The Suno India Show

Suno India

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May 05, 2020

Stigma and fear hurting health workers and patients alike- In life and in death

On April 22, The Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 was amended to make attacks on doctors a non-bailable cognizable offence. Along with imprisonment and fine, the case will be fast-tracked so that the final judgmen...

20 mins

Apr 26, 2020

Inching from hunger to starvation

Nearly 7 lakh households, mostly BPL families, don’t have ration cards in Jharkhand. The Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiaries list hasn’t been updated for over 5 years in the State. Despite Jharkhand...

25 mins

Apr 24, 2020

COVID-19 Fiasco - Was scientific advice given back in February ignored by the centre?

In this second part of the investigation series reported by Nitin Sethi and Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava of The Reporters’ Collective in association with Article14, it has come to light that Dr Vinod K Paul had al...

19 mins

Apr 23, 2020

COVID-19 Fiasco - Did the Indian government know that lockdown wasn't an effective strategy against COVID-19?

In January, the world was informed by WHO of a novel coronavirus which had begun to spread rapidly in Wuhan, China. The novel coronavirus was previously unheard of and very little was known about it. People wer...

25 mins

Apr 21, 2020

How will COVID-19 transform Global Health?

Last week US President Donald Trump announced the US is cutting its funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) – a decision that will have major implications for the global health response to the coronaviru...

50 mins

Apr 13, 2020

Abrupt COVID-19 lockdown leaves fishermen in lurch, battling for their livelihood

After the Indian government announced lockdown from March 25th, 2020, trouble brewed for the fishermen community in India. The deep-sea fishermen, who came back in different intervals, unaware of the lockdown d...

23 mins

Apr 11, 2020

India’s frontline workers are left unprotected & untrained against COVID-19

In the race to control the COVID-19, ASHA workers have been deployed to go into their community, identity migrants, and ensure they remain quarantined and follow social distancing norms. But ASHA workers themse...

24 mins

Apr 10, 2020

The plight of garment industry migrant workers in Karnataka

There are two stories playing out in India right now. The stories of those who have the luxury of working from home and those who are walking miles to reach home. For the migrant workers and daily wage earners,...

25 mins

Apr 09, 2020

Migrant workers facing humanitarian crisis as lockdown makes them lose livelihood & food security

On 24th March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a complete nationwide lockdown till 14th April. Due to the increase in the number of confirmed positive cases and the death toll in India, the Central govern...

41 mins

Apr 01, 2020

Countering COVID-19 - How is Tamil Nadu tackling it?

Over the years, Tamil Nadu has been known for public health models that have been successful in providing quality health services at economical rates especially to the rural poor. So during a pandemic like this...

27 mins