Nada India Foundation News update

Sajjid Z. Chinoy and P. Vaidyanathan Iyer recently engaged in a comprehensive discussion about the economic priorities for the new government, where Mr. Vatsyayan, an attendee, highlighted the importance of making health a national priority. The conversation focused on strategies to enhance healthcare infrastructure, promote innovation, and ensure equitable access for all citizens. Key Discussion Points: Economic Agenda and Healthcare Investments: Suneel Vatsyayan raised a crucial question about integrating good health into the national economic agenda. He stressed the need for sustainable investments in healthcare infrastructure, innovation, and access, especially in light of the socio-economic disparities worsened by the pandemic. Public vs. Private Investment: Vatsyayan noted the current trend of increasing reliance on private investment while reducing public funding in the welfare state. He questioned the type of consumer and labor force the nation aims to develop, emphasizing th...

Ri ght to life under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution has been liberally interpreted to mean the right to live with dignity and decency. Take your Rights and Do your Duties!  Jyotsna Roy  When I was a child I took two blotters from my Grandfather’s table in the district hospital. Blotters were used for drying ink from fountain pens. These pieces were about 4” by 6” with the rough pink blotting paper on one side and a picture on the other.  Generally these were distributed as IEC material for products being promoted. So, one blotter had the picture of a black pair of lungs and the other had an almost blue heart. I asked my Grandfather questions while trying to understand the pictures.  He told me that the tree kind of picture was a pair of lungs that has numerous small pockets in which old breath is cleaned by oxygen. How did the black tar get into the lungs? I asked. I knew tar because the road inside the hospital was being coated with Coal tar to make access ea...

  Approximately 22% college students skip their breakfast and 80% habitually take snacks at least once a day.  *Dr. Atul Pratap Singh India needs solutions to several challenges that have damaged overall health and wellbeing of the people. These challenges are related to health, harmful effects of unhealthy food advertisements and eating habits, impurity of air, water and soil and vulnerability of regions to climate change. Human health and climate change should be an integral part of sustainability practices in the universities and college campuses as the youth may become the ambassador of change and development. Hence, we need to focus towards incorporating health, specifically health related to eating habits and eco-friendly environment into the sustainability movement taking place in higher educational institutions.  It is expected that universities and college will take initiatives, become front liners and set the goals for environmental sustainability to launch ...

.....Health is not simply a medical issue, but socially and culturally embedded with major economic implications. She emphasized the significant impact of gender on health – an element that had not yet featured centrally enough in GAP discussions.... Jyotsna Roy Patient  Champion, Nada India     “Health is a hugely gendered question, which we have not talked about nearly enough. I urge the GAP  (Global Action Plan) and all of its accelerators to adequately account for the impact of gender on health.” Jyotsna Roy Patient  Champion, Nada India Foundation,  As first panelist, Ms Jyotsna Roy, spoke of understanding and overcoming bottlenecks and challenges in access from the perspective of both a patient and a practitioner. She began by recognizing that health is not simply a medical issue, but socially and culturally embedded with major economic implications. She emphasized the significant impact of gender on health – an element that had not yet f...

Sober Recovery Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (SRTRC) is a secular, non- government, non-profit agency; providing counselling, support and treatment to the victims of addiction and HIV/AIDS in Nepal. SRTRC had two separate facilities for male and female clients. SRTRC along with Nada India organized the two day NADA Acudetox Ear Acupuncture Training Workshop from the 23-24 March, 2017. This program saw the participation of more than two dozon  Peer led drug recovery centers from across Kathmandu. It proved very beneficial and will go a long way in cultivating better and efficient detoxification treatments for victims of addiction in the country. Nada India Foundation works towards promoting inclusive non-pharmacological approaches and methods like Acudetox, peer counseling for protection and recovery. It also advocates for balanced and healthy public policies to prevent, control non-communicable diseases and drug free life style.Nada India strengthens the prevention and ...

The right to health is a fundamental right and not a favour doled out by successive governments at the Centre and the state. With elections being held in the five states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur this year, it’s time people used their vote to demand their right to health. A déjà vu moment from Odisha this week once again put the spotlight on the unacceptable gaps in India’s public health delivery. Gati Dhibar carried his dead five-year-old daughter Sumi on his shoulder for 15 km from the Palahada Community Health Centre (CHC) in the Angul district in Odisha to his village for cremation after he was couldn’t get a hearse at the hospital. Too poor to pay for transport, Dhibar’s plight echoes two similar incidents in Odisha last year – one in Malkangiri district where a man walked six km with his seven-year-old daughter’s body after the ambulance taking them to the hospital left them midway after learning that the girl had died, and the other in the Kala...