Nearly 900,000 female community health workers are left vulnerable on India’s coronavirus frontline. via BBCWorld
Some 900,000 female community health workers are on the frontline as part of India’s battle against Covid-19. But they are poorly paid, ill-prepared and vulnerable to attacks and social stigma, reports BBC Marathi’s Shrikant Bangale.
Ms Nalawade is among the state’s 70,000 Ashas, short for Accredited Social Health Activists. She is a single mother, and has been doing this job for 10 years now in Pawarwadi village, where she lives.Ashas are drawn from local and largely rural communities, and are a crucial element in India’s primary and community health programmes.
But this doesn’t reassure the workers or their families who often discourage them from going to work.
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