Medical personnel face delayed salaries, harassment on job, and a crushing mental health crisis.

We compiled portraits of frontline healthcare workers’ experiences in India’s current pandemic crisis. In this installment: A 38-year-old head of operations at a private hospital in Mumbai.

We compiled portraits of frontline healthcare workers’ experiences in India’s current pandemic crisis. In this installment: A 34-year-old doctor at a private hospital in Kolkata.

Vague wording and loopholes mean tobacco products are still easy to advertise and purchase, a new report finds.

Pandemic-era demand for medical oxygen is almost four times higher than during pre-Covid19 times.

Lead, a neurotoxin that can affect children’s cognitive abilities, is found in spices, glazing on pots, old water pipes and wall paint.

Doctors effectively curtailed this outbreak with the help of new treatments and an effective vaccine.

2,500 people have been evacuated from the surrounding areas and moved into relief camps.

We need a state-backed, pan-India information center with specific guidelines that clearly delineates and demarcates real news vis-a-vis fake news.

Fear and sadness are the most dominant emotions for Indians under lockdown.

Like our foremothers, we’re resilient and strong. But we must not internalize our emotions as they did.

The UN had presented abortion as an essential healthcare service in its Covid19 Response Plan.

Abortions cannot be denied even to individuals with confirmed Covid19 infections, the WHO stated.

Isolation-induced behavioral fatigue will make us more non-compliant, but quarantine remains our only Covid19-fighting chance.

We are less likely to contract Covid19 from home-deliveries, according to a new study.