Thursday, November 03, 2016

India in the limelight ?

 We  are so proud of India's emerging economy. We want to be in the same playing field as the  big boys ,look at NSG, BRICS,

But are we really in that field or  still  stuck in that  old and  forgotten  field of developing  countries .

when looking at  the rampant  infectious disease epidemics  resurgence in Urban and  rural India  I doubt  we  are in the  same  field as the big boys.
let us  rebuild the  public health infrastructure  which has fallen in to disuse due to  neglect corruption and  sheer  apathy and  laziness of us Indians
All countries in the WHO South-East Asia region introduced measles vaccine in their immunization programs during the 1980s. Subsequent to the global measles elimination initiative, the reported immunization coverage increased in the region from 1999 to 2005 http://jidoxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S421.full#ref-3

 As a consequence, the estimated number of cases decreased by 27% from1999 to 2005 
Four countries in the region have already initiated surveillance for measles elimination. However, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Timor Leste, and Nepal still face challenges in measles control. In 2005, in these countries, the reported coverage ranged between 48%–81% and the annual incidence was .15–2.7 cases per million people, respectively

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