National Health Profile (NHP) 2015

Predictions on cancer 

• 20 per cent jump over the next 5 years, with the increase being higher in women than in men.
• In men - Mouth cancer registering the highest spike despite country wide ban on Gutkha
• In women - Bladder cancer showing the sharpest increase
• Prostate cancer, liver cancer and lung cancer all increasing

Statistics

• Number of doctors and others (Approximate)
• Allopathic - 10 million
• AYUSH - 7 Lac
• Dentists - 1.5 Lac
• Nurses - 25 Lac
• Pharmacists - 6 lac
• One govt doctor for 11000 people
• Number of Hospital Beds
• Rural - about 2 lac
• Urban - about 5 lac
• One govt hospital bed serves 2000 people
• Incidence of Disease (Comparison between 2013 and 2014)
• Increased
• Malaria by 25%
• AES - 25%
• Kala Azar Doubled!
• JE - by 50%
• Diarrhoea, Typhoid, acute respiratory Infection - all increased
• Decreased
• Chickungunya 

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