At a Thursday haat in Awapalli town in the heart of the generally tribal Maoist savagery hit Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, practically everything includes some significant downfalls. You get chickens for cockfights for Rs 1,000, mahua alcohol for Rs 5 a glass and Rs 10 a jug and red ants to make chapura (chutney made with red ants pulverized with garlic, ginger and stew) for Rs10 a fistful.
Be that as it may, health checks and medications are for nothing, affability a travelling center and medicinal staff who regularly hail from the group.
Chhattisgarh's travelling centers go where no specialists have gone some time recently. Dr Shailendra Kumar, piece medicinal officer at Usoor square flanking Telangana, runs a temporary center under a mahua tree at town haats (market, for example, this one every week with a wellbeing collaborator, a staff attendant, a helper nurture birthing assistant and two volunteers close by.
They take social insurance to individuals excessively frightened, making it impossible to go to government doctor's facilities and centers in light of genuine or saw left-wing fanaticism (LWE) dangers against utilizing state-run clinics, schools and community administrations. Their feelings of trepidation aren't unwarranted. Among every Indian state, Chhattisgarh is the most exceedingly terrible influenced by Maoist brutality. Till September 30 this year, 845 episodes of LWE savagery asserted 226 lives in India. Of these, 85 individuals passed on in 313 assaults in Chhattisgarh, with Jharkhand being a nearby second with 265 episodes and 71 passings.
"Numerous villagers still go to customary pharmaceutical men for cure and don't get the free wellbeing administrations accessible to them," says Dr Kumar. "At the point when individuals don't come to us, we go to them. They come to haats with their families, this is the ideal place to inoculate the youngsters and treat the individuals who look sick."