Asha Workers

Come rain, sun, hail or indeed a contagion, the band of women who form the bedrock of India's rural healthcare system slog on, anonymous, underpaid and mostly unsung until last week when the WHO honoured them for their efforts in controlling Covid.

ASHA, which means "hope"in English, comprises more than one million female volunteers.

In the past five days, around 80 healthcare workers, including doctors and Asha workers, have tested positive for Covid in Bengaluru. The Karnataka government has issued an advisory asking the public to visit hospitals only in case of an emergency.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today accused the Uttar Pradesh government of "insulting" the work done by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and promised an honorarium of Rs 10,000 per month for ASHA and Anganwadi workers.

Among the candidates who cracked the examination to join Rajasthan Administrative Service is 40-year-old Asha Kandara. But her story is like no one else's.

From sweeping streets as a municipal worker to becoming a Rajasthan government official, Asha Kandara, 40, has shown what true grit can achieve.

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope today announced that ASHA workers will get an increment of Rs 1,000 in their wages and Rs 500 as Covid allowance per month from July besides a smartphone.

In Assam's Jimirigaon village, Asha worker Kanika Rabha and nurse Rashmi Kachari are going door-to-door screening over 400 residents for Covid symptoms.

The NHRC has issued notices to the the centre and the states over allegations of "poor working conditions" of ASHA workers in the rural areas across the country, the rights panel said on Monday.

182 pregnant women have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in Punjab in the last four days of household screening by ASHA workers in the state. Health Minister Balbir Sidhu said that ASHA workers have surveyed 24.7 lakh households covering th

COVID-19 has so far claimed the lives of 162 doctors, 107 nurses and 44 ASHA workers in the country, Rajya Sabha was told on Tuesday.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the incentive amount given to ASHA workers.

Just a few months ago, thousands of people stood in their balconies, clapping and banging pots and pans, to show gratitude towards the health workers fighting the pandemic. But on the ground, many of them face discrimination over the fear of the spread of the highly contagious virus.

India's frontline coronavirus warriors - ASHA workers - are up in protests in Delhi and Haryana. While 20,000 ASHA workers of Haryana have been on strike since August 7, 6,000 workers in Delhi have been on strike since July 21. They have two demands - better safety gears and proper wages.

They helped eradicate polio in India and reduced the number of women dying during child birth. But the country's catastrophic coronavirus outbreak, now the third-largest in the world, has pushed its all-female army of contact-tracing health workers to breaking point.

Come rain, sun, hail or indeed a contagion, the band of women who form the bedrock of India's rural healthcare system slog on, anonymous, underpaid and mostly unsung until last week when the WHO honoured them for their efforts in controlling Covid.

ASHA, which means "hope"in English, comprises more than one million female volunteers.

In the past five days, around 80 healthcare workers, including doctors and Asha workers, have tested positive for Covid in Bengaluru. The Karnataka government has issued an advisory asking the public to visit hospitals only in case of an emergency.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today accused the Uttar Pradesh government of "insulting" the work done by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and promised an honorarium of Rs 10,000 per month for ASHA and Anganwadi workers.

Among the candidates who cracked the examination to join Rajasthan Administrative Service is 40-year-old Asha Kandara. But her story is like no one else's.

From sweeping streets as a municipal worker to becoming a Rajasthan government official, Asha Kandara, 40, has shown what true grit can achieve.

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope today announced that ASHA workers will get an increment of Rs 1,000 in their wages and Rs 500 as Covid allowance per month from July besides a smartphone.

In Assam's Jimirigaon village, Asha worker Kanika Rabha and nurse Rashmi Kachari are going door-to-door screening over 400 residents for Covid symptoms.

The NHRC has issued notices to the the centre and the states over allegations of "poor working conditions" of ASHA workers in the rural areas across the country, the rights panel said on Monday.

182 pregnant women have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in Punjab in the last four days of household screening by ASHA workers in the state. Health Minister Balbir Sidhu said that ASHA workers have surveyed 24.7 lakh households covering th

COVID-19 has so far claimed the lives of 162 doctors, 107 nurses and 44 ASHA workers in the country, Rajya Sabha was told on Tuesday.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the incentive amount given to ASHA workers.

Just a few months ago, thousands of people stood in their balconies, clapping and banging pots and pans, to show gratitude towards the health workers fighting the pandemic. But on the ground, many of them face discrimination over the fear of the spread of the highly contagious virus.

India's frontline coronavirus warriors - ASHA workers - are up in protests in Delhi and Haryana. While 20,000 ASHA workers of Haryana have been on strike since August 7, 6,000 workers in Delhi have been on strike since July 21. They have two demands - better safety gears and proper wages.

They helped eradicate polio in India and reduced the number of women dying during child birth. But the country's catastrophic coronavirus outbreak, now the third-largest in the world, has pushed its all-female army of contact-tracing health workers to breaking point.