The Jan Swasthya Sahyog hosted the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Medico Friend Circle at its campus in Ganiyari last month, from January 27 to 29, 2017. One hundred and nineteen delegates from a variety of backgrounds and across India discussed the challenges around providing equitable and accessible healthcare to

After Internal medicine residency I joined the Health Equity Action Leadership Initiative (HEAL Initiative) as a rotating global health fellow. I spent my first six months at Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS, Ganiyari, Chhattisgarh, India) which is a secondary care hospital in rural central India. At JSS, I met Chandni (not

Delhi recorded its first death from chikungunya this week, and the toll from these mosquito-borne diseases has only been rising. In an article published in http://www.thehindubusinessline.com, public health experts stress the need to ‘vector-proof’ urban growth plans as part of sharpening preventive measures. The article quotes Dr. Yogesh Jain commenting

We have recently published a book – Chronicles from Central India – An Atlas of Rural Health which looks at health and illnesses via a lens of socio-economic and political forces. …Of the wide spectrum of human ailments, we started with a list of 50 odd illnesses that we commonly

Click here to read the article published on medium.com

Dr. Yogesh Jain condemns the arrest of Dr. Saibal Jana and urges all health professionals to condemn it too. Read more in this BMJ blog.. Yogesh Jain: Hippocratic crime

Watch Yogesh Jain talk at TEDx WalledCity , about how the kind of suffering a large section of society has to face, in developing countries and rural areas, is unfair and that we need doctors two-point-five to fix this

CLICK HERE to read an article published in The Caravan magazine written based on her visit to JSS by Anna Ruddock, a PhD candidate at the India Institute, King’s College London. The article talks about the scarcity and dire need of more family physicians / general practitioners in rural India.