World Cancer Day | Northeast India has high burden of cancer: ICMR-NCDIR
World Cancer Day | Northeast India has high burden of cancer: ICMR-NCDIR
The report by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR) stated that the number of new cancer cases in the Northeast region (NER) is likely to increase to 57,131 by 2025
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Probability of developing cancer over a lifetime is as high as one in every four men and one in every six women in Kamrup Urban of Assam. This was revealed in a report titled, Profile of cancer and related health indicators in the Northeast Region of India . The report is a collaborative study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru.
The state recorded 1.4 lakh air pollution-linked deaths while UP recorded the highest with 3.5 lakh deaths
MUMBAI: Maharashtra, which has safer air parameters than many north Indian states, is second in the statewise list of premature deaths due to air pollution in 2019. The state recorded 1.4 lakh air pollution-linked deaths while UP recorded the highest with 3.5 lakh deaths. The all-India figure is 17 lakh deaths 18% of all the fatalities in 2019; corresponding percentage for state is 16.7.
Air pollution robs state’s GDP of nearly Rs 7,200cr
Maharashtra is second in the country after Uttar Pradesh on premature deaths caused by air pollution in 2019. The finding is part of a scientific paper published by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in The Lancet Planetary Health. The study was conducted for ICMR’s State-Level Disease Burden Initiative along with Public Health Foundation of India and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
“Besides a roughly estimated expenditure of 0.4 per cent of the GDP on treatment of air pollution-related diseases, the health and economic impact of air pollution is highest in the less developed states of India, an inequity that should be addressed,” Prof Lalit Dandona, Director of the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative, who is National Chair of Population Health at ICMR, Professor at PHFI, and senior author of this paper told The Indian Express
Dandona pointed out that the high burden of death and disease due to air pollution and its adverse economic impact from loss of output could impede India’s aspiration to be a $5-trillion economy by 2024.
Deaths, diseases attributed to air pollution in India led to 1.4% GDP loss in 2019: Study
The findings in the paper highlight that while the disease burden due to household air pollution is reducing in India, the same has increased due to ambient outdoor air pollution. Updated: December 22, 2020 11:18:39 pm
The findings reported in the paper are part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.(Representational)
As many as 1.7 million deaths in India 18 per cent of the total deaths in the country were attributable to air pollution in 2019. The economic impact of this health loss due to lost productivity was huge, resulting in 1.4 per cent loss in the country’s GDP in 2019, which is equivalent to Rs 260,000 crore (US$ 36.8 billion), a new study has said.
ICMR chief Balram Bhargava tests positive for Covid-19
ICMR chief Balram Bhargava has tested positive for Covid-19.
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UPDATED: December 18, 2020 17:22 IST
File photo of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) DG Dr Balram Bhargava addressing a press conference in New Delhi Tuesday. (Photo | PTI)
Prof Balram Bhargava, the director-general of the Indian Council for Medical Research, has tested positive for Covid-19. According to reports, he has been hospitalised at the AIIMS Trauma Centre a dedicated Covid-19 facility.
No further information related to Prof Bhargava’s health was available at the time of filing this report.
Prof Balram Bhargava heads the apex body for Covid-19 outbreak management in India and is overseeing all aspects related to the disease’s management, cure as well as vaccine. He is also Secretary, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Prof Bhargava is the recipient of Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award