A Toast at birth, but stranded at fifty-five
Index Home This is not a blog about mid-life crisis. Neither is it about a disease. Rather, it is about a modern structure. Nations anticipated its birth for seven long years.…
International philanthropies in health: How were they named?
Index Home Earliest faith based charities Philanthropy is often related to religion. Before 1900s church was a base for most international charities. These derived their name from a saint. For instance,…
Slithering serpents and health-care
Index Home Towards the end of 20th century, JK Rowling created Harry Potter. Slytherin was one of its four houses. This house had serpent as a symbol, and its inmates were…
Story behind world’s first international health organisation
It was 1870. A mysterious disease had struck Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay. Men and women would develop fever, muscle pains, yellow eyes, and would die as their liver would…
Global recognition of Child rights
Index Home Child rights are less than a 100 years old Children have rights, and today all countries recognise them. Firstly, all children have a right to education. All governments…
Mission immunisation and polio eradication
Home Index Today polio stands eliminated from all but two countries in the world. India was declared to have eliminated polio in the year 2014. Ten years later about 65 odd…
Two tools for child survival: ORS & Growth charts
Home Index Two ubiquitous child-survival tools, oral rehydration solutions (ORS) and growth charts, are less than 50 years old. Both of these tools are simple, intuitive, and logical. In the 1980s,…
Breast feeding: A preferred infant nutrition in postage stamps
Home Index Have you ever wondered about old baby-food advertisements. In these advertisements, we could see healthy-chubby infants and happy composed mothers. Once frequent on television and in print media, these…
Celebrating motherhood in postal stamps
Home Index A child is born Childbirth is a beginning, of an independent human life. This event is universal to all creatures. It has its beginnings in conception, a union…
Health stamp series from New Zealand
Index Home Whenever a commodity is in popular use, governments leverage it to raise money for a variety of purposes. Today, when we buy petrol, diesel, cigarettes, alcohol, gold etc, we…