Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister said, "Delighted that the entire team of ASHA workers have been conferred the WHO Director-General's Glob...

Called Accredited Social Health Activists, or “Asha” the Hindi word for hope, these women are teaming up with trade unions with muscle to s...

The joint platform of scheme workers, consisting of the organisations of scheme workers affiliated to the central trade union have called f...

The union health secretary asked states to “quickly undertake gap analysis to identify the extent of preparedness needed at the state and d...

The kin of Asha workers who have died due to COVID-19 will get a compensation of Rs 50 lakh, the minister said. Accredited Social Health Ac...

A few of the village heads ET spoke to said the pandemic had no impact. Some said several people had died in their villages with Covid-like...

The states have started ramping up health infrastructure and setting up makeshift health facilities for isolation and treatment at communit...

All health workers, including doctors, paramedical staff, housekeeping staff, sanitation workers, accredited social health activists (Asha)...

This was stated by Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey in the House in response to a question on the number of healthcare st...

A woman public health worker, who had taken Covid vaccine on January 19, died at a government-run hospital in Guntur in the early hours of ...

Two health care workers were admitted to hospital as they reported Adverse Event Following Immunisation (AEFI) after receiving jab of COVID...

A platform of workers under schemes such as Anganwadi, ASHA and national health mission had given a call for a two-day nationwide strike de...

After months of harassment, underpayment and lack of protection from infection, about 600,000 of the country’s one million Accredited Socia...

All government health centres, wellness centres and hospitals of Centre, as well as States, will be covered under this scheme. Approximatel...

The state had to suspend its extensive family planning activities since April, as the entire focus of the government machinery shifted to f...

Rajasthan orders Covid-19 checks for pregnant women in hotspots, UP restarts community check-ups and home visits for pregnant women, infants

A rapid response team (RRT) will identify containment zones based on the extent of cases/contacts listed and mapped by them, the document r...