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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Diseases linked to a degraded environment continue to ravage India -Vibha Varshney

Diseases linked to a degraded environment continue to ravage India -Vibha Varshney

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published Published on Oct 31, 2019   modified Modified on Oct 31, 2019
-Down to Earth

Despite the increasing burden respiratory infections and water borne disease, the budgetary allowance for health has steadily dipped in the last few years, according to the National Health Report

A degraded environment filled with air and water pollution continues to affect health of people in India, according to the National Health Report (NHP) released on October 31, 2019.

Air pollution-linked acute respiratory infections contributed 68.47 per cent to the morbidity burden in the country and also to highest mortality rate after pneumonia.

Acute diarrhoeal diseases, caused due to drinking contaminated water, caused the second highest morbidity at 21.83 per cent.

Cholera cases went up to 651 in 2018 from 508 in 2017, the report showed. Uttar Pradesh followed by Delhi and West Bengal had the highest cases. Cases of typhoid went up to 23,08,537 in 2018 from 22,64,453 in 2017. The data for 2018 is provisional.

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Down to Earth, 31 October, 2019, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/diseases-linked-to-a-degraded-environment-continue-to-ravage-india-67520?fbclid=IwAR1tBZiJjTjYraoNC0PQr8CItkSDcSrBpxprxPsDVG


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