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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Vaccination rates among India's rich have dropped, the national family health survey shows -Nayantara Narayanan

Vaccination rates among India's rich have dropped, the national family health survey shows -Nayantara Narayanan

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Meanwhile, 55% of all Indians do not go to public hospitals to seek treatment.

In 2017, India saw much uproar over the state of health facilities and medical services in the country. Rumours about vaccine safety dogged immunisation campaigns in some states, child deaths in government hospitals have raised questions about the state of public health facilities across the country, and large corporate hospitals have come under the scanner for negligence and overbilling.

These events might well be indications that the state of healthcare in India has not improved much in the last decade.

The newly released National Family Health Survey data – the first comprehensive set of health data for India in 10 years – has a breakdown of the health parameters in which progress has been made and those where the country, or sections of the country, are lagging behind.

One of the more alarming public health trends that the NFHS 4 reveals is the slowdown and stagnation of immunisation rates in some communities. The percentage of children who have been fully immunised increased from 44% in 2005-’06 to 62% in 2015-’16. Full immunisation means that the child has received the BCG, measles, and three doses each of DPT and polio vaccines. However, progress has been uneven. Vaccination coverage has grown only by six percentage points in urban India in the last 10 years while it has grown by 22% in rural areas. While there have been 29% more vaccinations among the poorest one-fifth of the population, full immunisation among the wealthiest one-fifth has actually fallen slightly.

Meanwhile, an increasing proportion of children across economic groups, castes, religious commnities, and urban and rural populations have received no vaccines whatsoever.

These broad trends do not bode well for the government’s aim under the renewed immunisation programme Intensified Mission Indradhanush to achieve 90% full immunisation coverage by the end of 2018.

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Scroll.in, 14 January, 2018, https://scroll.in/pulse/864925/more-unvaccinated-children-more-c-sections-takeaways-from-new-national-family-health-data


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