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World Health Day: 6 common issues afflicting India

An infant accepts a bottle of medicine from a doctor at a Mohalla Clinic in Todapur village in Delhi. Infant mortality rate in India was forty per thousand live births, a very high rate, owed to very restricted access to neonatal care in rural areas. (Vageesh LalL/HT Photo)

Updated on: Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM IST

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An infant accepts a bottle of medicine from a doctor at a Mohalla Clinic in Todapur village in Delhi. Infant mortality rate in India was forty per thousand live births, a very high rate, owed to very restricted access to neonatal care in rural areas. (Vageesh LalL/HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM

An infant accepts a bottle of medicine from a doctor at a Mohalla Clinic in Todapur village in Delhi. Infant mortality rate in India was forty per thousand live births, a very high rate, owed to very restricted access to neonatal care in rural areas. (Vageesh LalL/HT Photo)

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People seen filling drinking water from a tanker at a slum during a water crisis in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. According to a WHO charter, clean water will control the spread of cholera, typhoid, dysentery which affect the our population, especially the rural poor in large numbers. (Ravi Choudhary/ht photo)

Updated on Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM

People seen filling drinking water from a tanker at a slum during a water crisis in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. According to a WHO charter, clean water will control the spread of cholera, typhoid, dysentery which affect the our population, especially the rural poor in large numbers. (Ravi Choudhary/ht photo)

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Garbage blocks a main road in East Delhi during a sanitation workers strike. Poor Sanitation as a public health hazard is problem endemic in our country. WHO states it as one the largest issues facing public health in India. (Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM

Garbage blocks a main road in East Delhi during a sanitation workers strike. Poor Sanitation as a public health hazard is problem endemic in our country. WHO states it as one the largest issues facing public health in India. (Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

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Mohalla Clinics have extended the reach of health service to a demographic of people who need it the most in a city-state such as Delhi. The reach of health care in India is still lacking but strides in the right direction are being made by the government and NGOs alike. (Vageesh Lall/ht photo)

Updated on Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM

Mohalla Clinics have extended the reach of health service to a demographic of people who need it the most in a city-state such as Delhi. The reach of health care in India is still lacking but strides in the right direction are being made by the government and NGOs alike. (Vageesh Lall/ht photo)

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The hands of a man eating alms by the roadside. With 25% of all hungry people of the world living in India, malnutrition plagues the country. An estimated 194.6 million people in India are undernourished with 44% of children underweight and 72% infants anaemic. (Vageesh Lall/ht photo)

Updated on Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM

The hands of a man eating alms by the roadside. With 25% of all hungry people of the world living in India, malnutrition plagues the country. An estimated 194.6 million people in India are undernourished with 44% of children underweight and 72% infants anaemic. (Vageesh Lall/ht photo)

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An anganwadi worker conducts a health checkup on a child in Bhopal. Anganwadis have been at the forefront of vaccination drives including the massive effort made towards vaccination against polio. As no new cases of polio were identified in India in the last two years, it is an effort that has come to fruition. (mujeeb faruqui/ht photo)

Updated on Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM

An anganwadi worker conducts a health checkup on a child in Bhopal. Anganwadis have been at the forefront of vaccination drives including the massive effort made towards vaccination against polio. As no new cases of polio were identified in India in the last two years, it is an effort that has come to fruition. (mujeeb faruqui/ht photo)

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A young girl gets her tongue checked for cleanliness at a health center in Delhi. With the onset of summer comes a wave of infectious diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid and the likes which spread very fast in our densely populated country especially in the urban outskirts of major cities. (Vageesh Lall/ht photo)

Updated on Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM

A young girl gets her tongue checked for cleanliness at a health center in Delhi. With the onset of summer comes a wave of infectious diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid and the likes which spread very fast in our densely populated country especially in the urban outskirts of major cities. (Vageesh Lall/ht photo)

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Elderly patients at a Primary Health Centre in taluka Khed-Shivapur, Pune. The primary health centre initiative has gotten care to a lot of areas in rural India. Another positive step they can take is to educate residents of the area of simple hygiene, sanitation and nutritional practices that can make their lives healthier. (soumitra ghosh/ht photo)

Updated on Apr 07, 2017 7:30 PM

Elderly patients at a Primary Health Centre in taluka Khed-Shivapur, Pune. The primary health centre initiative has gotten care to a lot of areas in rural India. Another positive step they can take is to educate residents of the area of simple hygiene, sanitation and nutritional practices that can make their lives healthier. (soumitra ghosh/ht photo)

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