Author: Bhavani Prabhakar

IMH social welfare officer Ambika says that only patients who show a certain amount of improvement are sent to take up industrial therapy. “Recovering inmates cannot stay calm when they are left in their wards. When they are made to indulge in activities such as this, they are focussed,” she states.

When we do not consume anything for most part of the day, our body utilises the stored carbohydrate and fat to energise once all the calories from the previous night’s meal have been exhausted.

The NGO, working across several countries and in India for the past several years to catalyse change, feels that bringing health and wealth together can make a difference in the prevention sector. To facilitate this, they launched ‘i4We – Invest for Wellness’ programme that helps rural communities be prepared for health crisis.

Raju*, a man in his thirties, can any day be seen doing some official writing work at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Kilpauk. He came in as an inmate with schizophrenia disorder and has undergone rehabilitation therapy. Seeing his improvement, the doctors have given the nod to integrate him with his family.

Away from the rush in jewellery stores, in a nondescript Srinivasa Naicker Complex in Tambaram, goldsmiths are clanking a gold ring on suyamvaram, a tool used to bring rings back in shape.

Sedentary lifestyle is a subject that healthcare experts raise concerns about. One life-threatening condition that has become common among the youth is coronary heart disease.

With the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (DPH&PM) assuring of eliminating malaria by 2023, the figures indicate steady reduction in other States, but not so in Chennai.

Amid all things English, not often do we give importance to our mother tongue. Only a handful people pen down their thoughts or poems or stories in Tamil. Somehow, the foreign language makes its way through during a casual or serious conversation.

With the city reeling under severe water crisis, it becomes the responsibility of every individual to be responsible. Given the intensity of scarcity, it is not shocking for several places that receive sewage water in freshwater lines.