‘We’ve set up palliative care centres in eight districts’
Telangana has become a frontrunner in State-supported cancer treatment by opening palliative care centres in eight districts in partnership with the Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society since 2017. Earlier, in 2007, the government-run MNJ Cancer Institute partnered Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration, a Canadian NGO, to set up a palliative
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Giving nurses a better deal
Holding the Joyee Award, nurse Melina Rumba Lama, born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, spoke frankly about the ground realities of nursing. With over 12 years in the profession, she admitted with a laugh she rarely has time for herself. She moves back and forth between being a nurse at
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Low-cost clinics built on community trust
Medical help a few huts away was unthinkable in remote tribal villages of South Rajasthan. People here migrate to cities and return with silicosis and TB (tuberculosis). There’s malnutrition, maternal and child ill health, cancer and other illnesses villagers grapple with. They used to turn to quacks or travel to
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Getting down to farming
Every week two or three teams of curious schoolchildren turn up at Deesan Farms, in Chittoor taluk of Palakkad district, to learn about farming. They get their hands dirty too. They dig, weed, plant, water and apply mulch. They visit the dairy farm and study the value-added unit which makes
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Books go far and wide the Moosa way in Arunachal
Libraries and bookshops are falling apart in big cities, but in Arunachal Pradesh a voluntary effort is spiritedly spreading the joy of reading among young people, reaching homes and government schools across the largely rural state. Some 10,000 books are in circulation through a network of small community-run libraries and
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Diagnosis matters: Cancer in thumb almost killed him
THERE are nine fingers that SC has now. The thumb of his right hand was removed to save him from sarcoma, a form of cancer that affects joints and tissues. Amputation is required to remove the affected part and save the rest of the body. In SC’s case, it was
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