When healthcare comes too late | Review of Ramani Atkuri’s Staying Alive
This article reviews Ramani Atkuri’s book 'Staying Alive', which details the tragic death of a pregnant tribal woman due to systemic failures in rural healthcare. It highlights the cascade of events, including lack of access and inadequate medical intervention, that lead to preventable maternal mortality.
Why it matters
It sheds light on the persistent gaps in rural healthcare infrastructure and the human cost of systemic neglect in India.
Every now and then, we see it in the newspapers: the picture of a pregnant tribal woman being carried in a makeshift stretcher or a wooden cot along a mud path in some remote village. People see the picture, feel a flicker of something, and then the news cycle moves on. In the tale of Sombari Sabar, Ramani Atkuri shows us what happens next.
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