Public health/Sanitation or Environmental engineering – Need for India and the way forward
Expanding the scope of public health/environmental engineering science becomes pivotal in India as we confront the public health challenges emerging o…
Health
The India hypertension control initiative (IHCI) – Need and its important discovery
A project called the India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) finds that nearly 23% out of 2.1 million Indians have uncontrolled blood pressure.
Seaweeds – From health benefits to climate change mitigation
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised developing the blue economy in coastal states and asked stakeholders to re-focus on seaweed farming and …
Civil Registration System Report of 2020 and its significance
India has released recently the data on births and deaths registered in 2020 in the Civil Registration System (CRS) report of 2020 at least a month be…
Undernutrition and the TB risk
The historical importance of good nutrition was ignored by the modern therapist who tried to control TB initially with streptomycin injection, isoniaz…
India’s waste management system – Issues and way forward
For many years now India has been working, without much success, to ensure that our rivers are not polluted; that the sewage of our cities is treated …
Covid-19, Poverty and Income Inequality of India
There are signs that the Covid pandemic has not followed the usual script – of the poor bearing the brunt of the pain.
Covid Lessons for TB
It’s time we acknowledge the magnitude of the TB disease and work harder at offering individuals equitable healthcare access and resources that the …
A blow to equitable access to essential medicines
Context Status of the proposal tabled by India and South Africa in the WTO At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020 and…
