Hospitals overflowing with emaciated children and sickly mothers, rivers and wells full of water that is unsuitable to drink and unimaginable poverty and disease. City editor Vinod Kumar Menon and senior photographer Atul Kamble bring you the report from ground zero in rural Thane
550 kids starving in Jawhar, Mokhada
Young, undernourished women in their teens give birth several times and in quick succession; grinding poverty and rampant unemployment means that their children live in squalor and are denied proper nutrition, safe drinking water, or even breast milk... Read more
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In drought or deluge, water woes a constant
It's the proverbial choice between hell and high water for tribals staying in these villages of Jawhar, Mokhada, Vikramgad, Wada, Shahapur talukas in rural Thane, which experience drought for most months of the year.u00a0When they do receive water, it is unfit for drinking, and causes water-borne diseases... Read more
We admit 5 patients every day for malnourishment
Dr Sanjay Kawade at Cottage Hospital speaks of the rise in cases of malnutrition in the region and the lack of nutritious food that leads to the problem... Read more
Pics/ Atul Kamble
Netas’ visit leads to cleaning frenzy
Hours prior to Rajendra Gavit and Madhukar Pichad’s visit, workers at Cottage Hospital in Jawhar were busy scrubbing and cleaning the filthy wards, and installing grills, right next to sick children with low immunity... Read more
258 The number of malnourished children in Jawhar in July
291 The number of malnourished children in Mokhada in June
400 The number of children being treated at primary health centres and rural hospitals in the regionu00a0
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