MUMBAI: The rising well being challenges confronted by metropolis residents over the previous decade are the topic of a report launched by the Praja Basis on Thursday. The NGO has listed the 5 illnesses within the metropolis with the very best variety of instances reported between 2014 and 2023: diarrhea (9,36,061 instances), tuberculosis (three,89,803), hypertension (three,70,795), diabetes (three,70,081) and dengue fever (1,39,892) and emphasised that these circumstances underscore a important want to enhance public well being measures and infrastructure within the metropolis.
One of the crucial worrying developments is the rise in deaths as a consequence of life-style illnesses, significantly diabetes. Milind Mhaske, CEO of Praja Basis, noticed a staggering 485% rise in diabetes-related deaths, from 2,428 in 2014 to 14,207 in 2022. This statistic positions diabetes because the main explanation for demise in Mumbai, surpassing to conventional infectious illnesses.
Along with life-style illnesses, respiratory issues have grow to be a major well being downside. Mumbai's air high quality has progressively deteriorated, with the common air high quality index (AQI) falling from “passable” (51-100) in 2019 to “reasonable” (101-200) in 2022. In line with Eknath Pawar , affiliate supervisor of Capability Improvement. In Praja, main respiratory illnesses and respiratory tuberculosis contributed to greater than 47,000 deaths between 2019 and 2022. In 2023, not a single month recorded air high quality within the “Good” class.
“This pattern emphasizes the significance of adhering to the City and Regional Improvement Plan Formulation and Implementation (URDPFI) tips set by the Ministry of Housing and City Affairs,” Mhaske mentioned. He highlighted that the present Mumbai Improvement Plan (2014-2034) falls quick, because it provides solely three sq. meters of open area per individual, far beneath the really helpful 10 sq. meters that favor bodily exercise and public well-being.
The report highlighted that in 2023, no civic ward in Mumbai met the URDPF criterion of 1 dispensary per 15,000 inhabitants. Whereas Mumbai has 191 municipal dispensaries, solely 95% function seven hours a day. To ease the strain, 207 Hindu Hruday Samrat Balasaheb Thackeray (HBT) clinics have been launched in 2022. Nonetheless, only some function prolonged hours, and solely 6% are open 14 hours a day.