May 2018

Sister company of Health Issues India evaluates EU investments in Indian health

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A new study reports that it is difficult to show the overall impact of massive European investment in poverty-related diseases. The study was conducted by RAND and Baird’s CMC, a policy research company that is in the same group of companies as Health Issues India. The study, commissioned by the European Union (EU), did report …

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Behind India’s deadly dust storms

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Dust storms at the beginning of May left a trail of death and devastation across the northern Indian states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. More than 127 people were killed. Dust storms are a normal part of India’s climate in the summer months. They usually pass with comparatively little incident. The death toll rarely exceeds …

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Progeria awareness in India

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A rare disease causes children to rapidly mimic the symptoms — often dying before they become teenagers — yet it remains under-identified. The disease is all but unknown in India due to its rarity, though efforts of the Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) and social media campaigners such as Nihal Bitla — a child from Mumbai …

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The inequality of improvement: What the HAQ Index tells India

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Access to healthcare has improved in India since 1990 – but not enough. Meanwhile, inequality persists. The country takes the 145th place out of 195 countries on the Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index. This measures the accessibility and quality of healthcare in countries by drawing on a plethora of data, including the 2016 Global …

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Centre to establish 70 cancer centres, says Modi

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The Centre will establish seventy new cancer facilities across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged. The Centre plans to erect twenty state cancer institutes and fifty tertiary cancer care centres, Modi said during a speech at the Adyar Cancer Institute in Chennai. There will be fourteen new oncology-focused All India Institutes of Medical …

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Diarrhoea is the most common infectious outbreak in India

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Diarrhoeal disease is commonplace and often lethal in the developing world low and middle countries (LMICs). Diarrhoea is identified as the second most common cause of death in children under five by the World Health Organization, with 1.7 billion cases and 520,000 deaths every year. In India, acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) is the most …

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Suicide of former Maharashtra ATS chief highlight lack of mental healthcare

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The former Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief and Additional Director General of Police in Maharashtra committed suicide on May 11. Himanshu Roy had been fighting cancer since 2000. Some have speculated that post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may have played a rolein his death. This high profile incident has spotlighted lacking mental healthcare within India, …

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Rotavac becomes first Indian developed vaccine to pass WHO standards

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The Rotavac vaccine — created to immunise against rotavirus — has become the first vaccine entirely developed within India to receive World Health Organization (WHO) approval. Rotavac is currently considered to be “pre-qualified” by the WHO. This means that the vaccine can now be sold to countries across the world and included in UNICEF procurement …

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One in ten Indians affected by infertility

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Infertility affects ten to fourteen percent of Indians according to the Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction (ISAR). The ISAR warns that these figures are beginning to rise rapidly as infertility becomes more common in urban environments. According to a report released in 2015, 27.5 million couples who were actively seeking children suffered from infertility in …

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The high death toll of gender discrimination

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Gender discrimination and missing women The price of gender discrimination in India is the lives of almost 240,000 girls under five every year. Much attention is given in India to the issue of female foeticide. Sex-selective abortions are considered the major driver of India’s skewed sex ratio at birth (SRB) and its resultant 63 million …

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