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A basket weaver at work with her baby at her side, in Tamil Nadu. The infant mortality rate is very high for working women, particularly those in the primary sector, a large proportion of whom are labourers.-K.N. CHARY

False promises

The claim that the Unique Identification project will facilitate the delivery of basic health services is dishonest.
MOHAN RAO
Without a drastic improvement in public sector health facilities, poor people are forced to vote with their feet on the public sector. This is then used as an argument for more privatisation and more state subsidies to the private sector. Here, in a ward at the Patna Medical College and Hospital.-PTI

Health in crisis

There are fears that curative health care will be left to the private sector, while the public system will handle preventive and low-quality care.
MOHAN RAO

A voice of sanity

The NHRC's intervention in the matter of certain questionable provisions in the population policies of some States is a welcome step.
MOHAN RAO

Women at risk

Quinacrine sterilisation, a practice that defies accepted international norms, continues in India.
NALINI VISVANATHAN MOHAN RAO
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