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Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 must be withdrawn It ignores workers

Arun Mitra — 2025-12-06T03:28:53Z

04.12.2025
Occupational Health and safety has been an issue of serious concern of health personnel as well as the workers

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Prime Minister

Arun Mitra — 2025-09-20T08:58:00Z

September 15, 2025
A tragedy that called for healing was met with rhetoric instead of statesmanship
Two years ago, we had travelled as a medical team of Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) to Manipur to assess the health status of the people. We visited Imphal, where the Meitei population is predominant, and Kangpokpi, largely inhabited by Kukis. What we saw was heart breaking. Families displaced from their homes were crowded into refugee camps without any privacy. Children (…)

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Pain and Psychotrauma of Wars | Arun Mitra

Arun Mitra — 2025-06-21T16:37:24Z

June 19, 2025
Two telephone calls that shook me and are still haunting were that I made to my acquaintances today. I could feel the anguish when I called my friend in Srinagar whose son is studying medicine in Tehran and with whom they are not having easy contact in the present situation. The family is much worried about his welfare but find them-selves helpless. They had not expected Israel

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Increase the allocation to health in the upcoming budget to minimum of 3% of the GDP

Arun Mitra — 2025-01-25T23:04:44Z

Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) Email: idpd2001[at]hotmail.com
Date: 22.01.2025
Press Note
In a letter written to the Finance Minister Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has demanded that allocation to health should be increased to at least 3% of the GDP in the upcoming budget. Considering the GDP in 2023-24 as 173.82 lakh crores, the allocation to the health in the previous budget of the central government which was 89287 (…)

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90 hours work a week is detrimental to both health and productivity | IDPD

Arun Mitra — 2025-01-11T23:25:21Z

Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
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Ludhiana

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BRICS a ray of hope for peace and just international economic order - sans commitment to nuclear weapons abolition | Arun Mitra

Arun Mitra — 2024-11-09T06:13:03Z

Date: 04.11.2024 The declaration of the recently ended 16th summit of the BRICS (now extended BRICS) has several points for which the developing and least developed countries have been aspiring for many decades. Even though colonization through direct military control by the erstwhile colonial powers has largely ended, the grievances of these countries continue as the imperial powers have evolved new methods to exert their control. Only a few decades ago the possibilities of (…)

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Nuclear Clouds over the Middle East can spread far and wide Collateral damage in Gaza | Arun Mitra

Arun Mitra — 2024-10-19T15:56:23Z

In the ongoing war in the Middle East, news that Iran could think of changing its nuclear doctrine is very disturbing but not unexpected. As the situation is developing in the region such adventurous happenings cannot be ruled out. Former Israeli heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu had in January 2024 renewed the call to use nuclear bomb on Gaza. The defence minister of Israel Yoav Gallant

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Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War — The Role of Health Professionals | Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, et al

Arun Mitra — 2023-08-05T07:05:41Z

In January, 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 s before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war. In August, 2022, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is now in “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War. The danger has been underlined by growing tensions between many nuclear armed states., As editors of health and medical journals (…)

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Declare Right to Health a Fundamental Right | Arun Mitra

Arun Mitra — 2023-04-08T03:58:41Z

The Passing of the Right to Health Bill by the Rajasthan Assembly is a long overdue requirement of the citizens and a demand of the health care organizations. This Act gives the residents of Rajasthan right to free healthcare. The right to health thus becomes justiciable, that is the government is now answerable in the eyes of law. The Act primarily puts the onus on the state to ensure healthcare to the people through the guarantee of nutrition, safe drinking water, sewerage facilities etc. (…)

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