The Health Worker by RamG Vallath
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Why Organ Donation is so Difficult in India?
India has lakhs of patients waiting for organs — kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs. Yet the number of donors remains extremely small.
In this episode of The Health Worker, Ram G. Vallath speaks with Dr. Sunil Shroff, founder of the Mohan Foundation and one of the pioneers of organ donation in India.
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Palliative Care, Chronic Illness & India’s Ageing Future | Dr. Rajagopal
Pain relief in India is often treated as an afterthought — delayed, minimised, or ignored altogether. In a healthcare system focused overwhelmingly on cure, suffering is frequently normalised, even when it doesn’t have to be.
In this episode of The Health Worker, we speak with Dr. Rajagopal, one of India’s most respected voices on palliative care, pain management, and end-of-life ethics, to ask why pain continues to be sidelined in medical practice — and what this means for a country facing rising chronic illness and a rapidly ageing population.
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Choosing to Stay: Building Healthcare in Rural India
What makes doctors give up high-paying city careers and stay for three decades in one of India’s most remote regions? In this episode of The Health Worker, Ram G. Vallath from the speaks with Dr. John Oommen and Mercy John, who chose to work in the largely Adivasi region of Bissam Cuttack, Odisha, instead of pursuing lucrative opportunities in India or abroad.
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The Valley that Learned to Heal Itself | Dr. Regi George and the Tribal Health Initiative
When a dehydrated child dies in his arms, Dr. Regi George begins to question everything he knows about being a doctor. Along with his wife, Dr. Lalitha Regi, he leaves a secure hospital job and sets out in search of what it truly means to serve. Their journey leads them to Sittilingi, a remote tribal valley in Tamil Nadu that had no doctor for fifty kilometres and no hospital within a hundred.