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Behind deaths of Adivasi children in Balaghat: appalling vaccination levels, widespread hunger (opens the original)
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In June, one-year-old Sahil caught a fever and developed a rash all over his body. A month later, he was dead, mostly likely from a measles-malaria outbreak that ripped through Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district. Sahil’s 12-year-old sister Lamnin fell ill with similar symptoms and died a day later at their home in Bondari village. As Scroll reported in the first part of this series, at least 25 children from the Baiga and Gond tribes have died since May in this remote Adivasi habitation in Madhy
For months, Adivasi children in Madhya Pradesh kept dying. The government woke up too late (opens the original)
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Mahasingh Parte lives in the last hut in a village on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. To reach the village, Matla, one has to trek a kilometre up a hill, on muddy trails and slippery slopes. The village in Balaghat district in eastern Madhya Pradesh is surrounded by rolling hills and forests, a picture of tranquility for tourists visiting the nearby Kanha National Park. But for Parte and other members of the Baiga tribe, who live in this remote region, life is a daily struggle – w
How a bureaucrat has forced Maharashtra’s eateries and other food businesses to clean up their act (opens the original)
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On August 8, a packed auditorium in Pune rose to applaud Tukaram Mundhe. Some took videos of the bureaucrat walking up to the stage. Others shouted out compliments. The event itself was titled “Unstoppable Tukaram”. Rarely has any bureaucrat appointed Maharashtra’s food and drug administration commissioner met with such public adulation. Since Mundhe took over in May, his crackdown on unhygienic practices in the food industry in the state has won him truckloads of admirers – and inspired social
How adulterated fairness creams led to a surge of mercury poisoning cases in rural Maharashtra (opens the original)
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In January, Rushikesh Dhore visited a doctor in Maharashtra’s Akola district with a range of problems – insomnia, irritability, twitching and pain in his leg muscles. But most striking for the 25-year-old was a feeling of “tremors” running through his legs. The doctor was perplexed and advised Dhore, a resident of Goregaon village in Murtijapur, to visit a neurologist in Akola city, 50 km away. Neurologist Dr Nitin Virwani immediately knew what the problem was. He had treated similar patients a
The dark side of the booming Indian market for weight-loss drugs (opens the original)
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Saloni Khera, a social media manager in Mumbai, gained 30 kg in just six months after the Covid-19 pandemic. A combination of factors were at work. She had long Covid, a condition in which the virus leaves behind a trail of health problems. She was pre-diabetic and also had a hormonal disorder. Her attempts at losing weight through multiple diet regimens – even drinking only water for a week – had failed. “If I lost 15 kg, I gained 25 kg back,” she said. People with chronic obesity, a lifelong d
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