the village 'ASHA', the name by which the primary health worker is commonly known. ASHA stands for Accredited Social Health Activist a term used to refer to community health workers as part of the ...

Your guide to the most important ... The community health worker’s day is packed with visits to women and children in her village in the southwestern Indian state of Maharashtra, assisting ...

first established the role of these community health volunteers in 2005. ASHA worker is primarily a woman resident of the village married/ widowed/ divorced, preferably in the age group of 25 to ...

Matilda Kullu, 45, an ASHA worker for 15 years from ... today the rate of institutional deliveries in her village is 100 per cent, the overall health of the people and children has also improved ...

or ASHA, composed of female community health workers. The women in the village played a crucial role in the digital detox initiative. “We gathered the village women, including the mothers of the ...

In all, 42,752 ASHA workers are set to get the new benefits in the State. The gratuity benefit ensures each ASHA worker with 30 years of service gets Rs 1.50 lakh.

They promote health awareness, ensure access to medical facilities, and advocate for preventive care. Every village in India has at least one ASHA worker, making them indispensable to the country ...

For Suman Ramchandra Dhebe (45), a community health worker under the Accredited Social Health Activist (Asha) programme ... Dhebe lives in Pole village, located about 49 km from Velhe town.

Chandigarh: In a significant move to strengthen healthcare delivery at the grassroots level, the Punjab health department has reconstituted village health ... informed that Asha workers were ...