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Osmanabad, Maharashtra

Aug 13, 2020

ASHAs: labouring through the lockdown

In Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district, ASHAs have been working overtime to monitor the spread of Covid-19, despite poor safety gear and delayed payments – along with their usual load as frontline health workers

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Ira Deulgaonkar

Ira Deulgaonkar is studying for a PhD at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on the impact of climate change on vulnerable and marginalised communities in the Global South. She was a PARI intern in 2020.