Nurturing Nurses: Building grassroots leadership at Sangwari
The room was quite simple. Mattresses were laid out. A few fans did their best to hold off the heat. Not perfect, but enough.We added …
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The Power of presence : Stories from the field
The sun was shining brightly that day. As I walked in, I felt grateful for the sunshine in my life. Not just the one outside, …
Where Pain Meets Dignity: Success Stories from the Edges of the Healthcare Map
An experiential blog by Shilpa Khanna and Chetanya Malik. Read more at – https://nivarana.org/reality-check/where-pain-meets-dignity-success-stories-from-the-edges-of-the-healthcare-map
Caste is a determinant of survivorship in Cancer patients in India
Anil, Nandini, Mamta, Ajay and Shekhar (names changed) were all similar-grade osteosarcomas of the distal femur, treated by identical neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery and …
Societal Hate is Not an Emotion but a Public Health Crisis
In October 2021, a video surfaced in India which showed a man stomping the body of a Muslim migrant during an eviction drive in the …
Lean diabetes: Cellular Hunger amid surfeit of food
A 35-year-old lady, SB, weighing all 25 kgs and a Body mass index of around 12 walked into our outpatient clinic in a remote forest …
Suicidality in rural India as a measure of social distress
R. P. was 46 years old when he tragically took his own life, hanging himself from a tree using a bed sheet he had taken …
A journey towards mental health…
It was a Tuesday clinic at Kuniya in the month of July and the patients were pouring. The village, Kuniya is situated near Narmadapur, which …
It takes a village to cure a patient with TB
In one of the very first visits to village Matringa in September 2021, a village on the top of Putka-Devpahari mountains approx 75 km away …
Choosing Allyship over Saviourship !
Dear readers, I am Priyansh Nathani, a medical graduate with a passion for global health and surgery, resource-limited settings, and equity. When I am not …