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January 15, 2021 India’s mass immunisation plan for Covid-19 hinges on some of the lowest-paid workers in its healthcare system. The first phase of the vaccine rollout, which begins on Jan. 16 and will cover healthcare and frontline workers, and will largely depend on trained vaccinators and supervisors. But once the vaccine rollout is opened out for the entire population, local healthcare mechanisms, especially those that depend on auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs), and accredited social health activists (or Asha workers) will be crucial. Asha workers (an acronym that translates as “hope�...

Travails of ASHA Workers During COVID-19 Call for Renewed Focus on Public Health ASHA workers and other community healthcare workers have experienced extra working hours, loss of pay and social apathy during the pandemic. ASHA workers interacting during a meeting at an urban primary health centre in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: Jignesh Mistry Health12/Jan/2021 Walking into 2021, if there was one positive to be identified with the large-scale outbreak of a pandemic in 2020 in India, and the rest of the developing world, it would have been this: a primary focus given by most governments and...

: Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 6:50 PM IST Mira Bhayandar: MBMC finds 224 tuberculosis and 12 leprosy cases in fresh survey amid COVID-19 pandemic FPJ Correspondent The health department of the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) under the leadership of civic chief Dr Vijay Rathod has detected a total of 224 and 12 patients suffering from tuberculosis (TB) and leprosy respectively, in a fresh survey which was conducted in two phases from 1 to 31 December, 2020. The MBMC had set up a target to cover a population of around 3.15 lakh, mainly from the 35 slum clusters, densely-populated p...

‘We want an India that is prosperous and resembles those nations whose people have the most freedoms’ ‘We want an India that is prosperous and resembles those nations whose people have the most freedoms’ January 09, 2021 16:30 IST Updated: January 09, 2021 16:30 IST Updated: January 10, 2021 07:12 IST As Hindutva majoritarianism pushes ahead, the need for individual participation in everyday activism becomes more urgent, argues columnist and translator Aakar Patel in his new book. An excerpt below Share Article A student protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in Guwahat...