Rajasthan Healthcare System

Many patients are suffering in silence in parts of Rajasthan due to a strike by private doctors against the Right to Health Bill, claiming the execution of this legislation will create hurdles in their smooth functioning.

A pregnant woman in Rajasthan's Bharatpur was forced to deliver at the entrance of a state-run maternity hospital last week after an alleged delay in treatment. The shocking incident has prompted the state health department to order a probe after a video that captured the ordeal of the woman was shared widely on the social media.

A couple who ran a sex-determination ‘clinic’ in Punjab thought they were about to seal a good deal, until they realised they have walked into a trap. A team of Rajasthan anti-sex determination officials caught the couple while they were taking money from a ‘customer’, who the sleuths had sent as a decoy seeking to know the gender of her un...

Inspired by the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, a tribal man sold off his goat and mortgaged the ornaments of his wife to complete the work on a toilet he was building at his house in Rajasthan’s Dungarpur district. A daily wager, Kanti Lal Rot, lives with his mother, wife, children and widow of his brother, in a thatched house along Dungarpur-Ratanpur ro...

Rajasthan has an infant mortaliy rate of 47. Standing at 41, Haryana's figures are the same as of Ethiopia. Bihar stands at 42 - the same as Senegal.

Many patients are suffering in silence in parts of Rajasthan due to a strike by private doctors against the Right to Health Bill, claiming the execution of this legislation will create hurdles in their smooth functioning.

A pregnant woman in Rajasthan's Bharatpur was forced to deliver at the entrance of a state-run maternity hospital last week after an alleged delay in treatment. The shocking incident has prompted the state health department to order a probe after a video that captured the ordeal of the woman was shared widely on the social media.

A couple who ran a sex-determination ‘clinic’ in Punjab thought they were about to seal a good deal, until they realised they have walked into a trap. A team of Rajasthan anti-sex determination officials caught the couple while they were taking money from a ‘customer’, who the sleuths had sent as a decoy seeking to know the gender of her un...

Inspired by the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, a tribal man sold off his goat and mortgaged the ornaments of his wife to complete the work on a toilet he was building at his house in Rajasthan’s Dungarpur district. A daily wager, Kanti Lal Rot, lives with his mother, wife, children and widow of his brother, in a thatched house along Dungarpur-Ratanpur ro...

Rajasthan has an infant mortaliy rate of 47. Standing at 41, Haryana's figures are the same as of Ethiopia. Bihar stands at 42 - the same as Senegal.