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'Health in India’ report
Why is it in news?
- The ‘Health in India’ report recently published by the National Statistical Organisation (NSO).
- The report is based on the 75th round of the National Sample Survey (July 2017-June 2018) on household social consumption related to health.
Findings of the Report:
- Two out of five children do not complete their immunisation programme.
- Most of these children remain unprotected against measles, and partially protected against a range of other diseases.
- In the national capital, less than half of all children have been given all eight required vaccines.
- Only 58% got their polio booster dose, while 54% got their DPT booster dose.
- Among States, Manipur (75%), Andhra Pradesh (73.6%) and Mizoram (73.4%) recorded the highest rates of full immunisation.
- At the other end of the spectrum lies Nagaland, where only 12% of children received all vaccinations, followed by Puducherry (34%) and Tripura (39.6%).
Contradictions in Data:
- Across the country, only 59.2% of children under five years are fully immunised, according to the NSO report.
- This contradicts the Centre’s Health Management Information System portal data, which claimed that full immunisation coverage for 2017-18 stood at 86.7%.
- Full immunisation means that a child receives a cocktail of eight vaccine doses in the first year of life.