Health
The key findings of the Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 (released in October 2022) by World Health Organization are as follows (please click here and here to access): India-specific findings • The case notifications of people newly diagnosed with TB in India were 16,67,136 in 2015, 17,63,876 in 2016, 16,49,694 in 2017, 19,08,683 in 2018, 21,62,323 in 2019, 16,29,301 in 2020, and…
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KEY TRENDS • The 2019 India TB report says that the country accounted for a quarter of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden with an estimated 27 lakh cases in 2018. In 2018, the country was able to achieve a total notification of 21.5 lakh TB cases, of which 25 percent was from private sector. Majority of the TB burden is among the…
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The key findings of the Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 (released in October 2022) by World Health Organization are as follows (please click here and here to access): India-specific findings • The case notifications of people newly diagnosed with TB in India were 16,67,136 in 2015, 17,63,876 in 2016, 16,49,694 in 2017, 19,08,683 in 2018, 21,62,323 in 2019, 16,29,301 in 2020, and…
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The key findings of the report titled Rural Health Statistics 2020-21 (released in May 2022), which has been prepared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, are as follows (please click here to access): • As on 31st March, 2021, there were 1,56,101 and 1,718 Sub Centres (SCs), 25,140 and 5,439 Primary Health Centres (PHCs), and 5,481…
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The key findings of the report titled India TB Report 2022: Coming Together to End TB Altogether (released in March 2022), which has been produced by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, are as follows (please click here to access): • As per the Global TB Report 2021, the estimated incidence of all forms of TB in…
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Kindly click here and here to access the Press release by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan dated February 2, 2022 on the Union Health Budget 2022-23. — The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated families and communities and disrupted societies and economies. Patients had to endure various indignities in both public and private hospitals without protections or recourse to adequate preventive and redressal mechanisms. While…
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The report titled ‘COVID-19 Third Wave Preparedness: Children’s Vulnerability and Recovery’ (released on 2nd August, 2021) is the outcome of a two-part series of online consultative meetings hosted by National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM, Delhi). These working group consultative meetings largely included stakeholders from diverse backgrounds — Central Government, State Governments, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), social…
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Please click here to access the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on COVID-19 Containment and Management in Peri-urban, Rural and Tribal areas dated 16th May, 2021. The SOP was issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. — The key findings of the report titled Rural Health Statistics 2019-20 (released in April 2021), which has been prepared by the Ministry…
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Kindly click here to access the India Fact Sheet of Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) — Wave-1 (released in 2021), An Investigation of Health, Economic, and Social Well-being of India’s Growing Elderly Population, India Report 2020, prepared by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), National Programme for Health Care Elderly (NPHCE), Harvard TH Chan School of Public…
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