Malaria kills 20 times what govt claims
Kounteya Sinha TNN
New Delhi: India will soon revise its malaria mortality figures, with the new estimates expected to be at least 20 times more than what the health ministry claims at present.
A panel of the Indian
Council of Medical Research (ICMR), headed by its ex-director general Dr Padam Singh Pradhan, has pegged the actual number of malaria deaths at 40,297 — nearly 40 times higher than present estimates. India’s National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme chief Dr A C Dhariwal seconded Dr Pradhan, in a first such admission. ‘46k Indians died due to malaria in ’10’ A committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), headed by its ex-director general Dr Padam Singh Pradhan said that the National Institute of Medical Statistics was validating the methodology used by the Padam Singh committee following which the malaria mortality figures would be revised. “It will not be 40 times higher as portrayed by the ICMR committee. It could be 20-30 times more,” Dr Dhariwal said.
Kounteya Sinha TNN
New Delhi: India will soon revise its malaria mortality figures, with the new estimates expected to be at least 20 times more than what the health ministry claims at present.
A panel of the Indian
Council of Medical Research (ICMR), headed by its ex-director general Dr Padam Singh Pradhan, has pegged the actual number of malaria deaths at 40,297 — nearly 40 times higher than present estimates. India’s National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme chief Dr A C Dhariwal seconded Dr Pradhan, in a first such admission. ‘46k Indians died due to malaria in ’10’ A committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), headed by its ex-director general Dr Padam Singh Pradhan said that the National Institute of Medical Statistics was validating the methodology used by the Padam Singh committee following which the malaria mortality figures would be revised. “It will not be 40 times higher as portrayed by the ICMR committee. It could be 20-30 times more,” Dr Dhariwal said.
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