13 Amazing Facts about Health

🌕 India accounts for one-fifth i.e 20 per cent of neonatal deaths.

🌕 Over 20 percent of neonatal deaths can be prevented if the child is breastfed. Only less than 55 percent babies are breastfed in the country.

🌕 India is home to the largest number of malnourished children in the world.

🌕 According to WHO, India has merely 0.9 beds for every 1000 Indians far below WHO's recommendation of 1.9 beds for every 1000 population.

🌕 India has 20.6 health workers per 10,000 people, as shown in a study by National Sample Survey

Organisation. While it is less than the World health

Organization’s minimum threshold of 22.8, the numbers have increased from 19 health workers per 10000 people in 2012.

🌕 Rural areas with nearly 71% of India's population have only 36% of health workers.

🌕 According to NFHS – 35 % of children are malnourished and 39% of children are stunted in India.

🌕 The present ratio of doctors in urban and rural India is 3.8 : 1

🌕 India is home to over 40 million stunted and 17 million wasted children (under-five years).

🌕 The distribution of health workers in India is uneven between urban and rural areas. Rural areas with nearly 70% of India's population have only 36% of health workers.

🌕 According to the WHO, in 2017, there were an estimated 4.5 lakh people across the world with MDR-TB, of which India accounted for 24%.

🌕 As of now, the country spends 1.15 per cent of the GDP on health, India is set to increase its public health spending to 2.5 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025.

🌕 India currently spends a little over 1% of GDP on health, far below Singapore which has the lowest public spend on health at 2.2% of GDP among countries with significant universal health coverage (UHC) service, according to latest National Health Profile (NHP) 2018.

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