Jan Swasthya Abhiyan

A collaborative workshop on 'Community Action on Nutrition' was organized by the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), Gujarat and Deepak Foundation. The workshop was the second of its kind to be held in the city.

MP budget has missed the immediate need to strengthen public health services in the state, according to assessment by NGO Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) in a press release on Thursday.

At a time when Gujarat is being touted as a medical tourism hub, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has received 115 complaints related to healthcare services from Gujarat in the past 18 months.

The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), a network of organizations working on public health issues, has written an open letter to Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan expressing concern regarding recent media reports on health sector corruption and asked the government to declare all payments of kick-backs and commissions at every level as illegal.

The two-day statelevel consultation of health rights activists on proposed ‘Right to Healthcare’ Act, which concluded here on Thursday, has demanded implementation of the Act as soon as possible.

It seems that the maternal and child health (MCH) care in Gujarat is slipping under the leadership of first woman chief minister of the state, Anandiben Patel, who took charge of the state in May 2014.

Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, a NGO, today started a campaign against the proposed move of the government to outsource diagnostic centres at 379 public health facilities in the state. A public meeting was also held to show discontent with the decision.

Health minister Ramdhani Singh on Thursday expressed concern over monopoly and malpractices of private drugs manufacturers in ensuring healthy life to common man and said the state government will seriously consider providing free medicines to all in effective manner.

Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) expressed concern and shock at the verdict of the Delhi High Court lifting the ban on 344 Fixed Dose Combinations (FDCs) of drugs by the government a few months back. In a press release on Saturday, JSA said, “This is a huge setback to efforts aimed at bringing a semblance of order into the absolute anarchy that exists in India’s pharmaceutical market.”

paediatrician at community health centre (CHC) Jobat.Provision of.

At a time when Gujarat is being touted as a medical tourism hub, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has received 115 complaints related to healthcare services from Gujarat in the past 18 months.

Health minister Parsadi Lal Meena whipped up a controversy on World Cancer Day by saying, “Cancer happens to those also who do not smoke tobacco and then there are those who smoke tobacco excessively and don’t get cancer.

Experts have questioned the rationale of high prices of Covaxin since it is based on an established technology, is domestically-produced, and it’s R&D has been part-subsidised by the Centre. Other vaccines like polio and hepatitis B using a similar technology platform, are affordable due to large volumes and economies of scale, a strategy which should have been followed early-on in the case of Covaxin, they said.

Social activists demanding implementation of Right to Health Act have welcomed the state government’s move to pass the Bill it in the assembly, but claimed that it had been “diluted and become weak”.

JAA, a branch of the national-level body called Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), has been working in Maharashtra for the last eleven years for improving the reach of public health system in remote areas.

More than 80 health rights activists gathered here on Tuesday to discuss the proposed Right to Health Act, which will be implemented in the state.

The Rajasthan chapter of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) is petitioning the government to carry out modifications in the Bhamashah Swasthya Bima Yojana (BSBY), introduced last December, with the aim of allowing even the poorest access to private hospitals.

Jan Swasthya Abhiyan has petitioned chief minister Vasundhara Raje to strengthen the state’s free diagnostics and medicines scheme, which had offered much relief to poor patients.

The first meeting of the select committee on right to health happened on Tuesday in the assembly. The committee was formed in September of 2022, and the leader of the BJP, Kalicharan Saraf, and a member of the committee, demanded that the government should inform the committee on the changes it made to the bill. They mentioned that they had made changes based on the suggestions of doctors, private hospitals, and other stakeholders, but Saraf said that they wanted the changes to be given in writing. The next meeting is scheduled for February 13, and private hospitals are totally against the bill. Chhaya Pachauli, state coordinator of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, said that the bill is not acceptable to them because there is no question of making amendments and changes. Activists from the private health sector have welcomed the decision of the state government to bring such a bill, which guaranteed treatment of patients in emergencies. However, opponents of the bill have said that it refers to the private health sector only in the context of emergency medical care, and that it is not more than 1 of the total morbidities. This shows a surreptitious mindset on the part of those who are opposing the bill.

"The scheme will only cover hospital-based care, while data shows that the bulk of expenditure that patients incur is on conditions when they are not admitted to hospitals - such as patients receiving care for TB, cancers, etc," pointed out Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), a federation of civil society groups working on public health.

Under severe criticism from several quarters, including NGOs and experts deputed by the Centre, the Chhattisgarh government has shelved its controversial proposal to outsource diagnostic facilities in the state to private sector.