Posts Tagged ‘health’
Chikungunya, the ignored pandemic in Bangalore
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: June 14, 2009
While the rest of the world is focused on Swine flu and India is just recording the first of its confirmed cases, places like Bangalore have another virus that is doing the rounds. Like in pervious years this virus too has the potential to reach pandemic proportions and yet, few, least of all the government [...]
Are PWDs a Burden to Their Families?
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: December 10, 2008
Are PWDs a Burden to Their
Families?
In early August 2008 , India witnessed an interesting debate sparked off by a couple in Mumbai who wanted to abort their 6 month old fetus, after doctors reported that the child would be born with a congenital heart condition that would require medical care throughout the child’s [...]
Are People with Disabilities a Burden to Their Families?
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: September 1, 2008
Are PWD a Burden to Their Families?
Early this month the country witnessed an interesting debate sparked off by a couple in Mumbai who wanted to abort their 6 month old fetus, after doctors reported that the child would be born with a congenital heart condition that would require medical care throughout the child’s life. The [...]
A little known disability
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: July 18, 2008
A little known disability
IN PERSPECTIVE
Muscular dystrophy is a largely unknown disability that needs clinical intervention at an early stage.
While travelling in rural Bangalore, I remember meeting a bright little 12-year-old lad. His mother told me that he was the topper in his class but had to abandon school in the 5th standard. He was too [...]
Spinal Cord Injury
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: March 13, 2008
Spinal Cord Injury
Besides physical and psychological rehabilitation, persons with SCI also need economic independence to lead a dignified life.
It is difficult to hazard a guess on the number of people that exist in India with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI). However, it could well be somewhere between the Chinese figures of 65 cases per million [...]
Let us talk Autism
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: January 18, 2008
Let us talk Autism
IN PERSPECTIVE
Part of the answer lies in the educational system adopting a more flexible approach.
These days, children with autism and their parents are an excited lot. Finally through a two hour commercial film they can expect a little more understanding, from their relatives, friends, teachers, peers and associates. A nuanced [...]
Mental Illness as Disability
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: December 24, 2007
Mental Illness as Disability
IN PERSPECTIVE
The issue of mental illness needs to be brought to the centre stage.
Worldwide, there are believed to be around 450 million people suffering from mental or behavioural disorders. 14 per cent of all global disease burden is attributed to mental disorders. There is one psychiatrist for 10,000 people in high income [...]
Shrinking health services a growing concern for people with disabilities
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: April 16, 2007
IN PERSPECTIVE
Access to health services is a matter of growing concern everywhere and to everyone, with Government budgets falling and rapid privatization, access to health care is becoming yet another symbol of social inequality. What happens to marginalized sections like people with disabilities (PWDs) who are dependent on public health care services for long periods [...]
Building a Memorial for Fallen Heroes
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: March 5, 2007
Where women fall,
There the grass grows.
Greener for the fertility.
They fall
Acid burnt,
Charred,
Cut to pieces (sometimes cooked),
Beaten,
Bloody,
Diseased,
Violated,
Unloved,
Objectified,
Vilified,
Demonized,
Haunted,
Taunted,
Deluding,
Where women fall,
There the grass grows.
Greener for the fertility.
In three days it shall be 8th March. Another Womens Day, that time of the year to do a reality check and assess just how much we have progressed in the year [...]
Lillian @ Poetry
- Blinded by RageThey’ve cheating me, aren’t they?Those rotting hearts on smiling facesThey’ve cheating me, aren’t they?Those sleek tongues in wicked mindsThe pain oozes out of an innocent faceA ray of trust just blew outMy heart fell, he saysand the word comes back to me, after very many monthsIn the loss of innocenceIn angerPainHelplessnessIt matters not what glory you acq […]
- Advertising Cloud 9The horizon in shades of green,Water tanks, blue and black,Clothes of all hues waving in the breeze.Cloud 9 advertising its services,Who would think, it would need to?But it does,Its the recession.
- Untitledoh why does my soul refuse to rest.it bounds up,against gravity,like there were thorns that pricked its underside.refusing it rest.oh my soul has a bloody breasta weary heartthat longs to rest,but somehow each night is dayin its unending search to run away.
- UntitledI stare out,As the orange-pink of sunsetFades away into silhouettes,Large dark trees, rise upAnd the cold road leads away.The breeze whips at my face,The curtains buffeted in the strong wind,Fly around uncontrollably like shreds,My heart feels the same,As it leaves sweet memories behind.Parting can never be harder.15th April 2009
- Happy Women’s Day?.......... I beg your pardonIts 8th March, International Women’s DayBut she doesn’t know it.She wakes up at 6.00 a.m,like she has for the last 12 years,her mental clock and love for her family helps her up.she fills the rice into the cooker, chops up the vegetables in the yellow light of the bulb.The chickens in their coop stir, at the first break of light.the brass pot rolls down on t […]
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