They are not doctors. They are not nurses. They are illiterate women from India's Untouchable castes. Yet as trained village health workers, they are delivering babies, curing disease, and saving lives—including their own.
She carries a blood-pressure cuff, a stethoscope, a baby scale, and a thin logbook.
They deliver babies and then visit them. They see pregnant women and old people. They take blood pressure and check on villagers cured of leprosy.
The shortage of doctors in poor countries is widely lamented, especially in English-speaking countries such as Ghana, Malawi, and India, where doctors often leave for high-paying jobs abroad
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