Tag: Communicable Diseases

Bhubaneswar: With the Niti Aayog – World Bank Health Index 2.0 sounding an alarm bell for the State on killer TB disease, the death toll due to TB in Odisha in 2017 (Niti Index’s reference year) had posted a near 14 per cent rise. Now, TB is taking an average 7 lives every 24 hours […]

Mysuru (Karnataka): President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday called for a multi-pronged approach to address the healthcare challenges due to the triple burden of communicable, non-communicable and emerging diseases in the country. “Though we have achieved a lot over the years, we are challenged by communicable, non-communicable and emerging diseases. We need to improve access […]

Bhubaneswar: When as many as eight die of tuberculosis (TB) in every 24 hours in Odisha, the diabolical omen for the State is the big drop in successful treatment rate last year. Odisha, which figured among the top-10 TB mortality states in country, has recorded a big drop in successful treatment to 59 per cent […]

Bhubaneswar: Here is a health alert for Odisha. Respiratory diseases are seemingly having their vice-like grip over the State. While pneumonia has emerged as a giant killer in the State since 2014, Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) topped in cases. The grip is quite telling as Odisha figured 5th in country in pneumonia-related mortalities in year […]