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Malnutrition in the tribal population is 1.5 times higher than the national average

Poor financial conditions, reliance on public distribution system among factors that drove change, reduced dietary diversity 

Synopsis Hesitancy has been particularly palpable in the tribal belts in many districts including Chamarajanagar and Mysuru, Raichur, Uttara Kannada and Kodagu, where misinformation, lack of trust factor and fewer Covid-19 cases are all contributing to low levels of vaccination. Public health experts who have worked closely with rural and tribal communities stress on the need for micro and community based plans to address vaccine phobia. The Karnataka government may need to step up its outreach to vaccinate the entire eligible population in the state as healthcare workers are facing resistanc...

COVID: Public Health Experts Pen Concerns About Plasma to PSA VijayRaghavan 11/05/2021 A pouch of convalescent plasma from a person who recovered from COVID-19. Photo: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters When the number of COVID-19 cases began to surge in many parts of India from late April, the Centre’s and various state government’s failure to anticipate the second wave, and the inability of the Indian people at large to withstand it without additional protections, became glaringly obvious. A shortage of oxygen and antiviral and palliative drugs soon followed. With government help out of ...

Plasma therapy for Covid ‘irrational, non-scientific’, change guidelines, experts ask govt Sravasti Dasgupta © Provided by The Print New Delhi: In an open letter addressed to the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, Dr VijayRaghavan, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), a group of 18 clinicians and public health professionals have expressed concern over the “irrational and non-scientific” use of plasma in Covid treatment. Plasma is a component of the human blood that carries antibod...