US President has also questioned existing childhood vaccine protocols, calling for delays in administration of vaccines like the hepatitis B shot, which is currently given to newborns.
Last year, UP govt decided to offer e-Rupee vouchers worth Rs 300 to pregnant women for ultrasound in pvt diagnostic centres. This year's revision in rates has come under Centre's lens.
Bench led by CJI has used term 'pregnant persons' in judgment & explained why. Last year, CJI had stoked controversy by observing that there was no absolute concept of man or woman.
Pan-India, C-section increasingly becoming an elective surgery rather than one driven by medical necessity. A state govt pilot project, which has kicked off in Tenali, aims to change this.
Women brilliant in academics and jobs are forced to sit at home after giving birth. So, 30-yr-old Sankari from Chennai created a platform that provides jobs to women paying 'motherhood penalty'.
Deepika Padukone’s pregnant character in Jawan gets five-year relief from hanging. In real life, a judge told Shabnam Ali: 'You are also a mother. But you didn't show any mercy.’
Many Indian hospitals don't have in-house physiotherapists or dieticians & most new mothers pay little attention to themselves. But there's a solution.
UNICEF and Assam govt carried out a pilot project in some districts. The main objective was to understand the critical gaps in the state's sub-centres and ANMs.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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