One pioneering doctor has worked for 25 years to improve healthcare in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum,starting with throwing out dirty incubatorsMumbai’s busiest public medical centre, Sion Hospital, or stands as a defining landmark on the southeast border of one of the citys most well-known slums. Until the 1970s,Dharavi was an afterthought outpost in a peninsula city. A period of rapid migration and urbanisation pushed the city’s population northward and migrants from all over India settled there. The area became a residential and productive hub of the informal economy – pottery, recycling, and food processing,leather-making, garment industries lived and worked in the one-kilometre area. nowadays, or anywhere from 600000 to a million (no friendly figures exist) people squeeze into the tiny plot of land in matchbox-like homes that have struggled to get even the most basic services.
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Source: theguardian.com