Allow your passion to become your purpose

Durg District, Chhattisgarh, India Janki, a Community Health Officer (CHO) of Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Center (AB-HWC) Amleswar in Durg District of Chhattisgarh had one motto in life – to make her passion her profession. She went ahead and did exactly that by studying nursing and worked as a nurse for three years, till

Maternal and Newborn Care in the Time of COVID-19

In some of the most challenging areas for health, delivering high-quality care for all women should be the standard—before, during and after COVID-19. As the world struggles to adjust to life during a pandemic, maternal health needs don’t go away—they grow. Now more than ever, the health needs of women must be safeguarded. In the

A New Nurse, a New Virus: Combating COVID-19

A mere few months ago, 25-year-old nurse Chetna Sharma was dispatched to her first-ever posting as a community health officer at the Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Center (HWC) in rural Madhya Pradesh, India. As if figuring out how to serve 7,000-plus people living across six villages in central India wasn’t daunting enough, she also