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Newborn in a Hospital in Bihar
A nurse tends to a newborn baby delivered by Caesarian section in Tripolia Hospital. Both the medical instruments the Caesarian was performed with and the clothes the baby is wrapped in are sterilised by the hospital's steam-generating solar system on the roof. The system is one of a variety owned by the hospital, which also create electricity for some areas, and prepare warm baths and medicines for patients. The various solar systems cater for the 200 staff who live on campus, as well as up to 250 inpatients. Tripolia Hospital, Patna, Bihar.
07/08/2010
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The eastern state of Bihar is one of the most energy deprived regions in all of India. Government policy to distribute electricity through a centralised grid is failing to provide power to people in rural areas, and tens of millions of people have no access to electricity at all. If this traditional, fossil-fuel-based approach continues, the lack of energy access will soon become a bottleneck to Bihar's otherwise rapid development. This documentation includes various initiatives taken by local entrepreneurs who are successfully developing decentralized non-conventional energy production, using solar and discarded rice husk power systems.
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