Madhubani District, Bihar With 13 years of experience, auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) Jayanti has been working at the 30-bedded community health center (CHC) at Khutauna in Madhubani district of Bihar and is not new to managing risks and complications. But when COVID-19 arrived and started spreading fast, she found it hard to ascertain all the
Kechri village, Block Todabhim, District Karauli, Rajasthan Meena Kumari Jataw, an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) workingfor the last 11 years at a sub center in Rajasthan’s Machri village, is witnessing the perils of the pandemic on the bodies and minds of people every day. Surrounded by the Aravalli mountain range, this agrarian village makes for
While the world’s resources and energy get diverted to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, failure to attend to essential maternal and newborn health services might cost more dearly than the pandemic itself. Jodhpur, Rajasthan Childbirth cannot wait for the pandemic curve to flatten, or for the lockdown to end and life to trickle back to normalcy.
