Over 5000 people benefited under the Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam scheme
The Hindu
Madurai About 5179 people from the district have benefited under the Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam scheme that was launched in the State last month with an aim to provide door-to-door medical assistance t
Madurai
About 5179 people from the district have benefited under the Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam scheme that was launched in the State last month with an aim to provide door-to-door medical assistance to those above 45 years of age and others with infirmities.
A press note from the Collectorate said that the scheme was successfully launched and carried out in different villages across the Sedapatti block, with the support of 24 trained women health volunteers, a healthcare worker, a nurse and a physiotherapist.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”
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