 2020. The information was shared in the Parliament by Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, on Monday.