Heart diseases are India’s biggest killers. In 2016, 28.1 percent of all deaths were due to cardiovascular ailments. Yet, despite losing 1.7 million lives to heart disease every year, India does not have enough cardiologists to manage the burden. “India needs 88,000 cardiologists. It has just 4,000.” India needs 88,000 cardiologists. It has just 4,000. By …
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Kerala is reporting a host of diseases that are becoming far more prevalent in recent years. Many were almost entirely unreported within the state. Others were simply less common. The increased prevalence of these diseases may indicate diseases from other states are spreading to Kerala. In the case of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) there may be …
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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The Union Health Ministry has pledged to increase funding for the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These lifestyle related conditions include illnesses such as asthma, cancer, diabetes and heart disease. The prevalence of NCDs is rapidly increasing in India. As a result, their treatment now forms the priority of healthcare funding. For the 2017-18 period, …
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Heart disease is India’s biggest killer, accounting for 28.1 percent of all deaths in the country in 2016. Is diabetes fueling this crisis? Heart disease has numerous risk factors. One of the most common is diabetes. Factors such as a high sugar diet and obesity may contribute to the development of both heart disease and …
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Cancer cost India nearly $6.7 billion in lost productivity in 2012, a new study claims. This points towards the immense cost of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) not only to public health in the country, but to the economy. The total productivity loss in 2012 equated to 0.36 percent of India’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to …
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In a remarkable feat of Indian innovation, electrocardiograms (ECGs) may now become more readily available to those in rural environments. This has the potential diagnose many people who would otherwise unknowingly suffer from heart conditions, without the need to travel to specialist hospitals. Scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center — a group of individuals …
India is host to huge numbers of tropical diseases, predispositions to genetic disease, as well as many rare conditions that as of yet remain largely unstudied. With endless reports of outbreaks of infectious disease as well as fears of vector borne conditions such as the Zika virus arriving in the country it is understandable to …
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A three year old child from Pakistan has been treated in an Indian hospital for a rare heart condition known as Uhl’s anomaly. The successful treatment by Indian doctors has relieved the child of what would otherwise be a life threatening condition, allowing him to live a normal life. Despite constant disputes between India and …
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India’s first ever nutritional atlas goes live online, thanks to Telangana’s National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). An essential tool In an exclusive interview with Health Issues India, Dr M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao of the NIN says he hopes that the atlas will useful to “policy makers, programme managers, researchers, media, students and other stakeholders.” Given the …
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