India's Great Challenge: Health & Sanitation - Page 5

India Is Failing Its Infants Long Before They Arrive At Hospital
A low birth weight baby at Sick New Born Care Unit, Kashida, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. The death of 70 infants...
In India’s Malaria Hotbed, A Remote, Tribal Village Fights Back
A health worker collects the blood sample of a child at mass screening for malaria at Budabirmaha, a hamlet in...

Heart Disease Kills 1.7 Million Indians, Continues To Be Top Killer in 2016
Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in India, killing 1.7 million Indians in 2016, according to the 2016...

India’s Child & Neonatal Mortality Rates Lag World, Disease Prevalence Among World’s Highest
Six million fewer children died in 2016 than in 1990. That’s more than the total number of children in France. ...

In 3 Years, Cancer Rate Rises Up To 4 Times Faster Than National Rate In Small Provinces
A young cancer patient rests in the children's ward at the Cancer Centre Welfare Home and Research Institute in Kolkata....

27 Regional Hubs, 300 Hospitals, Yet Patients Journey To 1 Mumbai Cancer Centre
1 million are diagnosed with cancer every year; 680,000 of them die. India’s cancer burden to rise 70% by 2035. ...

Swine Flu Cases Rise 9-Fold As India’s Response System Falters
People wearing masks wait in a queue for a H1N1 flu screening at a hospital in New Delhi. Mumbai: So far this...

In 2015, India Lost 2 Children Below Age 5 Every Minute
Nearly 1.08 million Indian children under the age of five years died in 2015--that’s 2,959 deaths every day or two each...
