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Can new-age technology transform healthcare?

by Piyush Mehra |Jul 9, 2019

Technology is here to stay, and the public health system would be well-served to take advantage.

Several Indians, even pregnant women, move frequently making it difficult to ensure delivery of end-to-end care during the 1000-day period from pregnancy till the child turns two.

Moving target - Migration and maternal health

by Piyush Mehra |May 9, 2019

Migration brings along with it, numerous struggles. Migrants lose various social entitlements, including PDS, due to registration at home location. Maternal and newborn care is too important to be opt...

Let data collected from the field go back to the field as insight

Grassroots data - No one-way street

by Piyush Mehra |Mar 28, 2019

It is time for the Government to take a leaf out of the FMCG sector's book and upskill frontline workers to use data

Diarrhoea: Lessons from Bangladesh

by Piyush Mehra |Mar 1, 2019

Diarrhoea in children is caused by viral illnesses, notably rotavirus which accounts for 45% of diarrhoea cases.

Immunization at scale - An Indian success story

by Piyush Mehra |Jan 30, 2019

In 2017, the Prime Minister Modi made a bold call for achievement of 90% immunization coverage for seven preventable diseases by 2018 itself

As per the National Family Health Survey - 4, only 30.3% (Urban - 40.8%, rural - 25.9%) of pregnant women in India consume iron folic acid for 100 days.

Anaemia: Cast-iron solution

by Piyush Mehra |Dec 20, 2018

In fact, anaemia causes 20% of maternal deaths in India. It is also an associated cause in 50% of maternal deaths.

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Children are dying: Preventive health needs your attention

by Piyush Mehra |Nov 4, 2018

According to government data from 2016, India's under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) i.e. children per 1000, dying before age five, is 39. That is, nearly a million children in India die each year before...

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Free, not freely used - A public health miracle

by Piyush Mehra |Sep 29, 2018

In spite of its easy accessibility and unquestioned value, breastfeeding coverage remains poor. In India, 58.4% children under three, are not breastfed in their first hour after birth according to...

Cut the flab: Time for India to acknowledge adverse effects of obesity before it is too late

by Piyush Mehra |Aug 21, 2018

According to a study published in 2017 by the New England Journal of Medicine, India has 14.4 million obese children - to put this in perspective this is greater than the population of ten Indian ...

I quit a corporate job to work with an NGO. And, this is how it feels

by Piyush Mehra |May 3, 2018

What does it mean to transition from the private sector to a non-profit?