Health

Spike in COVID-19 cases puts the spotlight back on role of RWAs in strategising for the pandemic by monitoring movement of residents

Do you have medicines that you no longer need? Donate unused medicines and help those who may be finding it unaffordable these days.

With walk-ins, only those who stay around the centers will be at an advantage, as opposed to the privileged from neighbouring districts.

About 20,000 transpeople were vaccinated out of 4.87 lakh people. The community has a long way to go before it feels safe in a pandemic hit country. 

In the second wave more people are going through a lot of grief and a sense of hopelessness, as the coronavirus crisis has been going on for longer than expected.

It is critical to not only increase awareness about the power of counseling and psychological support and destigmatise mental health, but also to extend such facilities to the most marginalised in our cities.

Gopal Gupta, a vegetable vendor in Kalyan who tested Covid positive in March, spent nearly Rs 5 lakhs on private healthcare and still lost him later in a public hospital.

Chaos reigns outside a state-run hospital in rural Maharashtra, with families – many from Adivasi communities – seeking beds or grieving a loss in a district ill-equipped to handle COVID19.

Because of the shortage of medical-grade oxygen supply and high demands across India, a IITB team decided to work on a design which allows patients to breathe in unused exhaled oxygen, filtered to remove carbon dioxide.

Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) have been the world’s worst-affected minority during the current pandemic. This Mumbai group is helping them.

If you are in Mumbai and feel ill, this will help you decide what to do

Murad Banaji, a mathematician at Middlesex University, London has been looking at Mumbai’s Covid data. In an exclusive interview, he shares his calculations for the ‘second wave’.