Indian patients get just two minutes with their doctor on average. India falls far short of the majority of nations when it comes to the length of time a patient can expect to spend with a doctor. An appointment with a doctor at the primary care level was found to average out at around 2 …
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Heart disease accounted for 28.1 percent of all deaths in India in 2016. This firmly places heart conditions at the forefront of causes of death. Previously, the list of most common causes of death in India was dominated by infectious disease. Growing public knowledge and better prevention tactics have allowed for reductions of many infectious …
More births took place in India on New Year’s Day, more than any other country. UNICEF estimates 386,000 children were born on January 1, 2018 with more than 90 percent of them born in low and middle income countries (LMICs). India tops the list with 69,070 births, followed by China with 44,760 births and Nigeria …
Hyderabad has been declared open defecation free (ODF) by the Indian government. A Quality Council of India (QCI) inspectorate visited the city to check its sanitation facilities. This followed a series of efforts by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to boost access to sanitation in the Telangana state capital. The measures included the …
India’s environmental performance is one of the worst in the world. On environmental health, it’s the worst. A global index places India 177th place in a list of 180 countries ranked on their environmental performance. Only the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bangladesh and Burundi place lower. The Economic Performance Index (EPI) measures rankings against …
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Haryana state officials and hospital representatives reportedly showed strong interest when a visiting Taiwanese delegation gave an overview of Taiwan’s universal health care system, launched in 1995, and its use of IC cards. The Taiwanese health care system is regarded as having improved significantly since the adoption of universal healthcare. One key feature of this …
Around 40,000 private hospitals closed in protest against Karnataka’s proposed amendments to a medical bill to fix costs for private hospitals. The protest took place on Friday, November 3. An estimated 50,000 doctors across the state of Karnataka left duties in defiance of what they perceive as a penalisation of private doctors. “Doctors from across …
Pollution kills millions worldwide every year. In 2015, India witnessed 1.1 million pollution-related deaths. The vast majority of these deaths were borne by the country’s rural population, a new study suggests. “A pan-Indian problem” 75 percent of the 1.1 million pollution-related deaths which took place in India in 2015 took place in rural areas. Exposure …
Pneumonia, a disease that is, for the most part, preventable through vaccination, kills a child aged under five every two minutes in India claim doctors from the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Around 3.6 million episodes of the disease occurred in children under five over the course of a year in India. This was revealed during …
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A future health crisis grows in Delhi as recent surveys find 20 percent of schoolchildren in the national capital suffer from obesity. The findings indicate Delhi’s burden of noncommunicable disease (NCD) is set to rise – a trend observed across India, where a combination of sedentary lifestyles and poor habits are increasing the prevalence of …
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