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Banjot Kaur
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New Delhi-based Health Reporter for 15 years. Currently at ‘The Wire’.
Author page: https://m.thewire.in/author/Banjot-Kaur
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New Delhi becomes a gas chamber, once again. However, Indian government continues to do flip-flop on accepting air pollution can lead to deaths — something studies carried out its own institutes have established. But in Parliament govt doesn’t shy away in rejecting them. m.thewire.in/article/heal...
Does Air Pollution Cause Deaths? Government Says ‘Yes’, Government Says 'No'
The Union government has constantly said in parliament that there is no conclusive evidence to link air pollution and deaths. However, the latest letter written by Union health secretary to states all...
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November 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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Less Than a Third of People Suffering from Diabetes Get Treatment in India, World's Diabetes Capital.

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Less Than a Third of People Suffering from Diabetes Get Treatment in India, World's Diabetes Capital
As per a Lancet study, only 27.8% and 29.3% of the entire cohort of women and men suffering from the disease in India have any treatment coverage.
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November 14, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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“It’s cruel, and it devalues the life and the health of the person”

- #ObGynSky + #ReproSky via @cnn.com

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Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law | CNN
Had Avery Davis Bell had a miscarriage in Boston, where she lived until 2020, doctors could snap into action. But because she was having a miscarriage in a hospital in Georgia, surgery had to wait.
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November 12, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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November 11, 2024 at 7:32 PM