Public Health Services

STATEMENT ON NATIONAL HEALTH ACTION DAY – MAY10-2021

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STATEMENT ON NATIONAL HEALTH ACTION DAY BY JSA Governments, fulfill obligations to protect peoples health and lives – NOW! Act urgently to ensure rights to healthcare, containment and vaccination for all! Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), India’s national network of civil society organizations and people’s movements working for health rights, demands that Central and State governments must …

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JSA Statement on the High-Level Group on Health constituted by the Finance Commission

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Jan Swasthya Abhiyan lodges a strong protest against the constitution of ‘High-Level Group on Health’ and urges the government to revoke this committee. Health is an important public policy matter and any committee constituted to frame policies or provide recommendations related to it should be representative of all interests and sections in the society. The finance …

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Let us not forget the children of Gorakhpur while celebrating 7 decades of Independence

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Seventy years of independence, in normal circumstances, should call for celebrations across the nation. Unfortunately these are not normal times. For once we hoped that even this government, hard wired to proclaim its nonexistent ‘achievements’ in strident tones accompanied by incessant jingoist chest thumping, would have considered shedding a few tears for the children of …

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National Health Policy 2017: Reactions

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The government of India announced the new National Health Policy 2017 after a draft was in circulation for over 18 months. The policy can be downloaded here and the  situation analysis here. There have been several reactions to the new policy that have been contributed to by JSA members and associated friends which have been …

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