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PRESENTED BY:
Govind Singh Kushwaha
India accounts for a sixth of the
world`s population .but only a sixth
of India`s billion people have
access to affordable healthcare.
Forty-five per cent of children under three are severely and chronically malnourished.
Only 42 per cent of children between the age of 12 and 24 months have completed
their immunisation schedule; a massive 14.4 per cent have not received a single
vaccine .
Only 31 per cent of the rural population has access to potable water supply and only
0.5 per cent enjoys basic sanitation .
Babies continue to die every day of treatable respiratory infections, diarrhoea and
other illnesses either preventable through clean water, nutritious food and cheap
vaccines, or treatable with basic drugs.
Some people believe that cancers, diabetes and heart disease will soon overtake
infectious diseases as the number one killer.
THE BURDEN OF DISEASE:
WHAT AILS INDIANS?
• At present, infectious and parasitic diseases dominate.
Malaria affects 2.6 million people each year, and killed at least 20,000 people in
1999.
India has the largest burden of leprosy patients in the world, with a caseload of over
4 million patients.
As Indians live longer, chronic
diseases, related to aging, are
expected to take a greater toll.
Cancers killed 653,000 people in 1998, the
single largest type being mouth and oropharynx
cancer. An estimated 1.5 million new cases
occur each year .
Cardiovascular diseases, which includes those
with an infectious origin, such as rheumatic heart
disease, killed 2,820,000 people in 1998 .
Diabetes: In 1994 there were 20 million
diabetics in India; there will be more than 33
million in 2005, according to World Health
Organisation estimates .
Indian women often tolerate ill
health without complaint.
A considerable proportion of women suffer silently from a
range of gynecological problems.
Quality of care