On 13 March, just 15 minutes before 75-year-old Mohan Ram died, he had been demanding information from the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Barar about the benefits provided to pregnant women under the Janani Suraksha Yojana. Mohanba, as many of us addressed him, had actually gone to the hospital to collect his TB medicines, but decided to use the occasion to monitor the PHC as well. He got his answers, picked up his medicines, and on his way home, collapsed near the hospital gate and died.
A week earlier Mohanba had asked a similar set of questions. . .
