दारू व तंबाखू : बंदीकडून मुक्तीकडे : लोकांच्या शक्तीकडे

राज्य व्यसनमुक्ती साहित्य संमेलन, चंद्रपूर डॉ. अभय बंग यांचे अध्यक्षीय भाषण स्व. न्यायमूर्ती चंद्रशेखर धर्माधिकारी हे गेली अनेक दशके दारूबंदीचे समर्थ पुरस्कर्ते व प्रेरणास्थान होते. एक महिन्यापूर्वी झालेल्या त्यांच्या निधनाने आपण मोठा आधार गमावला आहे. त्यांच्या स्मृतीला अभिवादन करून मी माझ्या मनोगताला सुरवात करतो. जे सहित चालतं ते साहित्य. या व्याख्येनुसार जे जे व्यसनमुक्तीसाठी आणि […]

Gadchiroli’s trudging doctors spell hope

Gadchiroli’s trudging doctors spell hope Written By: Pramit Bhattacharya Mumbai: One of India’s most backward districts and Maharashtra’s worst ranked in human development indicators, Gadchiroli, today finds itself at the forefront of a healthcare revolution that can potentially save millions of infant lives and help India rapidly reduce her abysmal infant mortality rate (IMR). Under the […]

देणाऱ्यानं देत जावं, घेणाऱ्यानं घेत जावं…

पडघम – कोमविप (कोकण, मराठवाडा, विदर्भ, प.महाराष्ट्र) लेखक – डॉ. सुजित अडसूळ Sun , 29 January 2017 गडचिरोलीसारख्या दुर्गम व नक्षलवाद्यांचा प्रभाव असलेल्या आदिवासी भागात गेली तीन-चार दशकं राहून व्यसनमुक्ती, कुपोषण, अंधश्रद्धा आणि आरोग्यसेवा यांसारख्या अत्यंत मूलभूत गोष्टींसाठी अहोरात्र झटणारं एक दाम्पत्य म्हणजे डॉ. अभय बंग आणि डॉ. राणी बंग. गेल्या अनेक वर्षांपासून डॉ. बंग SEARCHच्या […]

डोळस गांधीवादी

   February 5, 2013 लेखक – विश्वंभर चौधरी, अर्थतज्ज्ञ, गांधीवादी, प्रा. ठाकूरदास बंग   प्रा. ठाकूरदास बंग यांना प्रत्यक्ष भेटण्याची संधी क्वचित मिळाली असली तरी त्यांच्या विचारांनी मी आणि माझ्यासारखे अनेक जण प्रेरित झाले आहेत. गांधीजींच्या विचारांचा प्रभाव असलेले प्रा. बंग हे उत्तम अर्थतज्ज्ञही होते. त्यांच्या जाण्याने सर्वोदयाचा अस्त झाला आहे. त्यांच्यासारखे लोक असते तर भ्रष्टाचाराचे फोफावलेले रान कापून […]

Reflections on Gadchiroli by Sadath A Sayeed, Harvard Medical School, Boston

By Sadath A Sayeed,  Harvard Medical School, Boston “In 1993, the Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health (SEARCH) began conducting what it termed a “field trial of home-based neonatal care” in rural India. The centrepiece of this clinical, intervention-oriented study was the training of village women to evaluate babies around the time […]

Curbing newborn deaths in the developing world

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy(Founded as a collaboration between the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and alumni of the Wharton School at the  University of Pennsylvania) did a case study on SEARCH’s HBNC model. “Around the world, almost three million newborns die in their first month of life every year. Ninety-nine percent of these […]

शोधग्राम : माझा अनुभव

शोधग्राम “शोधग्राम”, डॉ. अभय बंग आणि डॉ. राणी बंग यांनी वसवीलेल एक छोटस गाव. गडचिरोली गावापासून १७ की. मी. अंतरावर असलेल एक अभूतपूर्व गाव. आयुष्यात काही माणसांना एकदा तरी भेटता यावे अशी इच्छा असते. माझी तर अस कोणकोणाला भेटायचे त्याची यादीच तयार झाली आहे. माझ्या या यादीमध्ये दोन नाव होती डॉ. अभय बंग आणि डॉ. […]

गांधी व संघ

गांधी व संघ : काय भुललासी वरलीया रंगा ? डॉ. अभय बंग ‘गांधीवादात दडलेले संघीय प्रतिगामित्‍व’ ह्या राजीव सानेंच्‍या लेखाचे दोन भाग करता येतील. लेखाचा बहुतेक भाग गांधीजीवर तेच जुने आरोप आहेत जे गेली शंभर वर्षे गांधी विरोधकांनी केले आहेत. सदानंद मोरेंच्‍या ‘लोकमान्‍य ते महात्‍मा’ या द्विखंडीय पुस्‍तकात अशा टीकेबाबत– जी ब-याचदा निंदा व कुचाळक्‍यांच्‍या […]

From Lost to ‘SEARCH’ via NIRMAN

No clinical post graduation, no private practice, no job in central healthcare system (district or sub-district hospital). Pondering over these decisions, confused he entered NIRMAN. A process that was initiated over a year ago did one unique thing that had never happened before – it made Dr. Hrishikesh Munshi, from Wardha, ask questions to himself. […]

Candle in the dark

One candle in a dark room is enough to ward off the darkness and a determined heart can give strength to the timorous. At a time when tobacco and alcohol are becoming the leading cause of cancer and stroke in Gadchiroli, Rakhi’s resoltion and her father’s surrender is a testimony worthy of applause. Rakhi from […]

An affordable relief

Looking into the mirror she felt queasy. Everything had gone into a stand still since a year. She had to give up farming, couldn’t carry baskets on her head, had to avoid social gatherings, her routine life had gone for a toss, and even worse, she had lost confidence in herself! “You will need a […]

When a ventilator helps those at the bottom of the pyramid

On the early mornings of 24th July 2014 Sainebai, a resident of a tribal village where SEARCH works had a snake bite. Due to the toxic effect of the venom of krait her muscles were completely paralysed. When she was brought to the hospital of SEARCH she could barely breathe due to muscle paralysis and […]

A life saved…

For Mahadev Satpute visiting a tribal village of Gathanyeli in Gadchiroli was a general supervisorial job. On reaching the village, Dudhram Parse, a Community Health Worker (CHW) told them of a family who according to their prevailing tribal practices had placed the mother and the baby in a sepa-rate dark hut, and none of the […]

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