Attapadi: 22 infant deaths in four months due to poor nutrition and inadequate healthcare has left the tribal belt of Attapadi in Kerala devastated. The tribal belt of Attapadi in Kerala has never had it so bad.
"I was only eight months pregnant. The delivery was unexpected and at night we did not have a vehicle to go to the hospital too," said Selvi, who just her twin children at birth. Ponnamma, who also lost her child, said the authorities fail to provide healthcare to pregnant women.
"The government keeps saying that they will provide ragi and other nutrients through health centres. But till date we have not got anything. No doctor has ever turned up at our houses to check pregnant women," said Ponnamma.
"In a place like Attapadi, which is as large as the district of Alappuzha, you don't have a single gynaecologist. It clearly shows the callousness of the government towards tribals," said Ramu, an activist....
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08:04 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: More than 4,00,000 babies across South Asia die right after their birth, reveals a new study. The report also indicates that chronic malnourishment which leads to mental or physical impairment is particularly severe in the region. The report's birth day risk index shows that of the one million babies who die each year on the day they are born, almost 40 per cent of these are in India,...
11:36 AM, May 07, 2013
Nashik: In-laws of a 20-year-old pregnant woman in Nashik have been charged with murdering an unborn girl child after they allegedly stomped on her stomach and beat her, killing the two-month-old foetus, the police said on Tuesday. The incident took place in the Mhasrul locality where victim Suvarna Gaikwad was being harassed mentally and physically for dowry since her marriage to Khanderao Gaikwad in June 2012, they said. The young...
02:12 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Barmer: A shocking case of medical negligence has come to light in Rajasthan. In the absence of doctors and nurses, a sweeper attended to an infant and chopped off the child's finger in a hospital in Barmer. The sweeper was trying to remove the stitches on the child's finger. After failing to do so, he chopped it off and tossed it in the trash. The finger still can't be found....
07:47 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to women, saying they are ahead of men today while addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation in New Delhi. Calling for the need to integrate and financially empower women to achieve growth and make India a developed country, Modi said that they constitute 50 per cent of the country's population and India could become a developed nation only if the...
02:38 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to the women of the country saying women and mothers are supreme and are held in the highest regard in the country. Addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation, Modi said, "A mother's place is supreme in our culture and values. We call river Ganga our mother, India is also mother India. A mother's place and a woman's place in our...
12:57 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday urged the women of Haryana to fight against social evils like female infanticide and other crimes against them. ...
01:57 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Poor management, financial irregularities and weak implementation are plaguing India's massive state-run scheme to feed children, a government audit has found, hindering the country's efforts to fight malnutrition in almost half its child population. ...
03:40 AM, Mar 08, 2013
A 17-year-old student studying in class XI delivered a baby boy in her hostel at a government residential girls school in Rajasthan's Nagaur district. The girl delivered the baby in a bathroom of the hostel early on Tuesday. ...
11:35 PM, Mar 06, 2013
A baby girl in Mississippi who was born with HIV has been cured after very early treatment with standard HIV drugs, US researchers reported on Sunday, in a potentially ground-breaking case that could offer insights on how to eradicate HIV infection in its youngest victims. The child's story is the first account of an infant achieving a so-called functional cure, a rare event in which a person achieves remission without...
08:52 AM, Mar 04, 2013
In the third such incident within a span of three months, a newly-born baby has been stolen from the SMGS Hospital in Jammu. CCTV camera footage shows a woman taking away the child from the labour room of the hospital. ...
03:24 PM, Feb 03, 2013
A unique initiative has been undertaken by a Pune Doctor. Following the Beed female infanticide cases, Dr Ganesh Rakh of Pune's Medicare multispeciality hospital has stopped charging any fees to deliver a girl child. The birth of a girl child is celebrated in the hospital by distributing sweets and by treating the mother and child for free. Till date, the hospital has given free treatment to 135 women and their...
10:02 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Sex-selective abortion is rampant in Delhi, particularly in south Delhi, a survey by Centre for Social Research (CSR), an organisation working for women empowerment and welfare, revealed on Wednesday. "CSR took this survey in southwest Delhi where the problem is more pronounced. About 900 households were surveyed for over a year from February to December 2012. We found that most people still prefer sons than daughters, fearing dowry, security of...
12:00 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Four new-born children died in Malda Medical College and Hospital in Malda in this district headquarter town of Malda district. ...
01:26 AM, Jan 10, 2013
Srinagar: The medical superintendent of the government hospital in Baramulla, in which two infants died on Friday evening due to a power cut, along with three others, has been suspended. Sources also say criminal proceedings against them are likely. The families of the infants claim the babies died because of lack of oxygen supply during a two-hour power cut. Acting swiftly after the infants died due to alleged negligence, the...
08:40 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Baramullah: In a case of shocking apathy, power failure in a Baramulla hospital killed two infants on ventilator support on Friday evening. The family claims that the hospital officials refused to turn on the generator during a two-hour power supply cut. Residents and family members of two infants who died at a government hospital are now demanding action against the medical staff. The families claim that the medical staff voluntarily...
01:31 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Washington: Infant formula causes cellular death that may contribute to necrotizing enterocolitis, a severe intestinal condition that is often fatal and occurs most commonly in premature infants, says a new study. University of California San Diego bio-engineers, based their study on tests comparing the digestion of fresh human breast milk and nine different infant formulas. Scientists have long known that premature infants fed formula are more likely to develop necrotizing...
12:05 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Three more babies have died in Malda Medical College in West Bengal in the past 24 hours taking the toll to 27 dead since last Saturday. The state government has rushed the Chairman of Task Force of Infant Mortality to Malda. The hospital defence is that the three babies were suffering from birth asphyxia and hypothermia and were already in a critical condition. ...
02:46 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Kolkata: Three more infants have died in the past 24 hours in the Malda Medical college in West Bengal. This has taken the death toll to 22 since Saturday. The state government has rushed the Chairman of Task Force of Infant Mortality to Malda. The hospital said the three babies were suffering from birth asphyxia and hypothermia. Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare AH Khan Choudhury intervened on...
10:58 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Over a 100 infant deaths were reported in state-run hospitals in West Bengal in January this year. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who also holds the health portfolio had promised to act, but little has changed on the ground 11 months on. ...
01:36 PM, Nov 27, 2012
