At the Saipau community health centre in Dholpur district, bottles of intravenous (IV) fluid hang from nails hammered into the tree trunks. The health centre, which has just 15 beds, is overwhelmed as there has been a spike in the cases of viral fever brought in by monsoon rains. Patients being treated under the tree at the Community health centre in Sempau. Patients and their attendants are forced to defecate in the open as the health centre is not equipped to handle the huge number of people. Community health centres are a crucial link in rural health care and are meant to provide services to areas that do not have big hospitals.

Source: Hindustan Times September 11, 2016 14:30 UTC