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The Jana Arogya Andolana Karnataka’s (JAAK) “Karnataka State Health Policy Brief” is a short paper that conveys urgent health policy concerns in the state and demands courses of action to resolve them. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 May 2008 )
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Mental healthcare speaks an idiom unfamiliar to patients. A major conference calls for a radical rethink, reports DR RAKHAL GAITONDE. THERE ARE three types of visitors to Kovalam, a bustling village about 12 kilometres from Mahabalipuram on the East Coast Road towards Chennai. Schoolchildren from the surrounding villages are the noisiest lot, followed by the tourists and the scores of people coming to visit the local dargah that is famous for its faith healers. The setting couldn’t have been more appropriate for the recently held conference ‘Mental Health at the Margins’, organised by The Banyan, a local NGO that works with the homeless mentally ill, in collaboration with the University College of London. The conference had the overall objective of evolving “a broad definition and understanding of theory and practice related to mental health and marginality from both Western and South Asian perspective.” |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 May 2008 )
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Given the poor conditions of the Karnataka state health services and Primary Health Centers (PHCs), Jana Arogya Andolana Karnataka (JAAK) has been trying to make primary health care available to people. This report gives an overview of JAAK activitvities since 2006. Download the entire report |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 November 2008 )
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Worse is happening to medical ethics than a 15-year-old being allowed to operate. Doctors and the pharma industry are flagrantly violating patients’ rights RAKHAL GAITONDE  | RAKHAL GAITONDE |
The recent widely reported case in Tamil Nadu of a 15-year-old boy performing a caesarean section under the “guidance” of his doctor parents in pursuit of an entry into the Guinness Book of Records is a sign of the increasing disregard of patients’ rights by the medical profession. While the case seems to suggest a pathological kind of exhibitionism, which in itself is an extreme case and probably a rarity, it also reflects the callous attitude of doctors and the asymmetric power equation that exists between them and their patients. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 14 December 2007 )
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Based on the Report of the Task Force on Health & Family Welfare, April 2001 and amended as per the Proceedings of the Workshop organized by the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Services, Government of Karnataka on October 4, 2001 and subsequent meetings held under the Chairmanship of the Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, on 20-9-2002, 13-12-2002 and 09-01-2003. Download the report here (pdf)
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 July 2007 )
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