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Advisory on how to prevent Covid-19

Those who need to work to survive cannot stay home. What can they do during such times?

Posted on 02 Apr, 2020 06:50 PM

COVID-19 (novel coronavirus disease), an acute respiratory disease emerged in late 2019 and has been spreading rapidly across the globe. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It is marked by respiratory problems that are usually mild (coughing, fever) but can be severe (pneumonia, trouble breathing).

The fear is that Covid-19 would almost certainly spread within communities in India, just as it had started to do in Italy, South Korea, and Iran. (Image: Trinity Care Foundation)

Can Budget 2016-17 breathe life into the public health system?

Budget asks include the upping of health spending, passing new health policies and involving civil society among other things.

Ravi Duggal

Posted on 15 Feb, 2016 11:00 AM

Per a report by the Planning Commission, India’s burden of water borne diseases remains grossly underestimated. The improvements in access to drinking water has not been matched by a proportionate decline in deaths and illnesses from waterborne diseases.

Measuring for malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh (Source: Russell Watkins, Wikimedia Commons)

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