Category: Health

  • Chennai: Nurses Strike Movement ends in Victory

    Taking inspiration from nurse strikes in Kerala, Maharashtra and other parts of the country, nurses from leading private hospitals like Apollo, Fortis and Madras Medical Mission in Chennai went on strike on 2nd March to demand for their basic rights. After a week of uncompromising struggle, the nurses succeeded in winning all their main demands.…

  • Life of Nurses in India is a cursed one

    The following article is written by Nissar Adoor, a male nurse working in a corporate hospital in Delhi and relates to the recent upsurge in nurses protest in the mainly corporate/ private run hospitals. Inspired by the events like the Arab spring in the Middle East and Occupy Movements, nurses working in many corporate/ pvt.…

  • AMRI Tragedy: Playing with Fire

    Two incidents late last year shook the conscience of many people in West Bengal. On December 9th, 2011, major fire claimed 93 lives in the Advanced Medical Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital, Kolkata. Most of them were patients admitted to the hospital for treatment. In another incident, 173 people died after consuming spurious hooch (locally manufactured…

  • Capitalist Globalization: India in a death trap

    Down with Neo-liberalism which is impoverishing the peasantry and the urban poor! The following article is written by Kaveri Rajaram Indira, an activist and a close supporter of New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India). The article appeared in the Jan-Feb 2012 edition of Dudiyora Horaata (Workers’ Struggle). On the 1st of January 2012, Ameena Banu, a one…

  • Public health crisis in India

    During the 2011 budget, when the Indian GDP is estimated to increase by 37% from 2009-10 to 2011-12, the allocation for the health ministry for the various public health oriented national disease control and prevention programmes has gone down by 14%. The Indian ruling class are only concerned on protecting their vested interests and the…

  • Anti-Biotic Superbug Scandal: People’s Misery is Capitalists Profit

    The recent news (11th August,2010) on a study published by Lancet Infectious Diseases (“Emergence of a new antibiotic resistant mechanism in India, Pakistan and the UK: a molecular, biological and epidemiological study” by Karthikeyan K Krishnasamy et.al) on a drug resistant bacterial gene, the so called super bug, named New Delhi metallo – beta –…

  • Capitalism’s Systemic Malaise

    Beggars death in Bangalore- The death of over 28 inmates at the Beggar’s Rehabilitation Center (popularly known as Beggar’s Colony) in Bangalore and the subsequent drama that unfolded over the past two months has brought into focus the rotten state of affairs in the Karnataka state’s social welfare department. The inmates of the center were…