Chhattisgarh – Jan Swasthya Abhiyan

Chhattisgarh State Convention on Right to Health

Chhattisgarh, Uncategorized / By phmindia_jsa

A state convention on ‘Right to Health’ was held in Gass Memorial Raipur on 23rd March 2018. The program was organised under the umbrella of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and saw participation from organisations working on health, Adivasi and Dalit sangathans, research organisations, legal-aid organisations, trade unions, patients’ rights groups and other community based organisations. Nearly …

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Bilaspur Sterilisation Tragedy: A stock taking report

Chhattisgarh, Gender and Health / By phmindia_jsa

On 8th November 2014 a government Laparascopic Tubal Ligation (LTT) sterilisation ‘camp’ held in a private abandoned hospital in Takhatpur block in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, led to the death of thirteen women while several other women experienced serious medical complications. One year after the tragedy groups working in Chhattisgarh on health, women and legal rights, take stock …

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Chhattisgarh’s experiment with cash transfers for food rations has been a disaster

Chhattisgarh / By phmindia_jsa

During a pilot project in direct benefits transfers, a fifth of the beneficiary households never received any money, and among those who did 70% got it after much delay, writes Sulakshana Nandi. Read the report in Scroll.in