Category: Public Health

What about the Small Planters and Sellers?

A sustainable future will depend on whether we can draw potent lessons from past blunders in respect of climate change, inequality, a fairer sharing of the fruits of

Societal shocks can break different ways, making things better or worse

Q & A: Dr Deoraj Caussy

It is all about what individuals do – it is they, people singly or collectively, adopting what is recommended to first protect themselves and then others too

The Spanish flu killed tens of millions of people, the AH1N1 pandemic tens of thousands, and the COVID-19 to date thousands – with foreseeably a lower rate of

What are the risks posed by coronaviruses to health, and what are the implications of WHO’s decision for Mauritius and the rest of Africa?

If we can spend billions of rupees for smart cameras to follow us from the cradle to the grave, why cannot we have a family doctor to monitor

‘There is a lot of variability between species, but as a rule of thumb, a tree that lives to 40 or 50 years will have taken up about

By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

The interest of the girl child and her protection will be better served by legislators fulfilling their duty and responsibility by enacting legislation founded on such solid medical

Marriage below 18 years: The Medical Dimension

By Dr Rajagopal Soondron

By Rajagopal Soondron

Even when we think they have been brought under control, they can come back or re-emerge as the jargon goes