The Anaemic Women Of India: An Indictment Of Our Failed Polity And An Uncaring Society
Introduction According to the Global Nutrition report, 2017, 51% of Indian Women (aged between 15 and 48 years) are anaemic. India has the largest number of anaemic women in the world. Even Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia have reduced their percentage of anaemic women significantly. Women with less than 12 grams/deciliter …
Combating TB In India: Why We Lead in the Position Of Maximum People Infected In The World
The recently released global TB report 2017 has stated that India leads in the number of people afflicted with the deadly disease, that is TB. In the year 2016, about 27.9 lakh people in India were affected with the disease and about 4.23 lakh of them were killed as a …
Organ Donation In India: A Clash Between Religious Beliefs And Life-Saving Acts
According to reports, India, with its population of 1.3 billion has an unbelievable shortage of organ donors, when the demand is huge. It’s mostly due to the kith and kin of the dying person, they are unwilling to donate their relative’s organs due to false religious beliefs since they fail …
Awaiting Justice: Corruption of Money or Merely Murder of Ethical Values?
On one side, the well-known hospital brand of medical science denied all the rumours and claimed all the standard protocols were followed, but on the other side parents lost a little family member and look forward to suing the hospital in the court. Yes, you read that right, parents from …
Drugs: Taking A Toll On Children’s Health, Wealth, And Education
Small children of schools and colleges caught using drugs and involved in drug mafia in the state of Telangana. Drugs: The Life Takers Narcotics are the most powerful drugs known to man. While these drugs are invaluable in the medical field they are also highly addictive. Long-term use of these …
How Clean is the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Introduction “A clean India would be the best tribute India could pay to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150 birth anniversary in 2019,” was the statement given by Mr. Narendra Modi on the launch of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on 2nd October 2014. Three years into the Abhiyan and as many as …
Is Suicide An Epidemic Or A Weapon?
Introduction There was a time when students attempted suicides for reasons like depression, anxiety or peer pressure but today, they use them to fight the government or to take their stand. The suicide threat by a blind student Suresh from Karnataka had surprised the MCI and goaded them to reconsider his …
Live Life Then Give Life: Organ Donation
Introduction Organ donation is the process of donating organs or biological tissue to a living recipient who is in need of a transplant. Vital organs like the heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, and pancreas can be donated only in the case of ‘brain death’. However other tissues like corneas, heart …
Stigma Surrounding Depression: Padukone Speaks Up About Her Experiences
Speaking at the India Economic Summit, actress Deepika Padukone has stated that her experiences with depression in the past have always left a fear of relapse in her. The actor opened up about her battle with depression in the beginning of 2015. It was a friend’s suicide along with her …
Rohingya Muslims: Illegal Entry Into India, Supreme Court to Take a Call
The Rohingya crisis and their illegal entry into India and the decision taken by Indian Government and Supreme court on the Refugees. What Is The Rohingya Crisis? Due to military breakdown and renewed violence in Myanmar, nearly 400,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh and other countries. Thousands of them have …