This story of a small screening project for tuberculosis in an urban slum by three students and their public health teacher sheds light on the pertinent gaps between policy and implementation, revealing to us the amount of ground there is still left to cover in terms of grassroots TB care.
The Multidimensional Poverty Index misses the reality of everyday hardship. Homes, water, schools, and healthcare may exist on paper but broken systems, debt, and poor quality leave families struggling unseen. See what the data hides
In a town shaped by iron ore and labour unrest, Shaheed Hospital emerged not from charity or the state, but from collective struggle. Built by workers and run through radical democracy, it reimagines healthcare as an act of resistance, care, and solidarity.
A poem on how tuberculosis is spoken of as eliminable in policy language while persisting in bodies, homes, and margins. As targets rise, care recedes.
Technocratic evaluations have become political tools, tearing down a programme that gave workers power and dignity. Stripped of political understanding, policy now quietly serves corporate interests at the expense of the poor.
Blaming patients for getting cancer when the government sells tobacco and the health system fails them everyday is unfair.
