Until the Rich and Poor Alike Use the Same Public Health Services We Cannot Beat the Pandemic

Until the Rich and Poor Alike Use the Same Public Health Services We Cannot Beat the Pandemic

Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant, Sandeep Pandey | It is also important to recognize that bad sanitation and hygiene, dirty or non-functional toilets, unsatisfactory healthcare standards and other concerns we associate public services with, are not new: they have ailed the public services for long but those-who-can-pay have conveniently made an alternate parallel system where they have services they are comfortable with.

When Will We Have Equitable Access to Fruits of Development?

When Will We Have Equitable Access to Fruits of Development?

Sandeep Pandey and Kushagra Kumar | The lackadaisical attitude in our society towards pregnancy, which is important for the health of mother as well as the yet to be born child for his/her remaining life, is obvious from the number of child births which took place on trains while migrant workers were returning home on Shramik special trains during the COVID-19 crisis.